The grey men in the brown grass on the hills crouched behind their ditches and stone walls, gripped their guns and waited for the foe to walk into the trap their commanders had set.
He registered a solemn promise with God that if the great Confederate Commanders succeeded in making good their retreat from this desperate situation he would remove McClellan.
The keen eyes of the Confederate Commandershad planted their right and left flanking lines to pour death into these ranks no matter how high their corpses were piled.
When the wide field of operations is taken into account, the two narratives of the rival commanders agree to a surprising extent as to the events of the early stages of the action.
Both commanders have published their detailed accounts, and there is no longer any reason for uncertainty as to the essentials of the action.
Both commanders are consequently on record in agreement as to the reason for no new battle of fleets.
In fact none of the British commanders realized what had taken place under cover of that smoke screen.
They're going to surrender," said Pepperell to Elizabeth, as the two commanders bowed, and passed on hastily.
After a few hasty orders, by which truce succeeded war, the commanders were seated in Pepperell's tent, their voices seeming to themselves to ring out strangely in the silence about them.
In the tumult of applause that followed this appeal the commanders turned toward one another.
The electric ships rapidly assembled and hovered high in the air, while their commanders consulted about what should be done.
Several of the electric ships had been hovering above us during the fight, their commanders being apparently uncertain how to act--fearful, perhaps, of injuring us in the attempt to smite our enemy.
The employment of commanders from the military families raised in them an ambition to share in the powers of government.
They naturally attached themselves to the military commanders who led them in their various expeditions, and thus were in time regarded as the standing troops of the empire.
Wherever it was necessary to send military expeditions against the barbarians of the north, or rebels in Kyūshū, or into the disaffected districts of Korea, commanders were selected from families devoted to military service.
This growth of a military class, whose commanders were restless and ambitious, gradually undermined the authority which the Fujiwara up to the tenth century had almost unrestrictedly exercised.
The dissensions between the commanders had by this time reached such a point that they determined to separate.
The two commanders met at Appomattox Court House, a sleepy Virginian village, five miles from the railroad and endless miles from the great world.
Four days afterwards, General Wadsworth of New York, a gallant fighter, one of the corps commanders who had tried to spur the too-prudent Meade into attacking, came to the White House.
Lieutenant Greer, ride to the Three Corners, and have the regimental commanders close all gaps in the line; in case of attack we must be able to exhibit a solid front.
He was strangely unlike the commanders of his time in many respects, though as a matter of course he was, when he saw fit to follow the accepted rules, equal to any in careful and methodical strategy.
Saith Cherias: Does not Jupiter distribute to the gods their proportion and share sparingly and severally, as Agamemnon did to his commanders when his guests pledged one another?
The Assault Continues With the dawn of a new day, the two opposing commanders at Peleliu awoke from whatever sleep they may have gotten to face immediate grim prospects.
All Marine commanders had been alerted to the Japanese capability to make an armored attack on D-Day, and were well prepared.
The III Corps plan tasked the 81st Division to reinforce the Marines in seizing Peleliu and then to relieve the 1st Marine Division for the mop up, but the general continued to exhort his commanders to “hurry up.
First, he ordered the division reconnaissance company ashore, then, pressing commanders already on the island, he ordered his one remaining uncommitted infantry battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Spencer S.
Sidebar (page 2): The Divisions and their Commanders The Peleliu operation was to be conducted by two divisions, one Marine and one Army.
As he had earlier expressed himself in the presence of the corps and division commanders visiting his regimental CP, Harris continued with his policy to “be lavish with ammunition and stingy with .
The fact that cavalry patrols are known to be posted in a certain direction does not relieve infantry commanders of the responsibility for reconnaissance and security.
The platoon commanders will then go along their platoons and point out any mistakes.
If the post commander, for instance, requires the company commandersto do their full duty, they will require their noncommissioned officers to do their full duty, and the noncommissioned officers will in turn require the men to do the same.
An understanding between artillery and infantry commanders should be had, so as to effect the movement to the best advantage.
Charge to be made with approval of commander of attacking line; battalion commanders signal commander of line when ready to charge; charge to be made simultaneously.
By means of combat exercises, the unitcommanders are trained and instructed in applying tactical principles, in controlling and directing the fire of their units and the men are trained and instructed in fire discipline.
Companies or designated subdivisions and detachments are conducted by their commanders in such manner as best to accomplish the mission assigned to them under the major's orders.
Majors and commandersof units larger than a battalion repeat such commands of their superiors as are to be executed by their units, facing their units for that purpose.
NOTE: Some company commanders follow, for moral effect, the practice of publishing to their companies all summary court convictions of soldiers belonging to the organization.
Instead of sinking merchant vessels on sight and without warning, thecommanders of submarines stopped them, visited and searched them, and gave the passengers and crews opportunity to escape.
The whole of the West Riding was lost, and the commanders forced to take refuge in Hull.
The commanders excused themselves from moving, on the plea that the Fairfaxes did not need their help.
Cromwell once more called on the local commanders to gather their forces, not for an attack on Newark, but for a march into Yorkshire to the relief of the Fairfaxes.
We can sympathise with Lilburne now in his desire to establish government by the people, to confirm individual right, and to restrain the commanders of the army from political power.
They rank with the most famous commanders that ever led armies to victory.
The men had confidence in their commanders and were responsive to their genius.
After a brief consultation between the commanders of the two brigades I was ordered to ride back quickly to Heth's headquarters, report the condition of affairs, and bring back his instructions.
The town was believed by both of the belligerents to be impervious to attack from the land, and the Spanish commanders therefore dispatched a naval force to conquer it from the sea.
But Lopez was too high a type of gentleman to mete out to the Spanish high commanders the fate to which they would too gladly have consigned him.
He showed me reports from his district commanders which substantially anticipated his order.
In '79 most of his old commanders were still alive, and they had planned to assemble in Chicago to do him honor.
Their activity and energy was such that the opposing commanders seemed for the time being quite unable to cope with them, and the American detachments were routed and scattered in quick succession.
Riders spurring in hot haste brought word to the king's commanders that the backwater men had come over the mountains.
Nor could the white commanders keep the frontiersmen from themselves settling within the acknowledged boundaries of the Indian territory.
The commanders elected their own chief without regard to rank or seniority; in fact the officer [Footnote: Williams.
Still, everybody gets there somehow, and in due course the various Company Commanders are enabled to telephone to their respective Battalion Headquarters the information that the Relief is completed.
After that the Commanding Officers and Company Commandersof the incoming battalions visit their own particular section of the line.
Similar disclosures, which were at the same time made from other quarters, left no room for farther doubt; and the sudden change of the commanders in Austria and Silesia, appeared to be the prelude to some important enterprise.
Wallenstein had now effected his purpose; but the unexpected resistance he had met with from the commanders roused him at last from the fond illusions in which he had hitherto indulged.
Familiar with the tactics of Greece and Rome, he had discovered a more effective system of warfare, which was adopted as a model by the most eminent commanders of subsequent times.
Preparatory to taking the last decisive step, he, in January 1634, called a meeting of all the commanders of the army at Pilsen, whither he had marched after his retreat from Bavaria.
But this crowd of commanders and armies was the very means of saving this province to the Emperor; for the jealousy of the generals, and the mutual hatred of the Saxons and the Swedes, never allowed them to act with unanimity.
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