The third line, about four hundred yards in the rear of the second, was composed of Continental troops or regulars; those of Virginia under General Huger on the right, those of Maryland under Colonel Williams on the left.
The enemy pressed with increasing ardor against the third line, composed of Continental troops, and supported by Colonel Washington's dragoons and Kirkwood's Delawares.
They were finally removed to Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, and guarded by Continental troops.
The militia in every part of the Union, fatigued and worn out by repeated tours of duty, required to be relieved by continental troops.
Something more than one thousand were continental troops, part of whom were new levies; the rest were militia.
General Elbert and his small band of continental troops, aided by one regiment of North Carolina militia, were soon overpowered by numbers, and the survivors were compelled to surrender themselves prisoners of war.
General Woodford, who had marched from Morristown in December, entered the town with the old continental troops of the Virginia line, now reduced to seven hundred effectives.
As there is no protection to be expected from the authority of the State for an honest man, I am under the necessity of requesting Congress to order me a guard of Continental troops.
A small regiment only of Continental troops with a few militia was attached to his command, and although in a military point of view the post had little responsibility, yet in other respects its duties were delicate and difficult.
The Count says he will stand a storm; but if the enemy wanted to make a long work of it that a corps of Continental troops in their rear would have the best effects.
A circular letter was sent by Washington to the Eastern Legislatures, and to that of New Jersey, requesting them to supply as large a quota of Continental troops as possible.
Colonel Ichabod Alden, of Massachusetts, was in command of the fort there, with about two hundred and fifty Continental troops.
Young Williams had accompanied the Connecticut Continental troops to New York, taking with him a supply of articles adapted to the use of the army.
And a clause in the act passed, enacts, "that there shall be set apart a sufficient number of slaves to raise the quota of continental troops required of this state.
When fort Cornwallis surrendered, no exertions could have saved Colonel Brown, had he not been sent to Savannah protected by a guard of continental troops.
The last reinforcements of continental troops arrived in camp about this time, and added both courage and strength to the army.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "continental troops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
