By virtue of the treaties, however, all contingents save those of Bavaria, Saxony, and Württemburg are administered precisely as if they comprised integral parts of the Prussian establishment.
In this manner Prussia acquired the right to recruit, drill, and officer the contingents of twenty-one states--a right which appreciably increased her already preponderant authority in all matters of a military character.
The Netherland allies brought large contingents and took high pay from the king, but they showed neither energy nor enthusiasm in his cause.
He says that he had found that there were usually British contingents in the ranks of the hostile Gauls, and that he thought it advisable to cow the islanders.
The nobles present were exasperated at being placed under a mere knight, whose only distinction was that he was his master’s favourite, and the army became an incoherent mass of ill-disciplined contingents without a responsible head.
The contingents of the provinces were governed by Persian generals, who were mainly taken from the members of the royal family, the "kinsmen" of the king, and the tribal princes.
The Ionians had remained, though they had not kept all thecontingents with them.
In return for this sudden and voluntary submission they were allowed to remain at the head of the cities; they were only to pay tribute and furnish contingents in war.
From the Persians were first and chiefly elected the captains of the armies, the commanders of the contingents which the subject nations had to furnish, and the viceroys who governed the conquered provinces.
The mass of the cavalry was generally placed on the wings; between these and the centre were the contingents of the subject nations, each according to its divisions, which were drawn up separately in solid squares.
Unasked, they clamoured loudly to participate in the struggle, and while for the time being our own citizen soldiers were not accepted, contingents of splendid men were welcomed from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
They appear in Irish battles only as contingents to the native armies--led by their own leaders and recognized as a separate, but subordinate force.
The monarch marched southward to meet his assailants, with his own proper troops, and the contingents of Connaught under Cathel, Prince of that Province, and those of Leinster under the lead of Kerball, their king.
And measurements of Eskimo lower jaws in general show that this breadth in the western contingents is not exceptional.
The Australia passed on her way to the Atlantic, across which the Canadian contingents were in need of convoy, and the supervision of the Dresden search devolved upon Admiral Stoddart of the Carnarvon.
The Christian army consisted of the feudatories of the kingdom of Jerusalem, numerous small contingents of European crusaders and the military orders, and contingents from Egypt, Turkestan, Syria and Mesopotamia fought under Saladin.
In the Second Punic war Alba at first remained faithful, but afterwards refused to send contingentsand was punished.
In Central India the disturbance was universal, and the contingents of native princes burst into open hostility.
His army was swelled by contingents of allied states, and the command of it was given to Soult, Davoust, and Ney; the familiarity of his old generals having by this time offended his pride.
So evident was this, that in October Henry again advanced, with the contingents of no fewer than twenty-two counties.
About sixty feet separated the two contingents at this time, the Chehalis men still continuing the march.
Lieutenant Cormier of the secret committee was riding between the two contingents on a bay horse.
The over-plus of the younger cattle were cut back, and the contingents were tendered on delivery.
Forrest's outfit arrived that evening, and without even a day's rest arrangements were made to receive the two contingents the next morning.
Priest had secured, among a few friends and the few herds with which he came in contact, scarcely half that number, and still the twocontingents made a very material increase to the new ranch.
By shipping the different contingents separately, the brothers were enabled to know the situation at all times.
Joel and Dell had never dreamed of a further increase to the ranch stock, and Forrest had timed the corralling of the original and late contingents as the climax of the day's work.
The two contingents were thrown together, the brothers nursed them in to the new tanks, where they were freed on a perfect range.
Dell was kept on the move with bunches of cattle, or freighting the caches to the homestead, while Joel received the different contingents and scouted the threatened range.
By nature cattle are none too gregarious, as only under fear will they flock compactly, and the danger of splitting the herd into wandering contingents must be avoided.
As a matter of fact, it was high time to leave the coach, as some new contingents of revolutionaries had formed up in rank and file all along the highway to salute the provisional government and receive orders.
Vigorous promises of support came from the Saxon Erzgebirge, as well as announcements that armed contingents were forthcoming.
In Leipzig, volunteer student corps had mustered contingents for Dresden, which arrived amid the exultation of the populace.
This was the treaty which beguiled Bavaria from the French alliance, and made the German contingents in the French armies, the Saxons among the rest, wild for emancipation from a hated service.
The well-trained subordinate officers of these contingents were turned adrift by thousands on the same terms as those of Napoleon's own army, half-pay if they showed themselves good Catholics, otherwise nothing.
Porter and the other Europeans in the Maori contingents now for the first time witnessed the ancient process of smoke-drying human heads.
Kepa and Porter and their contingents had been nine days in the bush.
There were also to be reckoned the contingents of the different princes of Germany, so that the allied forces were computed grossly to amount to upwards of one million of men.
They will very soon be reinforced by regular troops from India, from Egypt, and the Mediterranean, and in due time by the contingents which our dominions are furnishing with such magnificent patriotism and liberality.
Berlin, Rhenish Westphalia, Upper Silesia and Saxony especially had to send their contingents in every direction, since the eastern provinces are more thinly settled and had to have a stronger guard for the borders immediately.
At the same time a defection of the subject princes deprived the Parthian monarch of contingents which usually swelled his numbers, and threw him upon the support of his own countrymen, chiefly or solely.
But from henceforth their fidelity to the Achaemenian Kings was unbroken; they paid their tribute (apparently) without reluctance, and furnished contingents of troops to the Persian armies when called upon.
Crassus was at this time showing the worst side of his character in Syria, despoiling temples of their treasures, and accepting money in lieu of contingents of troops from the dynasts of Syria and Palestine.
Every year brought fresh contingents from Holland, including also the commercial class, artisans, and even servants of both sexes, and agriculturists.
Carrington, was composed mainly of mounted contingents from the Colonies.
During a critical period the Natal Army was of as little use to Lord Roberts as were the Spanish contingents to Wellington in the Peninsula; and its laggard action retarded the progress of the war.
Reinforcements of "Zarps" from the Transvaal, and of contingents under Delarey and P.
On the voyage over in the Surrey I had prepared a scheme to submit to Lord Roberts for the organization and employment of the numerous mounted contingents that had been offered by Australia and New Zealand.
Just previous to leaving England by the Bremen I had been informed by the War Office, and by the Australian Governments I then represented, that they had offered contingents for service in South Africa to the Home Government.
I felt fairly certain of securing a position on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief in connexion with the mounted contingents of the Australian colonies, which were being so freely offered by all of them to the Mother Country.
Contingents of Federal Troops were raised, trained and dispatched to South Africa.
In preparing the tables of personnel as desired by the Commander-in-Chief, I restricted myself to the contingents that had already arrived and those on their way from the Australian Colonies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contingents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
