That Lance-Corporals Spencer and Stirling shall be granted the distinguished conduct medal without annuity, and promoted to the rank of Corporal, to be borne supernumerary till absorbed.
Corporals Lovegrove, Alden and a private were stationed at night on the exposed end to cut the lashings, so the bridge could be swung to the other shore by guy ropes, in case the enemy came down in force.
A detachment of one sergeant, three corporals and twenty-five privates from Company A, under command of Lieutenant Martin Burrell, Jr.
Coburn, of Company A, has under his command at that place: one sergeant, four corporals and thirty privates.
At Battery Gentilly, near this camp, I have a detachment of Company A, consisting of one commissioned officer, two sergeants, three corporals and twenty privates.
When he had recovered enough to move, Auguste followed Davis out of the village hall, to where the two corporals waited with horses in the silent street.
Davis led, followed by Auguste, the two corporals bringing up the rear.
Lieutenant Davis, have your corporals see that Mr. Wegner and Mr. Greenglove reach the town limits safely.
So be it," said Greenglove, handing the rifle to one of Jefferson Davis's corporals who had risen to bar his way.
As he fell into a stone heap, it is more than probable that he had some good reason for the movement--besides, why cannot Corporals suffer from wounds of that kind, frequently so fashionable among officers of higher grade?
The corporals were elected by the burghers after war was begun, and they held their posts only so long as their behaviour met with the favour of those who placed them in authority.
In numerous instances, officers' servants hold the rank of lance-corporals and they assume the same duties and authority of a butler.
It consisted of 102 privates, four mounted patrols, six sergeants and six corporals under the command of four officers, viz.
The force consisted then of 102 men, four mounted patrols, six sergeants, six corporals under the command of four officers.
Corporals stepped forward two paces, made two right turns, and stood facing the center of the patrol.
The Lieutenant, a tall, pretty girl of nineteen, then commanded, "Corporals from Patrols!
The Corporalsthen snapped out together, "Attention!
One of the corporals started to stand up and halt him, but wavered at the sight of the captain's star that was still pinned to his uniform.
The two corporals were at the door when Gordon threw it open, but they drew back at the sight of his drawn gun.
There was no one at the side entrance to Seventh Precinct Headquarters and only two corporals on duty inside; the rest were probably out fighting the Legals, or worrying about it.
Taking with him the corporals on duty the officer at once started for the fair, giving orders that each cadet seen was at once to be placed in arrest.
There were present on that occasion every cadet except the eight corporals on duty, who thought they were bound in honour not to leave their posts.
It was not till near the end of the half-year that it was discovered that one particular cadet had been placed in arrest by corporals on duty on an average four times a week from the commencement of the half-year.
The head of his room was a very good fellow, and not at all a bully; but that two cadets who had been smashed from corporals were in his division, and were "awful bullies.
After being inspected by an officer, parties of cadets were sent to various drills under soldiers who were corporals or sergeants.
The assembly was immediately sounded, and was obeyed only by the corporals on duty and two cadets who were ill, having just left hospital.
I was snugly concealed when I heard some old cadet ask one of the corporals of my division if there were any neuxes there not on leave.
Corporals were selected from amongst the cadets almost entirely in consequence of their position in the Academy--in fact, by seniority.
Corporals and sergeants are called "non-commissioned officers," because they receive a warrant from their colonel countersigned by the adjutant as authority of rank, in place of a commission from the President of the United States.
A sergeant's command is double that of a corporal, and on guard he divides his time in charge of the guard-house with another sergeant while overseeing the corporals and their reliefs.
The two Adjudants have under their immediate authority all the Sergeants and Corporals so far as the discipline and the general police of barracks are concerned.
Half an hour later the trumpeters sounded the reveille and immediately the various Corporals told off a certain number of men to go and clean the stables.
We accordingly sat down with about sixty of our guests, the Corporals and troopers of our companies.
Corporals get about twice as much, while Sergeants get about 4d.
The three Volontaires who obtained the first places were nominated Corporals after the examination.
Corporals are confined to barracks for slight breaches of discipline.
After the evening call, we entertained our respective Corporals at the canteen, most of them having to be supported back to their beds.
For more serious faults, especially when on duty, Corporals are sent to prison.
The order in which we were called was settled according to the numbers under which we had been enrolled, so that I came third on the list of troopers; the three Volontaires who had been made Corporals coming of course before the others.
To the above may be added hereafter, at the discretion of the Commanding General, four corporals and forty-two privates; thus increasing the strength to the maximum fixed by law for a company of infantry.
We returned into reserve, carrying one of my corporals who was wounded in the groin by a bullet that had passed right through it.
I hear one of my corporals swear when a bullet smashes the upper part of his arm.
I can only speak for my own section of course; but they have at least sent me two corporalsand a sergeant who seem to me sound, well-meaning sort of fellows.
I have to shout at the top of my voice to make the sergeant and corporals hear my orders.
And when I told the corporals to step forward and call out the rolls of their squads, voices responded which were not theirs.
The corporalsafter their morning's work have to carve.
He heard the corporals far down the line reporting, "All present.
He apologised to the corporals for kicking, striking, and otherwise abusing them, and thanked them for the service they had rendered him.
The corporals were athletes--over six feet in height, young and active.
I at once relinquished to him the command of the company, and said: "Captain, the corporals are not in fault.
He ordered them to put him down, used all his force to compel them to do so, repeated his orders in no measured terms, and continued to denounce the corporals after they had placed him on his feet by my side.
I informed the corporals that I had been placed in full command by Captain Swift; warned them he would probably resist their bringing him ashore; but no matter what he said or did, they must obey my orders.
Bob Owens, who had been detailed as one of the corporals of the guard.
Among the non-commissioned officers who had attempted to desert was one of the corporals belonging to Bob's troop, and the next morning Bob was ordered to take his place and do duty as corporal of the guard.
These will be found extremely mild, and there is not the slightest danger of the most utter novice in the noble art of smoking being turned up; and there is also the subtle delight of greening the cadet corporalsthat you are smoking.
Ideas have altered considerably in regard to discipline since those days; and the arrangement at the time was that the cadets should be placed in charge of ships' corporals for disciplinary purposes.
In 1876, however, and for a good many years afterwards, the cadets' corporals had so large a share in the discipline that the captains did not come in very much.
The captain points out the desired direction; the corporal of the base squad moves in the direction indicated; the other corporals conform.
The squads, successively from the right, count off as in the School of the Squad, corporals placing themselves as Nos.
Well Al as I said before I am not in the French army and I should worry about what they do to corporals in the French army.
So I asked him if the corporals wasn't going ahead of the rest of the bunch and he says the corporals would go with the privates unless they was all shot by that time for being A.
The corporals and sargents come from the regular army but after a while Capt.
He says "Maybe it would be different if we was all corporals because then it would seem like we was leaveing home forever.
The corporals and sargents we had at first was men from the regular army and they been sending them away lately and now some of the boys from the ranks gets their chance.
In the wagon assigned to the use of the boy corporals and myself, Henry's carbine and revolver were found, but Frank said his brother had not worn them during the day.
When she at last withdrew, to repeat the story to her relatives, the corporals and I wrote a letter to Señora Perea, to be delivered by her son.
Two days after arriving at Los Pinos, where I found a troop of California volunteer cavalry and also another troop of New Mexican volunteers, the boy corporalsunexpectedly arrived.
The boy corporals accompanied the hunting-parties, and became skilled in bringing down whatever they sighted.
About four o'clock in the afternoon the boy corporals and myself, tired with our work of repairing and arranging quarters, sat down to a lunch of broiled grouse.
The boy corporals found it a hardship to be wakened out of a sound sleep to wash and dress by starlight and sit down to a breakfast-table lighted by dim lanterns.
Half a dozen boys were engaged in throwing the lasso over the posts of the enclosing fence, when suddenly from a side street appeared the young corporals whom I had seen at reveille.
He told me that Manuel Perea, the Mexican lad with whom the boy corporals were so friendly at Santa Fé, was a prisoner in the hands of Elarnagan, a chief of the Navajos.
It was the 3d of October when the boy corporals and myself, mounted on sturdy Mexican ponies, rode out of Fort Marcy for our new station, one hundred miles due west.
The two boy corporals joined me as I followed the last wagon.
The following Saturday I saw the two corporals and their newly acquired companion at the post and at dinner in the mess-room, and a friendship was then formed which was to continue for many years.
They are the sons of Lieutenant-Colonel Burton, Corporals Frank and Henry," he replied.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corporals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
