Therefore, Kuropatkin sent three army corps across the river, and by September 1st, the Japanese flanking forces were confronted by a powerful body.
It was on the 12th of June that the Korean capital fell, and by the 16th four army corps had assembled there, while four others had effected a landing at Fusan.
Thereafter, the two corps separated, Kato taking the westerly road and Konishi the direct route to Seoul.
These six offices were known as roku-yefu, and the officer in chief command of eachcorps was a kami.
For the final attack Yoshisada divided his army into threecorps and advanced against Kamakura from the north, the east, and the west.
I also recommend that when the office of chief of a corps becomes vacant the place may be filled by selection from the corps in which the vacancy exists.
The trial with torpedoes under the Corps of Engineers, and appropriation for the same.
The second is the necessity of reopening promotion in the staff corps of the Army.
I recommend that the number of officers in each grade in the staff corps be fixed, and that whenever the number in any one grade falls below the number so fixed, that the vacancy may be filled by promotion from the grade below.
They were chosen as mayors in the small towns, and were always requested to act as officers in the corps of the National Guards, which were formed in this, as in every other district of France.
He and Chapeau were not long in raising an efficient corps of barbers and assistant barbers; and few of the shopkeepers, when called upon, thought it advisable to refuse the loan of a razor and a shaving dish.
From the beginning we have had adequate self-supporting resources in Loanda from the Portuguese patronage of our schools, and have now, but at present we lack the teaching corps requisite.
In the midst of hardship which threatened to break his expedition up at this point, he was rejoiced to witness the arrival of a relief expedition from below, other boats, plenty of provisions and a corps of workmen.
There should be flank-guards, under the orders of two of the oldest midshipmen; and a light corps might be formed of the topmen to co-operate with the marines.
The art of leaping on to horseback is one which we would fain persuade the youthful members of the corps to learn themselves; though, if you choose to give them an instructor, (24) all the greater credit to yourself.
The proposal, therefore, to select from these a corps of observation will most likely prove true strategy.
Again, it strikes me that if you seek for an energetic infantry to support your cavalry, you will find it in a corps composed of individuals whose hatred to the foe is naturally intense.
Of the German Corps known to have been engaged the 3rd and 18th Corps have been entirely used up, or "spent," as the military phrase goes.
The 7th Reserve Corps has lost half, and the 15th Corps three-quarters, of its available strengths.
Next day they go together to the Motor Corps headquarters and in due time are accepted and become members of the Corps, in the service of the United States.
THE KHAKI GIRLS OF THE MOTOR CORPS or Finding Their Place in the Big War Joan Mason, an enthusiastic motor girl, and Valerie Warde, a society debutante, meet at an automobile show.
Hill which enabled Stonewall Jackson's corps to hold its ground, and had the other Federal corpsbeen at hand to support Hooker the result might have been very different.
Inspections of the fleet and the dockyards were established, and the corps of Marines was created in 1755.
Early on the 19th the corps of Sumner and Mansfield followed Hooker across the upper stream whilst McClellan's left wing (Burnside's corps) drew up opposite Lee's extreme right.
Mansfield was killed, but his successor led the corps well, and after heavy fighting Hood and D.
We did not mind the rum so much, for the Army Service Corps had quite enough on hand for our ration when the issue was due.
General Birdwood came and took charge of the Australian, New Zealand Army Corps .
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps would have to be sacrificed to ensure the safe withdrawal of the remainder.
And through it all our Army Medical Corpsdid yeoman service.
Oh, you, who think the Army Medical Corps is always comfortably and safely situated at the base, pray be undeceived!
But it was worth an army corps to Abdul, and it did not make General Birdwood's task any easier.
A corps deficient in instruction is only an embarrassment to an advanced guard.
Whenever, for particular reasons, this principle is departed from, the detached corps should be independent in their operations.
At this moment a sortie from the lines of St. George took him in flank, while the corps of Augereau, which had followed the march of the Austrian general, attacked him in rear.
He should be ready, in order to render success more complete, to operate with fresh troops upon those points where the enemy is giving way, and also to reinforce his own corps wherever they are inclined to yield.
If the investing corps and army of observation are only equal when united to the relieving force, the besieging army should remain entire within, or near its lines, and push the works and the siege with the greatest activity.
General Championet commanded the French army, and endeavored to cut off the communication of the Austrians with Turin, by employing corps which manœuvred separately to get into their rear.
An officer so circumstanced must unite address with courage, and boldness with discretion, if he wishes to collect plunder without measuring the strength of his littlecorps with superior forces.
The advanced guard of an army should be always provided with trusty guides, and with a corps of pioneers: the first to point out the best roads, the second to render these roads more practicable.
The women of the corps diplomatique were patiently smoothing their gloves on their arms, opening and closing their large, soft, feather fans, each for the hundredth time eagerly scanning her programme, as if she had never seen it before.
To some of the spectators on the left aisle half of the performance was lost--the whole corps diplomatique in full uniform in the senators' gallery, with the wives of the Ambassadors and of the Italian Cabinet Ministers.
Another characteristic of the corps was its inherent thrift.
Individuals of some corps could be readily identified by their battered helmets or split boots; not so the Devons.
A corps that came in for a good deal of notice was the Bearer Company.
However, on further consideration it seemed to me that undoubtedly such a preface should be written by some one outside the corps itself.
Since that time this excellent corps has fought and marched in summer rain and winter frost during many long months, through the length and breadth of the Eastern Transvaal.
Your Enforcement Corps is searching for those men.
He already had the entire Enforcement Corps screaming for his blood.
Indeed, the now notorious Waern affair became so serious that our Prime Minister found it necessary to take personal command of the Enforcement Corps and direct the search for the terrorists himself.
Wherever they are--whoever they are--your Enforcement Corps will not rest so long as one of them remains at liberty.
But an Enforcement Corps was formed to see that the new taxes were properly administered and promptly paid.
He wished to take the whole of his corps with him; but Colonel Lawrence considered that these would be of extreme use in following up the French, and in subsequent operations, as cavalry was an arm in which the English were greatly deficient.
Charlie's corps had already been recalled towards Madras, to keep the bodies of French who were converging in that direction at a distance, as long as possible, so as to allow the victualling of Madras to go on uninterrupted.
Brother Gabriel,” said the grandma, “to which State corps do you think our invalid belongs?
This is to be the crack corps of the Australian Force.
Wish I had joined the Camel Corps or Donkey Brigade.
He had served as a Tommy in the African War, and since then had commanded a corps of mounted men in the back of beyond.
Picture the scene then--two corps side by side, and imagine the language.
At Springfield the corps visited the Legislature, then in session, and the home of President Lincoln.
One of the prettiest spots found was on the shore of the Kankakee River, near Wilmington, where the corps brought up late one afternoon after a hot and dusty ride.
In like manner we find the Royal Marines bearing on their colours an anchor, first granted to the corps as a badge in the year 1775.
As the facings of this distinguished corps are green,[45] the body of the flag is of that colour.
This device the "Death or Glory Boys" still retain, like the famous Pomeranian Horse and the Black Brunswickers, continental corps from whom the Anglo-Hanoverian monarch doubtless derived the idea.
Footnote 16: A corps of foot-soldiers in the Austrian service, eventually incorporated in the army.
Immediately after this interview young Ericsson was made a cadet in thecorps of engineers, and, after six months' tuition, at the age of twelve years, was appointed niveleur on the Grand Ship Canal under Count Platen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
