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Example sentences for "debarked"

Lexicographically close words:
debacle; debajo; debar; debark; debarkation; debarking; debarred; debarring; debars; debase
  1. At six o'clock in the morning the fleet moved down, and the troops debarked at half-past eight on the Missouri shore, three miles above Columbus, and protected from view by an intervening wooded point.

  2. Some troops have debarked and encamped at Chimney Point.

  3. The troops debarked on the Isle of Orleans, a little below Quebec.

  4. He debarked his troops and apparently made every preparation to attack the enemy while the navy bombarded the main forts at Haines' Bluff.

  5. McPherson came up with the train of cars bearing his command as close to the enemy as was prudent, debarked on the rebel flank and got in to the support of Rosecrans just after the repulse.

  6. We dropped down the river on the 6th to within about six miles of Columbus, debarked a few men on the Kentucky side and established pickets to connect with the troops from Paducah.

  7. They tried to force their way through Black Bayou with their steamer, but, finding it slow and tedious work, debarked and pushed forward on foot.

  8. Hatch, consisting of about five thousand men of all arms, including a brigade from the navy, proceeded up Broad River and debarked at Boyd's Neck on the 29th of November, from where it moved to strike the railroad at Grahamsville.

  9. We immediately turned back, and the troops were debarked below the mouth of the creek.

  10. We could not stop, however, to pick them up, because the troops we had seen crossing the river had debarked by this time and were nearer our transports than we were.

  11. They took large river transports to Eagle Bend on the Mississippi, where they debarked and marched across to Steel's Bayou, where they re-embarked on the transports.

  12. The cavalry you have sent to Canby will be debarked at Vicksburg.

  13. Having debarked his troops, he marched up the river; his boats, manned by four pieces of artillery, keeping abreast and covering his flank.

  14. Under orders, the troops in France and Spain were marched to Bordeaux and placed in a camp of concentration, from which they were debarked in fleets down the river Garonne, and across the Atlantic to their destinations in America.

  15. With this aim in view the fifth French army corps, commanded by Prince Jerome Napoleon, had debarked at Leghorn, under the pretext of organizing the military forces of Central Italy and harassing the Austrians on the extreme left.

  16. The troops were debarked and took possession of both forts, repaired and strengthened the works, formed an intrenched camp, and thus gave the Government a permanent foothold on the soil of South Carolina.

  17. On Wednesday morning, May 28th, the troops debarked at Pier 6, Bush Terminal, Brooklyn.

  18. The regiment debarked and eventually got ashore beginning at 1400 despite an incredible series of communication breakdowns in which Jones at crucial times was out of touch with the division and his battalions.

  19. From hence it appears that the branches of debarked oak-trees produce fewer leaf-buds, and more flower- buds, which last circumstance I suppose must depend on their being sooner or later debarked in the vernal months.

  20. At Prescott the river was commanded by British batteries, and to avoid them Wilkinson debarked his troops and stores a short distance above that place, and sent them by land to Red Mill, some distance below.

  21. At the head of the latter, we debarked on a shaking bog.

  22. It was twelve o'clock, meridian, when we debarked at its head.

  23. We were favored with a fair wind in passing over it, and having reached its head debarked on a marshy margin, and immediately commenced the portage to the Brulé, or Misakoda River.

  24. Hermle and his small staff promptly debarked from Monrovia (APA 31) and headed towards the smoking island, but the trip took four hours.

  25. No other loss attended the operation--the light company of the 93rd cleared the brushwood of a few skirmishers that had been thrown out by the enemy, and the remainder of the troops debarked without any opposition.

  26. The mode in which an army is debarked exposes it unavoidably to fire, and troops, packed by fifties in a launch, afford a striking mark for an artillerist.

  27. That alert and able ruler lost no time in seeking assistance from his allies, the Thessalians; and one of their powerful princes led a thousand horsemen against the Spartans, who had debarked at Phalerum.

  28. As soon as the prisoners had debarked from the Silver Cloud, Spelford began giving orders.

  29. The Starmen debarked from their ship, crossed the field and entered the airlock that led into the receiving area.

  30. Drawing their long ships up on the beach, with furled sail and oars drawn in, they debarked their army on the shore.

  31. Arrangements were made accordingly, and the unsuspicious Nicuesa debarked from his ship the day after his arrival.

  32. Pedrarias thereupon debarked in great state with his men, and, as soon as he firmly got himself established on shore, arrested Balboa and presented him for trial before Espinosa for the death of Nicuesa.

  33. Thus has many a one debarked in a tropical port, and there is nothing at all extraordinary about it, except one's own feeling.

  34. What happened to the two who debarked to introduce coarse undergarments and fine singing into Yucatan I shall never know.

  35. On the 22d, the army debarked at the lower part of the lake, and advanced toward Ticonderoga.

  36. We arrived at Helena, Arkansas, on July 31st, debarked and went into camp near the bank of the river, about two miles below the town.

  37. On the 6th of September they debarked in the rain at Bakaritza.

  38. On the afternoon of September the fifth the 3rd Battalion of the 339th Infantry debarked hurriedly at Bakaritza.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "debarked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.