He accordingly traversed deserts to its southern frontier, took Sunbury, the only remaining fort of importance, and marched to Savannah, where he assumed the general command, detaching Colonel Campbell against Augusta.
He dared not weaken it by detaching a sufficient force; especially as it was said the enemy intended to attack him before their departure.
Lee's reply explained that his idea of detaching troops from Heath's division was merely for expedition's sake, intending to replace them from his own.
The eyes of all had been bent on Dresden latterly; and there had occurred a great deal of detaching thitherward, and of marching there and thence, as we have partly seen.
But the detaching of the Prince of Brunswick on it, and weakening one's too weak Army, 'What a rashness, what an oversight!
There were times, however, when Nature asserted itself within her, when her mind faltered from sheer bodily weakness, and when she listened to the stealthy progress of the disease which was gradually detaching her from her hold on life.
The cabinet then made proposals to Catherine on the basis of her detaching Austria from France, and the formation of a triple alliance between England and the two imperial courts for the maintenance of peace.
His tactics were splendid, though the detaching of part of his fleet under Montagu was a strategic mistake.
If he had been wholly different from what he was, such a step, though it would not perhaps have averted the coming rebellion, would have probably rendered it less formidable by detaching some of the leaders of the conspiracy.
The positive pressure will quickly clear obstructed drainage canals, and may be used while the esophagoscope is in situ, by simply detaching the minus pressure tube and attaching the plus pressure.
Take a cord and light-carrier with lamp that lights up, detaching the cord-terminals at the binding posts, and attach the terminals to the binding posts of the battery to be tested.
On the top of the detaching roller is a large steel fluted roller carried at each end by a small arm called a "horse tail.
The action of this detaching motion is positive, and enables the machine to be run at a high speed without danger of missing, as happens when the point of the catch for the old notch-wheel becomes broken or worn away.
Cæsar now represented to Pompey the importance of detaching from the aristocracy M.
But in detaching your force the President directs that it be done in such a way as to enable you to hold your ground and not interfere with the movement against Chattanooga and East Tennessee.
When a force or property seems to be an integral part or constituent element of the subject in which it resides, we cannot easily imagine its detaching itself and going elsewhere.
When collecting only pollen they alight on the flowers, passing rapidly over the stamens, detaching a portion of the dust, which lodges on most parts of them, to be brushed together and packed into pellets when again on the wing.
At the moment when, detaching the little parachute from her car, she took the light for the fireworks in her other hand, she crossed this train with the light and set it on fire.
She had an impatient movement of her shoulders without detaching herself from the back of the chair.
When on the point of detaching itself from the horizon, the sun still consumed away the line of the sea, and looked as if pulled down by it.
The corms, however, being larger, should be planted about 6 inches deep, and new plants may be secured by detaching the offsets when the leaves have withered.
This is best done when the foliage has withered, and will give an opportunity for detaching the offsets to increase the stock.
The great mass of bulbous and cormous plants, however, are so readily multiplied by detaching the offsets from the parent bulb or corm, that the other methods are rarely employed except by trade growers.
The weight of the rings is graduated so that by detaching one or more the varying charges required can be obtained.
Melobesia callithamnioides gives rise to multicellular propagula; (Griffithsia corallina is said to give rise to new individuals, by detaching portions of the thallus from the base of which new attachment organs have already arisen.
Meanwhile Napoleon, little deterred by the Russian autocrat's youthful idealogy, never gave up hope ofdetaching him from the coalition.
The country must have frequently been agitated by violent earthquakes, detaching huge masses of rocks from the hills; and, bereft alike of vegetation and animal life, it presents altogether a most monotonous appearance.
Jack was away and up to his knees in the water in a moment, detaching the oysters.
It was now too late to alter existing circumstances, and the whole chances of detaching the Indian host from the cause of Xuarez lay with Cocom and the opal.
This idea of detaching the Indians from Xuarez, by means of the opal, seemed to him to be childish.
Was it possible that Bee was detaching a little knot of the blue flowers to put in her waistband?
How could Henry VIII have even thought of detaching his kingdom from the Roman See, but for the ancient and deep-seated national opposition to its encroachments?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detaching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
