For this purpose he had a standing army distributed in strong detachments along the frontier, but the flower of his forces was concentrated round the royal residence to serve as a body-guard.
Other detachments were to be sent to the marshes of Sologne in order to drain them, or to be employed on earthworks in distant departments.
The main task of the 56th Division was to continue building up the flank, to neutralise the German detachments in Bouleaux Wood, and to get touch with the 5th Division on the left.
All the six 6-inch mortars in the front line were lost to the enemy, and no news was available as to the fate of the officers and detachments of the two that were manned (they were afterwards found to have been made prisoners).
This misfortune caused the enemy to put down a barrage on our front-line and communication trenches, which prevented the smoke detachments getting to their appointed positions.
The detachments then retired after damaging the guns, burning the dug-outs, and removing dial sights and breach blocks.
New detachments of English and Scotch, of Huguenots, Dutch, Flemings, and Brandenburgers, were also added to the allied army.
Leaving sundry detachments of troops posted in the principal villages, he returned to Alais, and invited the fugitive priests at once to return to their respective parishes.
And difficult though the Col de la Croix is for the passage of an army, it has on more than one occasion been passed by French detachments in their invasion of Italy.
The bishops of the principal dioceses could with difficulty attend the meeting, and were only enabled to do so by the assistance of strong detachments of soldiers--the Camisards being masters of the principal roads.
Strong detachments of troops were accordingly stationed there and at Florac for the purpose of preventing the meetings and overawing the population.
They are not detachments of the regular forces, but men taken chiefly from the Xebeques, whose manners and dress are sufficiently distinct from those of the ordinary Turks.
Each of these detachments is placed under the control of an Agah; and on the personal character of this officer depends the security of the district.
In the army of the Carolina and Virginia frontiersmen, composed of independent detachments recruited from many sources and solicitous for their own individual credit, each command was directed in the battle by its own leader.
Three regiments will proceed to the Camp of the Bridgemakers; the detachments will take pontoon and engineer soldiers from the companies selected as attack column.
The first duty of the detachments which cross is to occupy the slope of the western bank.
The baggage, camp and garrison equipage was ordered to Crump's Landing, and detachmentswere made for its protection.
The road was then patrolled and picketted by cavalry detachments of your command.
From these posts strong detachments could be supplied and equipped for service in the Indian country.
Meanwhile the various Federal detachments in other quarters were cooeperating with the main movement of McClellan.
The two armies in Virginia, weakened by the detachments from each sent to the West, continued inactive until autumn.
The Federal commander, in his march southward from St. Louis, pursued, with considerable vigor, the various detachments of the patriots who were hastening to the standards of Price.
Late in December, in charge of a considerable force, he executed, with indifferent success, a movement against detachments of the enemy in the neighborhood of Romney, and other points along the Upper Potomac.
The towns of Newborn, Washington, and other places of less note in North Carolina, were captured by naval expeditions in conjunction with detachments from the army of General Burnside.
There are mentioned several rencounters between considerable detachments of the Swedish and Russian armies.
These advices inform us further, that Marshal Villars had ordered large detachments to make motions towards Douay and Condé.
But they write from Brussels, that the Duke of Marlborough having it equally in his power to make detachments to the same parts, they are under no apprehensions from these reports for the safety of their country.
In the fields on either side John saw detachments of German infantry, skirmishers probably, as they had not yet reached the line of cannon.
Both he and Fleury were sure the prisoners themselves would soon cross the Marne, and that large detachments of the enemy would go with them.
Until our battle fleet is much larger than at present it should never be split into detachments so far apart that they could not in event of emergency be speedily united.
I have not thought it necessary in the course of the last season to call for any general detachments of militia or of volunteers under the laws passed for that purpose.
Owing to the remoteness of some of these positions, the detachments have not yet reached their destination.
Among the incidents to the measures of the war I am constrained to advert to the refusal of the governors of Maine and Connecticut to furnish the required detachments of militia toward the defense of the maritime frontier.
The detachments of invalids from Punamalee embarked at Madras on board the Marquis Wellington and Princess Charlotte of Wales.
The gun detachments at this time rose to a high pitch of proficiency and could get 10 rounds a minute out of the howitzers, which, considering the double load and triple movement, was by no means a bad performance.
The detachments meanwhile had settled down, making improvements to their billets and strengthening the gun pits, and were already proving themselves seasoned warriors.
Goldney's command led their detachments under my own observation with gallantry and judgment, viz.
The following officers commanding units and detachments of the Reliving Force are stated by Brigidier-General Meiklejohn to have carried out their duties in a thoroughly capable and satisfactory manner, viz.
On the other hand, the brigands will know, by this time, where all our detachments are quartered, and what is their strength.
At one o'clock Garibaldi sent off several of his officers to endeavour to rally and bring up some of the scattered detachments of the left wing.
This morning it was known that several detachments of troops would march from Bronte at daybreak, and that their destination was the mountains.
So long as we and the other detachments are up here, the brigands will not care to venture into the plain; nor will the agents of the revolution who are with them.
The French, having invested Glogau, Breslau, and Graudentz, and left detachments to urge these sieges, moved towards the Polish frontier.
He gave the cri de guerre, the signal of battle, but as he wheeled about to procure his weapons, he beheld other detachments of the Spaniards making their way through the unrepaired and undefended breaches in the wall.
Their homes built, their fortifications complete, they proceeded, in small detachmentsto explore the neighboring streams and woods.
First, small detachments of other "Heavies" came up rapidly and fell upon the enclosing Russians so fiercely that their plan was weakened.
The way of the enemy's approach was a great glade through the wood, and to right and left of this he placed detachments of his troops while he stationed the main body of his army at the point where they must debouch.
Difficulties had arisen with the Indians in different sections of the country, and several severe battles between them and detachments of U.
Detachments of the 12th Dragoons and the 22d Chasseurs-à-Cheval.
And so, even in the recruit detachmentsof the regulars, were found scores of young men whose social status at home was on a plane much higher than that of many of their officers.
London was ordered to be illuminated, and detachments of French Dragoons paraded the principal streets, and squares, all night.
Detachments dispatched to the different Counties to disarm the people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detachments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
