This is an asylum and hospital for disabled and superannuated soldiers of the American regular army, containing usually about six hundred of them, and founded by General Winfield Scott, whose statue adorns the grounds.
The "Merrimac" was herself soon disabled and compelled to retire.
It is to be noted that in the fourth article such as by sickness and age are disabled from work, and poor, shall be taken into the house and provided for; whereas in the third article they who are blind or have lost limbs, &c.
To these were added the remnant of Laudonnière's men, of whom seventeen could bear arms, the rest being sick or disabled by wounds received in the fight with Outina.
She had lately received a new heavy gun, brought by the Tennessee to replace one disabled while on the coast some time previous.
The Bayou City and Harriet Lane, entangled and aground, disabled for any service they could render in this fight, with the Neptune sunk, were at the mercy of the Federal vessels if they acted promptly.
It was full thirty minutes before the crowd could be dispersed so wreckers could haul off the disabled plane, and so the aviators in this thrilling episode could slip away to some place of quiet and rest.
Knowing that the ranger, a former flying pal, had been disabled by illness, Raynor had answered the silent call by gliding to earth to render aid in some emergency.
He transferred himself and his immediate dependents to the other vessel, and sent the disabled caravel back to Santo Domingo.
The fleet had returned crippled with disabled crews, and half the vessels had disappeared; but the solution of a great problem had been reached.
The truth is that aside from the women and children, there were only four men, who were too disabled to march.
The disabled tank was the limit of our success for the day.
Edward was so completely broken down, that he was in a great measure disabled from working at his trade.
While matters were in this position, I beheld to my utter astonishment and surprise, two of the unwounded Terns take hold of their disabled comrade, one at each wing, lift him out of the water, and bear him out seawards.
After this the Slip couldn't strike another blow, bekase his hand was disabled out and out.
Two people may fashion a seat out of their four hands on which the disabled child may sit with his arms about the necks of his two friends.
The exigencies of the war in the Mediterranean forbade the departure, even of a sixty-four with a disabled crew.
The British lay in the same direction, and were estimated by Nelson to be three and a half miles from the disabled ship and her consort, five miles from the rest of the French.
But his own condition, prostrated and with disabled head, was doubly typical of the state of his fleet after the "Orient" blew up.
Out of six guns in the battery which he calls "ours," five were disabled in six days.
The Spanish divisions united, and carried off their other disabled ships.
After a while they marched off, but they saluted us with five arrows at their parting, which wounded a horse so that it disabled him, and we left him the next day, poor creature, in great need of a good farrier.
By hewing away the spear-heads, the English disabled their opponents; yet they fought on, till man by man they fell around their monarch.
Not only the dead, but the sick or disabled of their own kind are torn to pieces and devoured.
I was told of one case where a brutal driver disabled one of his dogs with heavy blows; its companions did not wait till it was dead before they feasted.
For some weeks after the death of Mary William's grief for her loss disabled him from the discharge of public duties.
The disabled King, like the disabled subject, must have become mentally incapacitated; and James's incapacitation for the work of government was purely moral.
Also, children of disabled seamen were to be educated at the expense of the hospital.
A cottage may be built for a poor, lame, sick, aged, or disabled person on waste or common land.
Any person with land in fee-simple may establish a hospital, abiding place, or house of correction to have continuance forever as a corporation for the sustenance and relief of the maimed, poor, or disabled people as to set the poor to work.
Four of the hands were disabled by clubs, while the rest defended themselves and the wounded as well as they could with handspikes, or whatever could suddenly be clutched.
From Thursday evening until two o'clock on Sunday, her bulwarks almost touching the water, she rolled about like a disabled hulk, the passengers and crew expecting that she would every moment go down.
She is divided into 135 compartments, and her engines are placed at such a distance from each other that should one be disabled from any cause the other would still be in working order.
On Sunday evening, after two days of terrible suspense, a temporary steering gear was fitted up, and the disabled vessel with her distressed crew made for Cork Harbour, steaming with her screw at nine knots an hour.
Many died or became permanently disabled from the sequelæ (Bartholow).
Like the USS Stark, the frigate disabled by Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf in 1988, it was a perfect target.
The short- circuiting of the security system had disabled all the electronic locks in the facility.
The artillery of Maison-Forte had disabled many men, and had damaged them to such a degree that they would be compelled to anchor promptly in some harbour on the coast, before they would be able to set sail for Tripoli.
