The cavalry, eight companiesof the Fourth Illinois, under Colonel Dickey, were posted in a large open field to the left and rear of Shiloh meeting-house, which I regarded as the centre of my position.
Hoffman, Quartermaster's Sergeant and composed of eight companies, viz: Company A, W.
The same formation applies equally to battalions of six or eight companies.
In the French system, where each battalion consists of eight companies, forming as many platoons at drill, this objection does not exist, since each company is conducted by its own captain.
The elongated square, especially when applied to a battalion of eight companies, three of which would march in front and one on each side, would be much better to make an attack than a deployed battalion.
The column consisted of eight companies of each of the battalions of the 3rd Native Regiment, with the greater part of the cavalry.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eight companies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
