A disturbance was excited in the Champs Élysées between the grenadiers of the Filles-Saint-Thomas and the federates of Marseilles, in which some grenadiers were wounded.
The federates of the departments were ranged in order under their banners; the deputies of the army and the national guards were in their ranks, and under their ensigns.
It was especially observable on the anniversary of the 14th of July, when the sentiments of the multitude and the federates from the departments were manifested without reserve.
The sight of the federates who paraded the faubourgs and the boulevards, vociferating, "The Republic for ever!
My mother she wore de Yankee flag under her dress like a petticoat when de 'federates come raidin'.
When dey hears de 'federates comin' de white folks makes us bury all de gold and de silver spoons out in de garden.
Thus it was this faction which brought to Paris the federates who ended by causing every one of them to perish on the scaffold after making Louis XVI.
The famous federates of Marseilles, who were to take such an active part in the coming insurrection, arrived in Paris the same day.
The federates came into Paris full of the most revolutionary projects.
It was Servan who proposed forming a camp of twenty thousand federates around Paris.
And Lafayette, on white charger, is here, and all the civic Functionaries; and the Federates form dances, till their strictly military evolutions and manoeuvres can begin.
No: these poor Federates march now towards Austria and Austrian Committee, towards jeopardy and forlorn hope; men of hard fortune and temper, not rich in the world's goods.
And yet, thin and feeble as these streaks of Federates seem, they are the only thing one discerns moving with any clearness of aim, in this strange scene.
Our Breton Captain of Federates kneels even, in a fit of enthusiasm, and gives up his sword; he wet-eyed to a King wet-eyed.
He and a scant dozen of other federates were its only defenders, resting in a semi-recumbent position on the ground, infallibly causing every soldier who exposed himself to bite the dust.
Ten days sufficed to collect a force of nearly eighty thousand men, and the tide of returning confidence set in so strongly that on the 2d of April two divisions opened hostilities by taking from the federates Puteaux and Courbevoie.
The few hundred federates with whom he was, and in whose ranks were men of many different battalions, were charged with the defense of the entire quartier, from the quai to the Rue Saint-Dominique.
The 'Federates have a big camp there at Vicksburg and cut a big ditch out at the edge of town.
When the Yanks come in sight they raised a white flag and wanted the 'Federates to surrender, but they wouldn't answer.
The Yankees stole the march on the 'Federates and waited till they come out the ditch and mowed 'em down.
When the 'Federates come in sight of Mansfield they was carryin' a red flag, and kept it raised till surrender.
Dey was 'Federates but dey was mean as de Yankees.
The 'federates had a scrimmage with the Yankees 'bout two miles out from Lynchburg, and after surrender General Wilcox and a big company of Yankees come there.
Dey 'bout 300 peoples in dat travel wagon and dey camps dat night at Camp Fusilier, where de 'federates have de camp.
I seen our 'federates go off laughin' an' gay; full of life an' health.
The soldiers and federates answered sullenly, "Why should we fight any more?
Corps ofFederates had been formed in all the districts where materials could be found of which to compose them.
A mounted officer galloped up and ordered all the federates to retreat, because they were about to be surrounded by the troops from Versailles.
This had perhaps decided the fate of the pastor's house, when the sergeant of federates interfered, and addressing the officer said to him, "I have received orders to stop the fire just here.
The pastor must have been eloquent and have spoken with profound conviction, for thefederates who were listening to him began to weep, then seized and embraced him.
Then, turning toward the federates and pointing to the houses on the Rue de Lille, he cried, "All that belongs to the people.
The federates stopped before this man, whose simplicity rendered him heroic.
Just as he was returning to rescue a few valuables, some federates rushed into the court, crying, "Hurry!
Hard firing instantly commenced from the Federatesand Marseillois, whilst the palace blazed forth fire from every window, and killed a great many of the assailants.
But the real strength of the assault was to lie on the Federates of Marseilles and Bretagne, and other provinces, who had been carefully provided with arms and ammunition.
He succeeded so far in his scheme, that a few scores of those Federates again appeared in Paris, where their altered demeanour excited surprise.
They might have brought up five or six thousandFederates from the departments, and the force would then have been in their own hands.
They delighted to claim the share in the downfall of Louis, which was due to their colleague Barbaroux, and the Federates of Marseilles and Brest.
A body of Federates from Brest, about four hundred strong, were also detached in their favour by Kevelegan, one of the deputies from the ancient province of Bretagne, and who was a zealous Girondist.
The same idea is found among thefederates and Parisians composing the company of the Egalité, which brought the Orleans prisoners to Versailles and then murdered them.
Nicolay wrote the following day, the 11th of August: "The federatesfired first, which was followed by a sharp volley from the château windows.
The federates "resolved to watch the Château, each taking a place in the battalions respectively of the sections in which they lodge, and many incorporated themselves with the battalions of the faubourg St Antoine.
An address was read from the federates of the eighty-two departments, asking the Sections of Paris to assemble in arms.
He wished to preserve to the national guard a superiority, which it would have lost, if the whole of the federates had been armed.
The federates did not stop at these demonstrations of their zeal, empty as they often are; they called for arms, and were angry, at the dilatoriness with which they were given them.
You maintain," it was replied, "that we may raise in mass the federates and the patriots.
Then they began a-shooting against us in the grove, And their long lances toward the pious Federates move: Hei!
A knight insolently demands lunch for them from the Sempachers: a burgher threatens to break his head and lunch them in a heavy fashion, for the Federates are gathering, and will undoubtedly make him spill his porridge.
He had not done, It would have cost the Federates many an honest one.
The Federates (Confederates can never again be used in connection with a just fight) began to attack the castles which sheltered the oppressive baronial power.
Dear Federates and true, my life I give to win: They have their rank too firm, we cannot break it in: Hei!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "federates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
