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Example sentences for "general order"

  • Bragg, and a general order is published to-day virtually abolishing the Bureau of Conscription.

  • The Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance will, without delay, take measures to place in the field one-fifth of all the men employed in his department (including contractors and their employees) of the classes specified in General Order No.

  • I esteemed this defense of Allatoona so handsome and important, that I made it the subject of a general order, viz.

  • These instructions were embraced in General Order No.

  • The whole active militia will be summoned by a general order, issued from the office of the adjutant-general, to report on Boston Common to-morrow.

  • Drilling and tight stocking began to fall into disuse, and, by a general order, moustachios were allowed, according to the pleasure of officers and men.

  • On the 2d of July he issued a general order, calling upon the troops to prepare for a momentous conflict which was to decide their liberties and fortunes.

  • Lord Dunmore, obeying a general order issued by the ministry to all the provincial governors, had seized upon the military munitions of the province.

  • I reached this place early in the morning of the 16th, met General Slocum there; and explained to him the purport of General Order No.

  • One of the things stumbled on by the Patterson Committee was the "general order" system in the New York Custom-House, which led up to the Leet and Stocking scandal, one of the most exasperating incidents of the Grant regime.

  • General Order organizing a "Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

  • The day before their embarkation the following general order was issued: "(General Order, No.

  • Previous to the departure of the General the following general order was published: "(General Order No.

  • The Piedmontaise was then cruising in the Indian seas, and Sir Edward transmitted copies of the depositions to every ship on the station, with a general order, in which "the attention of the respective captains and commanders of H.

  • A general order to this effect had been issued on the 6th, but the co-operation of the Dutch squadron had made some change in the arrangements necessary.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    general agreement; general assessment; general battle; general chapter; general characters; general court; general debility; general favourite; general judgment; general laugh; general level; general practice; general reasoning; general rise; general society; general strike; general superintendent; general ticket; general verdict; general welfare; generally adequate; generally regarded; good system; more vigorous; sexual selection; she now