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Example sentences for "infantry and"

  • The cavalry division had sustained its first defeat near Coffeeville--a severe repulse at the hands of the enemy's infantry and artillery.

  • With twelve regiments of infantry and one of cavalry he had the enormous complement of nine batteries of artillery.

  • Most of the next day, the infantry and artillery remained where they had spent the night; but the cavalry pushed on as far as Cold Water River, where it met the enemy in force of infantry and artillery, and was forced back.

  • Early on Wednesday Scott directed Worth and Engineers Mason and Tower, supported by Garland's brigade of infantry and a body of dragoons, to reconnoitre San Antonio.

  • That under Prince Eugene, consisting of eighteen battalions of infantry and seventy-four squadrons of horse, was to attack the French left.

  • The place was exceedingly strong, but the garrison was weak, consisting only of six battalions of infantry and 300 horse.

  • Between the gables on the left, we could see on the hill, the long blue lines of infantry and masses of cavalry coming from Sombref to turn our columns.

  • The farther we advanced the greater the number of troops we saw, infantry and cavalry.

  • With the remainder of his force, two brigades of infantry and a battery, Jackson moved off to his left.

  • Of these, ships were furnished by Chios, Lesbos, and Corcyra, infantry and money by the rest.

  • In the meanwhile he is informed by the Ubii, a few days after, that the Suevi are drawing all their forces into one place, and are giving orders to those nations which are under their government to send auxiliaries of infantry and of cavalry.

  • Having by these means speedily got together a large force of infantry and of cavalry, they came up to the camp.

  • Carr with about 1,700 infantry and cavalry to occupy that point, gain information as to the condition of things in Price's camp, and to set on foot preparation for supplying the advancing army from the surrounding country.

  • Rains with the announcement that the fields in front of Rains were "covered with Yankees, infantry and artillery.

  • Lyon himself, with his staff, the Regulars, infantry and artillery, and a force of volunteers, embarked on two steamboats to move directly upon Jefferson City by the way of the Missouri River.

  • The man we found living there seemed like an old friend; he had come from near Fort Jessup, Louisiana, where the officers of the 3d and 4th infantry and the 2d dragoons had known him and his family.

  • I had charge of the few wagons allotted to the 4th infantry and of the pack train to supplement them.

  • On the 12th I learned that Lee had sent twenty pieces of artillery, two divisions of infantry and a considerable cavalry force to strengthen Early.

  • I was assigned to the command of a sub-district embracing the troops in the immediate neighborhood, some three regiments of infantry and a section of artillery.

  • All the Confederate troops were sent back to Richmond with the exception of one division of infantry and a little cavalry.

  • In one confused mass of infantry and cavalry—of European and native soldiers—they fled to the cantonment walls.

  • If you should face a line of cavalry, infantry and artillery to the rear, and then make a little more than a half wheel about its new left as a pivot, you would get some idea of the manner in which we fell upon Hood's communications.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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