The National Government forces gradually increased in preparation for the disbandment of others--extensive bodies of irregulars were roughly systematized and placed under central supervision.
If they were bandits, consolidation under a chieftain transformed them into military irregularsand induced some ambitious general to include them in his forces.
He therefore thought that all Christians acted in the same way, and that the Colonial Irregulars would be just as methodical in their religious observance as the goody-goody hangers-on at the various mission stations he was acquainted with.
Mauretania were employed as irregulars in the neighbouring province.
Even beyond their own province theirregulars from Mauretania were employed in great numbers, particularly as horsemen in the later period,[285] while the same did not hold of the Numidians.
Under cover of this heavy fire, swarms of the enemy's irregularsadvanced towards our position.
After the fall of Charleston only a few American irregulars were to be found in South Carolina.
Sanchez, joining the irregulars with a division from Chillán, attacked them there on the night of the 19th October.
Carrera left for the capital accompanied by his brother Luis, but on the road they were taken prisoners by a party of Royalist irregulars under Barañao, and carried off to Chillán.
He had plenty of irregulars who knew the country well, and split up his force into flying columns to the north and south.
Pareja, lying on a stretcher, stricken with a mortal disease, ordered a retreat, on which the rest of the irregulars dispersed, and he was left with little more than a thousand men.
Account of the Origin and Services of the Ahmednuggar Irregulars IV.
I have seen many regiments since, and many ferocious-looking men, but the Ahmednuggar Irregulars were more dreadful to the view than any set of ruffians on which I ever set eyes.
Capture of the survivors of this day's memorable fight would mean a French disaster, and to bring that about Wellington had long ago sent his Spanish irregulars to guard the fords across the River Tormes.
On went the scarlet lines of British, with the thin blue line of Tom's irregulars wedged in between.
The command rang out in Portuguese, and at once the irregulars stormed the height, their muskets at the trail, their bayonets already fixed.
By now theirregulars were pouring into the house, their bayonets fixed in readiness for trouble.
If others of the irregulars bolt before the enemy, we won't have the same said of our fellows.
Just enough to let you manoeuvre theirregulars you are to command," he had assured Tom, with a laugh.
They're hardly likely to notice our absence from the camp; for 4000 Portuguese irregulars were encamped beside us, and drew rations with us.
But as soon as the corps of irregulars had passed he sent a messenger to call its commander.
They were not a minute too soon, for amid a cloud of dust about fifty Turkish irregulars galloped madly down the path.
The irregulars dismounted and, having hobbled their horses, joined the others around the fires.
It was an anxious thirty seconds, but before the Turkish irregularscould penetrate the deception the two British officers were through and heading towards the open country.
Parkes, Loch, and one of Fane's Irregulars arrived.
Although the irregulars thoroughly knew the country, they now found themselves in the immense wilderness that separates Unyoro from the Shooli and Madi tribes.
If I can form a regiment of 600 irregulars I shall be independent of troops from Khartoum.
The remaining men received certificates, and raised the corps of irregulars to 312 officers and men; all of whom were nominally under Wat-el-Mek, although Ali Genninar held a separate command in Unyoro.
These men found fault with Abou Saood for having left them in the dark respecting the contract with the government; and they at once declared that they should be happy to serve as irregulars at the expiration of the agreement.
The party was to consist of a serjeant and ten men (regulars), together with twenty-five irregulars under the charge of my old Cairo dragoman, Mohammed.
If they remain faithful, they will form a nucleus for the irregulars who will most probably follow their example.
The irregulars were concealed in the high grass close to the bank, and as the canoe touched the shore, they shot the two natives dead, and immediately secured it.
The irregulars in this station, which is in the district of Foweera, number sixty-five men.
The blacksmith and his natives had lost no time in running back to Fatiko; and the eight irregulars having thrown themselves on the ground, had (the blacksmith supposed) at length explained who they were.
This was an awkward position for Ali Emmeen, who had expected to find allies at Fabbo, but who now found a faithful corps of irregulars with Suleiman at their head acting under my orders.
It would be necessary to form a corps of irregulars under the command of Wat-el-Mek, which I should immediately send to occupy Unyoro.
It was in vain that I endeavoured to explain that these people were subjects of the Khedive, and had now received forgiveness: therefore, as they were engaged as irregulars they must receive their arms.
The blacksmith would protect the irregulars by explaining their new position to any natives who might desire to molest them.
It was difficult to procure natives who would accompany the new irregulars with the letter, as news had arrived that Abou Saood's people were plundering and laying waste the neighbourhood of Fabbo.
And as they discussed things, but before they had time to decide on any plan, the Brigadier commanding the Irregulars got wind of them.
Many of his own irregularswere so enraged at having been disbanded at a moment's notice that they refused to return to him.
The regular force commanded by General Prevost must have amounted to at least three thousand effective men; and this number was increased by irregulars who had joined him in Georgia.
About the time Lord Cornwallis commenced his march from Camden, Clarke advanced against Augusta, at the head of a body of irregulars whom he had collected in the frontiers of North and South Carolina, and invested that place.
Instead of being taken to Lahore, as she expected, we carried her off to Kana Kutch, on the Ferozepoor road, where a party of Wheeler's Irregulars had been sent to receive her.
As yet the Punjaub is quiet, and the Irregulars true.
I fear the 14th Irregulars have joined the mutineers.
We left Delhi during the night of the 14th-15th, and marched to Khurkundah, a large village, in which I had heard that a great number of the rascally Irregulars had taken refuge.
The quiet-looking and English-dressed Hindoo troopers strangely contrasted with the wild Irregulars in all the fanciful ununiformity of their native costume: yet these last are the men I fancy for service.
He melted from his wrath, and told two regiments ofIrregulars to follow my guidance.
The 8th Irregularsfrom Bareilly came into our camp, thanks to the defection of a party of the 9th Irregular Cavalry, who were on picket duty.
On reaching Rohtuck, we found the Mussulman portion of the people, and a crowd of Irregulars drawn up on the walls, while a considerable party were on a mound outside.
At Umbala, he attends a grand muster of troops, and sees the Irregulars for the first time.
But the irregulars were Hakka tribesmen from the savage border, speaking a different language from that he was learning.
With wild screams the Chinese irregulars burst from their cover, brandishing long knives and racing with each other to be first to reach their victims.
He gave the word, and the Irregulars galloped away to their left front to cut them off.
The route thus far was open, for the Delhi column under Hope Grant and Greathed had cleared the way, and fifty mounted Irregulars had little to fear from undisciplined and cowardly budmashes.
As the Horse Artillery and cavalry drew nearer, the Martiniere was quickly deserted, and Boldre's Horse and a few squadrons of regulars and irregulars pursued the sepoys as far as the canal.
At nine o'clock the Soudanese and irregulars lined the bank and opened fire, while the two Maxims came into action.
One of the Arab sheiks of the irregularswas sent to examine the spot, and reported that the Khalifa himself, and almost all his great emirs, lay there dead.
Here the Soudanese were joined by the irregulars who had first crossed, and a terrible fire was maintained, from the sand hills, upon the crowded mass on the bare sand, cut off from all retreat by the deep river.
In consequence of their behaviour on this occasion, the 9th Irregulars were sent away, while the Golundazees who composed Renny's artillery were ordered to be disarmed.
Encamping within shot of the enemy's walls is unheard of in regular warfare; and the irregulars soon found it anything but pleasant.
The enemy's battery now came boldly up, their cavalry manoeuvred on the left flank of the brigade, large numbers of their infantry and irregulars got into the villages behind us, and the position became more and more serious.
Under cover of this artillery fire, the enemy's irregulars advanced.
His irregulars had so ravaged the country that he had the utmost difficulty in feeding his men.
The Tartar irregulars fled and carried confusion to the rest of the army.
On their advance through Thrace the Bulgarian soldiers, assisted by irregulars of Bulgar race, committed atrocities and cruelties on the Turkish population which rivalled all that the Turks in the past had perpetrated.
Khalil led thirty thousand efficient soldiers and a host of Tartar irregulars against him.
I had a circle of outlying pickets supplied by the Kuki irregularswith me, and these were a perpetual safe-guard against surprise during the long dark nights.
They would refuse to recognize men with only improvised uniforms, they would shoot their prisoners--not that I had proposed that my irregulars should become prisoners--and burn the adjacent villages.
In fact Mejia ordered irregulars into Texas on February 16 and March 17, though, as their commander aspired to execute a revolution with American aid, he did us no harm.
Many Mexican irregularsgathered near Saltillo but they accomplished nothing.
Probably there were bodies of irregulars at points not named above.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irregulars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
