But thinkest thou my old melon will find himself in the way of glueing the ribbon of the Legion on me for what I have done?
Vandyke, as by the feelings of hereditary loyalty; and the iron bands which overthrew their ranks at Marston Moor, were as devoted to Cromwell as the tenth legion to Caesar, or the Old Guard to Napoleon.
Loyal Legionand Grand Army of the Republic--Chief Engineer J.
Now, do you know what he did on a certain occasion in Flanders, When the rear-guard of his army retreated, the front giving way too, And the immortal Twelfth Legion was crowded so closely together There was no room for their swords?
Those who believe the Scots to be so eminently vain a race, will say that already we are in our opinion the tenth legion of civilization.
Of course, there are those, and they may be legion today, who would deride every plan to make the moving pictures the vehicle of esthetic education.
But there is no doubt that the formal changes of the pictorial presentation will be legion as soon as the photoartists give their attention to this neglected aspect.
Then the ministerial papers hinted that henceforward the order of St. Louis was to be the only military order; and that the legion of honour was to be the reward of civil merit.
On the 15th of March, the Count d'Artois wished to form a legion from the light infantry and grenadiers of the national guard of Paris.
In vain was the lustre and the prerogative, of which the legion of honour had been despoiled, offered to be restored to it.
In despite of the most solemn engagements the government robbed the legion of honour of its prerogatives.
Yet one sure method of debasing the legion of honour was completely in the power of government; they could make it cheap, and to this plan they resorted.
It was for the brave men like him and you," said he to them, "that I instituted the Legion of Honour, and not for emigrants pensioned by our enemies.
He expressed to them his desire of knowing the brave men, who had most distinguished themselves; and on their unanimous testimony, he granted on the spot the decoration of the Legion of Honour to the mayor of St. Jean Delonne.
Richly endowed asylums for the daughters of the deceased members of the legionhad been founded by the Emperor.
The daughters of the members of the legion of honour had claims to his remembrance, and his consolation, too sacred, not to participate in his favours.
Another decree from Lyons had indiscriminately abolished all promotions in the legion of honour, and in the army, made since the royal restoration.
As Grassou took a creditable part on the occasion of the riots of May 12th he was appointed an officer of the Legion of honor.
To enter the Institute and obtain the grade of officer of the Legion of honor; to side down beside Schinner and Leon de Lora, to reach the Academy before Bridau, to wear a rosette in his buttonhole!
Legion of honor to this son of a peasant who had fought for the royal cause in 1799.
Fougeres had the cross of the Legion of honor, and Elie Magus bought his pictures at two and three hundred francs apiece, so he gave himself the airs of a fine artist.
During the vehement discussions this new sort of bell scarcely sufficed to cover the voices of this legion of excited artillerymen.
The tenthlegion solemnly thanked Caesar for his confidence in its men and officers, the other legions, one after the other, declared their readiness to follow, and the whole army left Vesontio the very next morning.
Early on the 26th his patrols were driven in by the enemy's light troops, and in a few moments the Legion and light infantry were seen advancing, followed by the whole army.
A second and third charge had the same result, but being outflanked by the Legion infantry, Davie withdrew his companies in good order, they successively covering each other, and retreated on the Salisbury road.
The Legion formed at a distance of three hundred yards with a front to fill the street.
He ordered Davie to fall back on Charlotte, but he replied that his men had formed the acquaintance of Tarleton's Legion and did not fear to meet them again.
According to Erdfurt, this legionwas so named from its contumacious and mutinous disposition.
But the most important death in our ranks was that of Vetranio, a gallant soldier who commanded the legion of Zianni.
In the garrison of this town, the fifth or Parthian legionwas always located with a considerable squadron of native cavalry.
Baron Gouraud was one of the generals who took the church of Saint-Merry, delighted to rap those rascally civilians who had vexed him for years over the knuckles; for which service he was rewarded with the grand cordon of the Legion of honor.
Colonel Gouraud wore the cross of an officer of the Legion of honor, and his emoluments from that, together with his salary as a retired officer, gave him in all about three thousand francs a year.
Such prescribed tactics would serve an officer as the perfectly clear and well defined tactics of the Roman legion served the legion commander.
To the latter he added the 8th in order to form something like a full legion from the two, and ordered them to support one another.
He therefore withdrew immediately from his third line a cohort from each legion (six cohorts), in order to form a fourth line, placed it to receive Pompey's cavalry and showed it what it had to do.
In this way the cohorts of a legion were, in battle, always supported by cohorts of the same legion.
The organization of the legion of Marshal Saxe shows the strength of the tendency toward shock action as opposed to fire action.
The legion was not increased simply to make numbers or mass.
The legionfrom Cilicia was placed on the right wing together with the Spanish cohorts of Afranius.
The Roman velites, light-armed soldiers, of the primitive legionbefore Marius, were required to stand for an instant in the intervals of the maniples, while awaiting the onset.
Titinius, after sending Caius Cassius, military tribune, to Ariminum, to take the command of the legion there, held a levy at Rome.
At the right gate of the first cohort he formed the spearmen of the first legion, placing the first-rank men of the same legion in reserve: Marcus Servilius and Lucius Sulpicius, military tribunes, had the command of these.
Roman knight of the Pompeian party, stirred up war in Syria; the legion left there under the command of Sextus Caesar, having slain their commander, and revolted to Bassus.
At length an express was despatched to call in the third legionand the out-post of the Gauls; and at the same time the troops began to march back from all parts in order to retake the camp, and wipe off their disgrace.
The third legion was drawn up opposite to the left gate of the first cohort, with this difference only, that here the first-rank men were posted in front, and the spearmen in reserve.
Lucius Albinus, a man of consular rank, was ordered to lead on the second legionagainst the phalanx of the Leucaspides, which formed the centre of the enemy's line.
Then also the number of men in each legion was limited to five thousand foot and three hundred and thirty horse.
While they were engaged, the fifth legion came up, and afterwards the rest of the troops joined them with all the speed they could.
Instigates the second legion to oppose the triumph of P.
Titus and Caius AElius, military tribunes, led out the third legion on the road towards Aquileia, in support of those that went for food and forage.
The old soldiers were to be discharged, so that there should be in each Roman legion no more than six thousand foot and three hundred horse.
He was made chevalier of theLegion of Honour in 1875.
Napoleon admired those fellows greatly, and more than one among them left Erfurt with the cross of the Legion at his breast.
Esthetes, supermen, Socialist Ministers, they were all agreed when it was a question of feasting to celebrate some promotion in the Legion of Honor founded by the Corsican officer.
As a result of this treachery, Pierre was regarded by his fellow-citizens as the saviour of the town, and the Government subsequently appointed him Receiver of Taxes, decorating him with the Cross of the Legion of Honour.
Failure seems to have accompanied him, for in 1831 he applied for and obtained an appointment, as lieutenant in the Foreign Legion in Algeria.
A multi-millionaire, he had been member of the County Council since 1855, and on the day he retired he had been made Commander of the Legion of Honour.
He received the Cross of the Legion of Honour after Rougon's return to office, and an appointment as Inspector.
Eugene Rougon refused to nominate him as an officer of the Legion of Honour, and gave the decoration which had been intended for him to Bejuin.
He was a handsome man, who started his career as a substitute; but through his connections and his wife he had been elected deputy and made grand officer of the Legion of Honour.
He was a stout man, forty-five years old, with an expressive face and long grey hair; recently he had become a member of the Institute and an officer of the Legion of Honour.
By this time he had become very rich, was decorated with the Legion of Honour, and was desirous of giving the impression of an enlightened taste for art.
He was a former winner of the Grand Prize, and was architect of the Civil Branch of Public Works, an officer of the Legion of Honour, and a member of the Institute.
I joined the Hampton Legion this morning, and we are off to Virginia,--Hurrah!
The day appointed for the company to which Harry belonged to join the Legion in Virginia came all too soon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
