The part of the reserve that is still formed or is best under control is sent forward in pursuit and vigorously attacks the enemy's main body or covering detachments wherever found.
Patrols or parties posted to prevent hostile reconnaissance should relieve the main body of the necessity of betraying its position by firing on small bodies of the enemy.
Mouton's main body is in rear of intrenchments on Madame Meade's plantation, six miles below Centreville.
Sheridan having lost touch with the main body of the Confederates in returning down the valley, he, in common with Grant and with the government, now thought that Early had quitted the region for good.
What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady[1623] in the fountain of our love?
Do you think, my lords, 105 The king will suffer but the little finger Of this man to be vex'd?
I also relieved the three hundred Bazingers and sixty regulars daily from the main body.
On the 13th he thought that Beaulieu's main body was at Dego and Colli's at Millesimo, and on this assumption had to exact the most extraordinary efforts from Augereau's troops at Cossaria.
Kinsky meanwhile with the fourth column had made feints opposite Pont-a-Tressin, and had forced the passage of the Marque near Bouvines with his main body.
How was he to imagine that such an immense force was arrayed against him when the Commander-in-chief had with him a superior force to that left in the camp avowedly to operate against the enemy's main body?
First of all he had to wait for Colonel Glyn and the main body to come up to him.
No halt was called till we came upon the enemy's main body, under Colonel Faulkner, drawn up in line of battle near Newland's store.
Action in case of firing on main body; advance and counterfire, deployed.
Main body may be opposite most important point of the train, usually opposite its center.
The enemy's main body, he was told, had already marched, and the troops which had opposed him were under orders to move to Harper's Ferry the next morning.
Between the right wing and the main body, with whom was the king, were the Black Bands, commanded by the Duke of Suffolk.
Bourbon next directed his victorious lanz-knechts against the right wing of the French, which had become detached from the main body of the army and enveloped it, as he had done the Black Bands.
Avoiding the intrenchments thrown around the main body of the French army, Pomperant approached a point where there were fewest difficulties in the way, and, dashing past the sentinels, succeeded in gaining the wood bordering the park.
Daylight was beginning to dawn, and the west gate was at this time found to be the principal scene of action; indeed, it was in that direction that the main body of the Chinese seem to have advanced.
They are neglecting us," he said to Adherbal, "until they have finished with the main body; we must go to their assistance.
They swept before them the skirmishers and Gaulish horse, and fell with fury upon the main body, cleaving a way far into its ranks.
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