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Example sentences for "military post"

  • I never learned what became of him in after years, but I did learn that Corporal Butler remained in the service all his life and died only recently at a military post at Sackett's Harbor, N.

  • About the first of June orders were issued to abandon Fort Pierre, as it was most unsuitable for a military post.

  • That the location was desirable is proved by the fact that it has been used as a military post up to the present time, and is now in the midst of a large reservation.

  • It was interesting to watch the arrival of a band of Indians at a military post.

  • This was a military post on Petites Coquilles island, in Orleans parish, Louisiana, 35 miles E.

  • Keating, 1824, received its name from having been recommended by the late General Pike, in his journal, "as a position well calculated for the construction of a military post to command the Mississippi.

  • No doubt, by so doing, he thought he was imitating something of the kind which he had seen done at a military post.

  • In viewing Cape York as the probable site of a future settlement or military post, an important feature to be noticed is the comparative abundance of fresh water at the very close of the dry season.

  • The Britomart remained behind for several years as a tender to this naval station, or military post--for either term is equally applicable, and was afterwards succeeded in her charge by H.

  • It is thought that a military post, to which our ships of war might resort, would afford protection to every interest, and have a tendency to conciliate the tribes to the North West, with whom our trade is extensive.

  • It finally ended in the establishment of a military post in the vicinity of the battle-ground, for the permanent occupation of the country.

  • The company to which I was attached was quartered at Fort Duncan, a military post on the Rio Grande opposite the little town of Piedras Negras, on the boundary line between the United States and the Republic of Mexico.

  • These men are gentlemen, sent here by the government to establish a military post, and if you treat them nicely you will receive the same kind of treatment.

  • The rebels retreated west and the Federals again established a military post at Springfield.

  • It is from these regulations that the following sketch of the routine life at a military post is built up.

  • A mail route from Montreal into Upper Canada was also established, but this was rather a military post, intended to serve the military stations and frontier settlements.

  • Orders will be dispatched this very night to the troops marching against the Duke of Monmouth, to occupy Danvers's New Church as a military post, and apprehend you if you are found there.

  • Quebec continued for many years to be hardly more than a military post.

  • En route from Constantine by railway no towns or cities of note are passed until the great military post of Batna is reached.

  • The Turks in turn built a fortress on the same site, and the French occupied it as a military post in 1846, giving it a second baptism in the name of the Duc d'Aumale, the son of Louis-Philippe.

  • It is called by the Arabs the pearl of the Djérid, and is a military post, and the bled, or market town, for untold thousands of desert nomads.

  • I have been much with the army in my own country, but never saw a military post of two buildings where one structure was a chapel.

  • Very soon it became a military post, and its importance increased with the commencement of hostilities between Russia and the Western powers in 1854.


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