The artillery was accompanied by a guard of thirty musqueteers and fifty canoneers.
After interrogating this man, they advanced to the openings of the wall which surrounded the camp, which they found guarded by some musqueteers and pikemen.
Wishing to gain possession of the vessel, Carvajal concealed twenty musqueteers near the coast, and made the appointed signal.
At daylight, a party of musqueteers belonging to Gonzalo was observed in march to gain possession of a height in the neighbourhood of the royal camp.
These men took immediately the road for Guamanga, and used such expedition that, though Acosta sent off sixty mounted musqueteers to pursue them, they made their escape in safety.
Thirty musqueteers were likewise advanced from the army of Centeno, to skirmish with those of the insurgents.
To prevent this, he sent Jerom de Villegas with thirty mounted musqueteersto intercept the two messengers now on their way to the army.
Next day, Centeno sent fifteen well mounted musqueteers to bid defiance to Carvajal, and to challenge him to battle.
These were launched into the river without being perceived by the Indians; and forty musqueteers and crossbow-men were embarked in each with a few horses, and these pushed across the river with the utmost diligence.
Two days afterwards, the commanders of the ships were informed that the judges and their partizans had come to the resolution of sending a strong force of musqueteers in boats to make themselves masters of the ships by force.
Dragoons and Musqueteers fired all at once upon those who guarded the bridge, and the Field-pieces played so warmly, that some hundreds of the Rebels were slain; the rest flying to the main body on the moor.
They accordingly got all up, while Captain Castro and his musqueteerswere skirmishing with the troops of Don Diego; who likewise continued his march, and drew up in order of battle.
Martin Cote who commanded a company of musqueteers on the side of Almagro, advanced to that side and began to skirmish with the adversemusqueteers of Nunno de Castro.
This was a little parlour, where the Captain of musqueteershad been regaling himself for the last hour over a jorum of ale, in solitary rumination.
For example I do here set down the beginning of this list: So to prepare matches or fuses that they shall give out no smell, seeing that by such smell musqueteers be often betrayed and their plans defeated.
When I came to the first sentries I tried to pass; but two musqueteers made at me, who seized me and took me off to their guard-room.
But even when I deemed my reputation to be at its height, came five-and-twenty musqueteers from Rehnen, who laid me and my comrades by the heels.
And thither at one o'clock of the day, when we did least expect it, came six musqueteers with a corporal to our hut with their pieces ready and their matches burning, who burst in the door and cried to us to surrender.
And these people did call coat-beaters, because they were wont to dust the jackets of the poor pikemen, and to give the musqueteers oil enough to grease their barrels with.
Our musqueteers had been brought to the very edge of the Bussex Rhine, and the Royal troops had also advanced as far as they were able, so that there were not five pikes'-lengths between the lines.
Let the musqueteers stand close, sergeant, lest they fly at me.
On each side of us rode dragoons, and in front and behind were companies of musqueteers to prevent any attempt at rescue or escape.
Rat me, if I dare look my musqueteers in the face again unless I bring them something to toast upon the end of their ramrods!
Behind them were musqueteers from Dorchester, pikemen from Newton Poppleford, and a body of stout infantry from among the serge workers of Ottery St. Mary.
I fear that they will scarce be as forward when there is a line of musqueteers to be faced, and a brigade of horse perhaps charging down upon their flank.
His musqueteers being better provided with powder than ours did good service by keeping down for a time the deadly fire from across the fosse.
The baronet's musqueteers mustered a full hundred, skilled for the most part in the use of the gun.
Well, I would that I could travel with you, but Saxon will not hear of it, and my musqueteers must be my first care.
The entrance into the river or haven was shut up by massy chains suspended upon vessels, behind which eighty vessels were drawn up full of archers and musqueteers to defend the passage.
Drawing near the fort, they killed six Portuguese; but 300 musqueteers attacked them from the fort and drove them away with the loss of fifty men.
On the second day after the return of Don Christopher to the army, the king of Zeyla began to shew himself more bold than usual, trusting to the great reinforcement of Turkish musqueteers he had procured from Zabid.
Antonio de Silva was sent against him from Cochin with 200 musqueteers in fifteen small vessels, on which Cunale took refuge in a bay on the coast called Canamnera, where he fortified himself.
His musqueteers killed at least 300 of them, and pursued the rest to a bridge which led into the city.
He solicited the assistance of the Moslem princes, and by inflaming their religious zeal, obtained a reinforcement of 2000 musqueteers from the Arabs, and a train of artillery from the Turks of Yemen.
Resolved to revenge their general, the musqueteers demanded the post opposite Mohammed, and directed all their efforts against the part where the Moslem Attila stood.
On reaching land, the party was conducted by a file of musqueteers into the fort, and kindly received by the governor, who enquired what they were, and whence they came?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "musqueteers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
