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Example sentences for "native troops"

  • Towards the end of the year it marched to Barrackpore for the purpose of suppressing a mutiny amongst the Company's native troops at that place; and after the performance of this painful duty it returned to Calcutta.

  • The Indian authorities at Simla inclined to the despatch of the force at Quetta, comprising seven regiments of native troops, from Bombay.

  • Another subject which nearly concerns the welfare of the Congo State is the recruiting and use of native troops.

  • The fifth column, consisting chiefly of native troops, was destined for a reserve.

  • That same year the famous warrior Datu Daniel Amil Bahar died; and Puerta Princesa, capital of Palawan, was garrisoned by native troops.

  • We may therefore safely conclude that a force of 2,000 native troops stationed in Sulu was sufficient for all purposes and considerations.

  • He appointed him Commandant-General of the South, and sent him with a division of native troops to stamp out the embers of insurrection kept alive by Guerrero.

  • At this juncture the flotilla and a battalion of native troops revolted in the name of the King.

  • The employment of native troops was in accordance with his instructions, but the measure produced discontent in his ranks.

  • At this point the camp followers and native troops fled as best they could, the Zulus killing with the assegai all they could lay hands on.

  • Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General in 1854, saw the danger of this great preponderance of Native troops.

  • It was garrisoned by about 3000 native troops, with a mere handful of white soldiers.

  • As on similar occasions, arrangements were made to send to that place a small body of native troops, those detailed for the purpose being men of the 53rd N.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    armed soldiers; bodily exercise; charge them; dramatic representation; falling body; little faster; native cavalry; native church; native city; native cloth; native country; native industry; native land; native life; native name; native names; native place; native state; native town; native village; native woman; native women; poor beggar; spake before; take kindly; will pour