The men advanced in open order to assault the first line of kopjes, where as yet no sign whatever of the enemy could be discovered.
Then, first Lyttelton's and afterwards Coke's Brigades deployed and inopen order descended to the river.
But at length the British troops deployed and advanced in open order, company by company, in desperate rushes towards the ford.
It was taken under fire, and is a quite typical view of a modern battlefield--the infantry advancing in open order, the gunners taking what shelter their gun affords.
These ride up in open order, and are at once made a mark of by the Boer riflemen, luckily at long range.
Rimington led us straight towards the hills in open order, and when we were somewhere about rifle range from them, we right turned and galloped in line along their front; but no gun or rifle spoke.
They turned around in open order, formed in a hollow square, and I turned around and came away with the young man, and I took him off the track, and started him down towards Penn street.
In open order, one facing to the rear and the other to the front?
The rear rank got the command, To the rear, open order, march.
The Downs were very suitable for drill and work in open order.
After this I left the "report centre" and was passing through a territorial regiment which was advancing in open order when a man called out from the ranks, "Is that you, Colonel Currie?
By this time the relieving troops could be seen advancing in open order a short distance away.
I watched them attack in open order at about three paces interval through a turnip field, the officer following behind with a drawn sword.
I ordered a general advance in open order, about four yards apart; thus twenty men covered a line of about seventy-six paces.
Ah, one of the two commissioners who signed the `open order,' with which the country was instigated to rise in insurrection?
While Andreas Hofer was dictating his "open order" with a firm and thoughtful air, the peasants stood dumfounded with admiration, staring at him with a feeling of awe, and delighted with his sagacity and understanding.
Skirmishing they took to naturally, which was fortunate, as practically all our fighting was done in open order.
However, open order is necessary to economize losses and permit the use of weapons.
Armies of to-day gain decisions by action in open order, where each soldier must act individually with will and initiative to attack the enemy and destroy him.
Perhaps combat in open order predominates, and the companies of light infantrymen being, above all, skirmishers, the battalion again is no longer supported.
This weakness is greater to-day in that the moral action of weapons is more powerful, and that the material rank has the inherent lack of cohesion of open order.
The men advanced at the double in open order, and the moment they were seen by the Boers a continuous fire of musketry was opened.
As, in open order, with their rifles at the trail, the Inniskillings appeared in view, a terrible fire broke out from every ledge of Railway Hill, while the cannon joined in the roar.
For it is true that man has now not only to learn to fight in open order instead of in a phalanx, but he has to think and plan and act in open order, to live in open order.
Troops attacking in close order have certain advantages over those attacking in open order.
Then, again, an attack delivered in mass formation brings much more weight to bear on the part of the enemy's line against which it is directed than an attack in open order.
Returning his field glasses and confidently snapping the lid of the case Wilmshurst gave the word to advance in open order.
The front attack stopped dead, the Askaris in open order falling in heaps before the accurate fire of the trained Rhodesians.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "open order" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
