A British force was stationed at Bamian beyond it in 1840, with an outpost at Saighan.
The value of Chitral as an outpost of British India may be best gauged by its geographical position.
While his allies were being defeated, Prince Charles of Lorraine had done nothing, believing that the cannonade was merely an outpost affair for the possession of the Spitzberg.
Dumoulin advanced on Pilgramshain, neglecting the fire of the Saxon outpost on the Spitzberg, whereupon this promptly retired in order to avoid being surrounded.
The time traders had their evidence when they at last ventured into what had been the heart of Outpost Gog.
The two men were on their way to Outpost Gog, where Ashe's first partner, the redoubtable Sanford, was playing his role so well.
It was clear why Outpost Gog could not report the disaster.
Let us find their outpost and we'll withdraw our men from all the other runs at once.
What makes everyone so sure that they have an outpost somewhere?
I should be safe enough in the latter, even if we had no outpost stationed there.
A few days afterward, Theodore Korner, the youthful poet and hero, fell in a skirmish between the French and Wallmoden's outpostat Gadebusch.
One of the most beautiful views in the Cibao Valley, and in the world, is obtained from the historic eminence of Santo Cerro, an outpost hill of the central range, situated about three miles from the city of La Vega.
About three miles from the town the small fortress of San Geronimo is passed, a romantic structure, built by the early Spaniards as an outpost against piratical invasions.
Sentry on a mound in the outpost pooped off for some reason.
Apparently Butindi was the first British outpost that he had struck, as he asked endless questions about others—apparently with a view to visiting them en route to the Base Camp.
Who was he to be in sole charge of a convoy upon whose safe arrival the existence of an outpost depended?
After two days on his camp-bed he was somewhat better, and on the next day he found himself in sole command of the Butindi outpost and a man of responsibility and pride.
He was one of a band of Britain’s soldiers in an outpost of Empire on her far-flung battle-line.
The most westerly outpost of the settlers' advance during the 1860's, Fort Abercrombie became the gateway to the Dakotas.
Another important item I wish to remark upon is the magnificent manner in which this battalion performed outpost duty and night work.
Then the sun, which at its setting had smiled on two thousand men and their blanket shelters, at its rising looked in vain for men or blankets; all were gone, save a few Grenadiers left for outpost duty.
As a proof I have been at this outpost with 150 men for six weeks, where we have absolutely no drink, and there have been only two minor cases brought before me.
These Australians being all mounted men, and of an exceptionally fearless type, have suffered in a very marked degree, in just such outpost affairs, by the arts and horrors of sniping.
The drought had broken, so my long-postponed trip to Pella, that remote outpostof French-Roman Catholicism, could be undertaken.
I left the track and climbed to the top of the Koeberg, the hill from which the big beacon--that farthest outpost of the trigonometrical survey on this side--springs like a startled finger.
That base must be either home ports, or else some solid outpost of the national power, on the shore or the sea; a distant dependency or a powerful fleet.
As a matter of fact, Portugal became a dependent and outpost of England, by which she readily landed in the Peninsula down to the days of Napoleon.
The strain of the night fighting and the heavy details for outpost duty made it imperative to re-enforce General Greene's troops with General MacArthur's brigade, which had arrived in transports on the 31st of July.
No objection was made, and accordingly General Greene's brigade threw forward a heavy outpost line on the "Calle Real" and the beach and constructed a trench, in which a portion of the guns of the Utah batteries was placed.
This glance of mine was an adieu to the last outpost of European civilisation.
Understanding that this station formed the last outpost towards the Great Desert, I profited by the opportunity which the return of our escort afforded, and spent the afternoon in writing letters whilst my companions were sleeping.
Orenburg is just as distant from Bokhara as Karatchi, which, being in the Indian territory of Great Britain, might form the outpost of English commerce.
It was the habit of the cavalry, which had so much outpost duty to perform, to be always ready, and cavalry officers were rarely taken by surprise.
He would reach the Difficult outpost in the morning, making an all night ride.
While the fight was raging on the plain, Weber with his outpost was driven in.
If Montreal was the outpost of the colony, Lachine was the outpost of Montreal.
Montreal was the colony's farthest outpost towards the Iroquois.
The first, already mentioned, is that it was part of the Austrian plan to yield their outpost positions with slight resistance and protect their numerically inferior forces in the main strongholds of the mountains.
A German outpost at the bridge held the Dehra Dun Brigade, which was supported by the Jullundur Brigade of the Lahore Division, in its attack farther to the south on the line of the River Des Layes.
Great masses of Germanic reserves were concentrating in northern Hungary, into which the Russians had driven a thin wedge south of Dukla, where they held an isolated outpost near Bartfeld.
Now and again, one little outpostof death had invaded a level spread of turf, much in the manner of human beings who dislike, and live remote from, their kind.
His keen insight into the needs of this western outpost and his determined efforts for the best interests of California will forever place him in the front rank of its rulers.
The fortress of Nutari had been for a long time the outpost of the Japanese against the Ainu on the side of the Sea of Japan.
At first sight it would seem strange that while the fortress of Nutari remained stationary as an outpost for a very long time, there cannot be found any corresponding spot on the Pacific side east of the line.
So close to the border that in the first Boundary Convention, concluded when our diplomatists were in great awe of China's puissance, it was assigned to our neighbours, Sima was a little outpost in the hills.
Working by charts nearly a hundred years old, we approached Victoria Point, the farthest outpost on the south, bordering on the Siamese State of Renoung.
Civilization sets her last outpost at Castonia in the plate-glass windows of Rodburd Ide's store.
And most of the news was of the sort that the humorous Attean lookout, or the equally humorous Squaw Mountain man, considered likely to tease the cranky solitary on the highest and farthest outpost of the chain of lookouts.
There was then a universal feeling of the want of an advanced naval outpost between the Atlantic coast and Europe.
The village during the time of the Great Rebellion was held as a Royalist outpost in the Banbury area.
The fact of an outpost being pushed so far as Wormleighton shows that the Dassett Hills were held by the Parliament forces.
And let me note the fact that here, too, is the tiniest and daintiest parish church in Scotland--the outpost of the Presbytery of Auchterarder in this direction.
At length the party reached the vicinity of Bull's Gap, a railway pass through the mountains, and guarded by Union troops as an outpost of Knoxville.
A challenge to halt Dahlgren answered by a threat, and the commander of the Confederate outpost gave the order instantly to fire.
We have arranged it all--the Captain and I--at the outpost nearest to the river.
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