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Example sentences for "picket guard"

  • Terrible Excitement in Boston 490detailed a picket guard of eight men with unloaded muskets, and sent them to the relief of the sentinel.

  • Nixon crossed the creek to the plain, and surprised a picket guard at Fort Hardy; and Glover was about to follow him, when a British soldier was seen hastily fording the stream.

  • That occurred near the Van Cortlandt House, two miles east of Peekskill, between some American pickets at the foot of Gallows Hill, and a picket guard of the enemy at the base of the eminences opposite.

  • The neighboring tribes, instead of constituting a picket guard to hem in his servants, would have been far more likely to sweep them and him into captivity, as they did Lot and his household.

  • The skirmish Major Burd speaks of occurred in the vicinity of Thirty-eighth and Fortieth streets, on the Narrows Road, where former residents used to say the Americans had a picket guard stationed.

  • The latter part of August, I commanded in a picket guard at Flatbush, where the enemy was encamped, who marched by the East wing of the Pickets, and formed a line between us and our encampments, and knowing the Gen.

  • Each section of our battery went to the outer edge of the town on picket guard.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bids them; died young; each instrument; extreme cold; fine quality; formidable force; general tendency; happen next; infectious disease; little sign; moist heat; month before; native industry; picket duty; picket guard; picket line; quite naked; resinous substance; return again; skirmish line; small birds; supernatural powers; things pertaining; this conception