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Example sentences for "quarters were"

  • In full expectation of a battle to the north of Paris, the King had ridden out to join the Guard Corps, and in the evening his head-quarters were moved to Ferrieres.

  • Cornwallis's head-quarters were at the house of Governor Nelson.

  • General Howe's quarters were in a house on High Street, one door east from the southeast corner of Sixth Street, where President Washington resided.

  • General Lee was not through with his instructions for our march when a staff-officer came in and reported that the lines in front of his head-quarters were broken.

  • His head-quarters were on Seminary Ridge at the crossing of the Cashtown road.

  • General Sumner's head-quarters were by the house of Mr. Phillips, north of the river.

  • Jackson's head-quarters were at Cold Harbor during that engagement.

  • Meade's head-quarters were in a grove, east of the small house where he established himself at the beginning of the battle.

  • Meade's quarters were in the house over which a flag is flying.

  • Washington's head-quarters were established at New Windsor, on the Hudson.

  • About ten thousand belonged to Massachusetts, and were under the command of General Artemas Ward, whose head-quarters were at Cambridge.

  • He had secured the pass of the Tay at Perth, where his head-quarters were established, and made himself master of the whole fruitful province of Fife, and all the sea-coast on that side of the Frith of Edinburgh.

  • Osman and his brother Ahmed for some time carried on a thriving business in European cutlery, cottons, ostrich feathers, and slaves, and their head-quarters were at Souakim.

  • The head-quarters were established at the latter place on the 12th December.

  • A strong detachment was always maintained at the former, whilst the head-quarters were established at the latter.

  • Their head- quarters were in Britain, to which those who aspired to initiation in the more profound mysteries repaired for instruction; but they were spread universally over Gaul and the British Islands.

  • A hundred and thirty ships, the best which were to be had, were disposed in squadrons along the east shore of the Adriatic; the head-quarters were at Corfu; and the one purpose was to watch the passage and prevent Caesar from crossing over.

  • Putnam's quarters were at a house situated on the Norwalk and Danbury Road, about three miles westward of the Congregational Church in Reading.

  • His head-quarters were at a house (still standing) a few rods eastward of the rail-way station.

  • Putnam was in the Highlands, with fifteen hundred men; his head-quarters were at Peekskill.

  • My quarters were contiguous to the breech made by Wellington in 1813—now distinguished only by the new appearance of the rebuilt wall.

  • Head-quarters were now at Breviesca, but the town not affording accommodation sufficient for the whole Legion, several regiments were quartered in the adjacent villages.

  • Head-quarters were at Grenalda, some miles distant from where we lay, and a company of our regiment occasionally did duty over the Duke, whose quarters were in the house of the Alcalde.

  • The houses or quarters were also of poles, open; in fact, the whole concern could hardly be called a passable corral, or pen for horses and cattle.

  • About the middle of November, Mrs. Whitman's quarters were ready, and she came to occupy them.

  • In June the head-quarters were removed to Belfast, in July to Armagh, and in September returned to Belfast.

  • And yet the camp was not without its gayeties either; for while the head-quarters were wintering at Rawitcz, the town became the scene of great festivities; balls and parties succeeding each other as rapidly as battles had done before.

  • His own head-quarters were at "Jefferson's Plantation.


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