Sure enough that evening the sergeant-major in charge of the rearguard came in with the missing watch and chain.
Cheerful prospects of rearguard actions all night over unknown country seemed all that was in store for us.
We were told later on that the Turks thought they had only come up against a weak rearguard and were correspondingly dismayed by our gun-fire.
A sudden charge by the rearguardwas ordered and it was made with spirit.
See, our rearguard has lost touch with our main army, leaving a side opening between.
French corps, under the general command of Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers, attacked an Austrian rearguard (part of VIII.
In the centre the Austrian rearguard held out for two hours in several successive positions against the attacks of MacMahon and the Guard.
They were all on their way to Tadcaster, in search of a stronger position, when suddenly the vanguard of Rupert reached the rearguard of the other army at the village of Long Marston.
He was a bold, skilful leader, very different from the Commander-in-Chief, and as his ship formed one of the rearguard he took an early part in the fight with the pursuing English.
As the rearguard moved off from Newberne, after the other troops were well on the road, a body of cavalry was heard approaching, when the regiment halted.
The officer commanding the rearguard put us in charge of a big Dutch corporal and another man, with instructions to bring us on when able to march.
When the rearguard came up to where we were, they commenced to shout at us, "Get up, go on, go on.
I remember that it was a dreadful night, the roar of the wind almost drowning the sound of the distant artillery, which we believed to be fired at our rearguard by the Russians.
The Federal rearguard did their best to cover the retreat.
Soon all the rearguard and heavy guns were inside our position, and then ensued a scene which baffles description.
The Christians continued their toilsome march, Saladin attacked their rear; and for six hours or more that rearguard fought a retreating battle, meeting shock after shock, striking no blow, while the centre and the van watched them.
Two more wild assaults the rearguard took stiffly, at the third they broke in two places, but repelled the Turks.
Rearguard the Earl of Leicester took, his viceroy in Aquitaine.
In the early days, when we thought that we had merely a determined rearguard in front of us, we attacked.
Consequently, to the surprise of both, the advanced guard of the one suddenly found itself in the presence of the rearguard of the other.
A strong rearguard remained to cover the retreat, and on my front the usual encounters between advancing and retreating forces took place.
At Deep Creek the rearguard turned on us, and a severe skirmish took place.
The dangers for the rearguard naturally seemed to Charlemagne to be the greatest, and to his Douzeperes he turned, as before, for counsel.
When the sun set on that welter of blood, not a single Saracen was left, and those of the Frankish rearguard who still lived were very weary men.
I agreed to start in the morning, leaving the head of affairs with the rearguard to follow at his leisure.
Two of our former boat's crew here also appeared, and gave us tidings of our rearguard and baggage.
In the middle of the night the rearguard came in with the supplies, and we at once turned it into an advanced-guard, and packed it off to make preparations for our arrival at "Bimber.
It mentioned great, though merely incidental, rearguard battles, singling out that in which the First British Cavalry Brigade and the Guards Brigade had been engaged near Compiegne.
Why, I remember in one of the passes up in India, we in the rearguard could hear the men talking right away in the front as easily as if we were close to them.
Rearguard closes up on the main body," said John Manning quickly.
For just then the colonel drew his mule aside, and let the rest pass on, while he waited for the rearguard to come up.
We in the rearguard 'll have to be divided into three companies, and keep on retiring one after the other, and taking up fresh ground to protect the baggage-train.
The way you smashed up the Turkish rearguard when it tried to counter-attack across the Jordan made our subsequent advance up the hills of Moab an easy matter.
My orders were to form the rearguard to Chaytor's Force, and all day long the main Column wound its way slowly past Nimrin until 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 24th.
The division never lost its cohesion, and it gave ground only at the rate of two miles a day, which is a proof, if any were needed, of the splendid rearguard action that this much outnumbered force fought.
The slow, punishing, rearguard action it fought allowed the Allies to withdraw all their accumulated stores and munitions and to fall back without congestion into Greek territory again.
For years the German cavalry have been trained inrearguard action such as the work they were now doing.
The steep cliffs rising abruptly from the river-beds afford good defensive positions suitable for rearguard actions, obliging an advancing force to concentrate at defiles.
General Allenby, who had been most ably covering the retreat of the Army with his cavalry, had already materially assisted the rearguard of the 3rd Division to surmount their difficulties at Solesmes.
The only action of importance during the day occurred at Solesmes, when the rearguard of the 3rd Division under McCracken was heavily attacked.
The 4th Division was, however, delayed by a small rearguard action and passed the night south of Dammartin.
Cavalry had already pushed on round the north of Gaza, and became engaged with an enemy rearguard at Beit Hanun, which maintained its position till nightfall.
A hostile rearguard had established itself on this feature.
The force advancing along the coast reached the Wadi Hesi by evening, and succeeded in establishing itself on the north bank in the face of considerable opposition, a Turkish rearguard making several determined counterattacks.
During the 8th the advance was continued, and interest was chiefly centred in an attempt to cut off, if possible, the Turkish rearguardwhich had held the Tank and Atawineh systems.
Twice I dismounted to shoot him, but before I could get the chance I wanted, I was obliged to remount, for the whole of his companions, seeing their rearguard cut off and in difficulties, bore down upon me.
Brigadier Hope's brigade covered all their movements, and Brigadier Greathead's brigade closed in the rear, and formed the rearguard as the troops retired through a long narrow lane, the only road open for them towards the Dilkoosha.
But no sooner had the rearguard passed the houses and fort of this town, than a destructive fire was opened upon it.
It was by the admirable arrangements of this officer that the little band were brought safely off, and soon after reached the palace, with the rearguard of the 90th.
British troops were seen fighting their way through one of the principal streets; and though men fell at every step, onward they gallantly pushed, till the rearguard heavy guns were inside the position.
At midnight, however, a sharp rattle of musketry was heard, and it was supposed that the rearguard were attacked.
A smart brush, however, took place between the rearguard and a few of the British cavalry, in which Cornet Speers, of the 3rd Light Cavalry, and two or three troopers were wounded.
Your men made a great stand, and fought a four days' rearguard action which will figure in the text-books for the next fifty years.
The retreat to the Yser, if swift, was orderly, and the rearguard could be trusted to follow its time-table.
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