Washington always reconnoitred the position of the enemy whenever they were near each other; in the last scenes of the war at Yorktown he was among the first at the outposts examining the British works.
The ground which Knowlton reconnoitredand which became the scene of the action remains to-day unchanged in its principal features.
General Putnam is stated never to have reconnoitred the enemy's position.
The country beyond Akasha had been thoroughly reconnoitred and mapped to within three miles of the Dervish position.
Even before the 21st Lancers had reconnoitred Surgham ridge, the Sirdar had set his brigades in motion towards Omdurman.
The flotilla then steamed slowly past the town, and, having thoroughly reconnoitred it, turned about and ran down stream, again exchanging shells with the Dervish artillery.
The Lancer patrol reconnoitred the khor, at the imminent risk of their lives, while it was only occupied by the original 700 Hadendoa.
In former campaigns it had been reconnoitred and the waterway declared clear.
Broadwood, with the remaining five squadrons, marched thither on the 16th; and the whole cavalry force, with the Camel Corps in support, on the three subsequent days reconnoitred twenty miles up the Nile and the Atbara.
Merritt's withdrawal inspired the Confederates, who forthwith began to press Crook, their line of battle advancing with confidence till it reached the crest whence I had reconnoitred them.
The next day passed quietly over, while Massena carefully reconnoitred the position of his opponent.
Meanwhile Colonel Phayre reconnoitred the country so far as Arogee plain, and the 1st Brigade advanced along the Aficho plateau.
Ainhoue was reconnoitred by Wellington in person, and the plan of the attack arranged.
At noon, on the 5th April, the breaches were reconnoitred and declared practicable; but the assault was deferred for another day to allow the artillery time to batter down the curtain, connecting the bastion with an unfinished ravelin.
On the 15th, a trifling affair of outposts produced a few casualties, and on the 16th, Delaborde’s position was reconnoitred and dispositions made to attack it.
Beresford’s position had been carefully reconnoitred by Soult on the evening of the 15th, and aware that the fourth British division was still before Badajoz, and Blake not yet come up, he determined to attack the marshal without delay.
At length, on the night of the 1st of June, Sir Charles Hotham and the French captain, with some other officers, reconnoitred the locality.
At daylight the following morning the two captains reconnoitred the position of the enemy, and soon discovered that great military skill had been evinced, both in the ground chosen and the plan of defence pursued.
Shortly after the return of this advanced section to the main line of guns, the withdrawal of the latter to previously reconnoitred positions began.
Positions were then reconnoitred 3,000 yards further forward, and at dusk all batteries advanced again.
Five hundred prisoners and many machine-guns were taken, and with the fall of the village one battery of the 162nd Brigade pushed forward to a previously reconnoitred position from which close support of the infantry was possible.
Of these two guns, one was taken away by a team belonging to C/156 to a previously reconnoitred spot north of La Clytte; the other was run forward by hand, with the assistance of nine men of the K.
On the previous day battery commanders had reconnoitred the forward areas with a view to a possible advance should the forthcoming operations prove successful, and at 3.
Longueval had to be reconnoitred and linked up with the batteries by telephone, while the new zone which stretched from the south of Martinpuich to Delville Wood had to be registered before dusk.
Fricourt, headed for the positions which had been reconnoitred on the previous day on the slopes of the valleys running from Caterpillar Wood to Montauban and Bazentin.
On the 15th an armoured train with a small detachment of the Berkshires reconnoitred to a point well beyond Stormberg, and returned, without incident and without seeing anything of the enemy, to Queenstown.
His officers reconnoitred from time to time; patrols and pickets were out; the main force lay in a valley dominated by lofty hills, some point on which he meant to occupy when the approach of the enemy made it necessary.
As soon as they came within sight of the castle Edgar gave the signal to stop, and, keeping well out of sight of watchers on the wall, the two young men reconnoitred it eagerly.
Another and another was disposed of in the same way, and then those that were in a kneeling position were reconnoitred to see if they were still alive, and when found to be so were speedily disposed of by a bullet.
Certain it is that the nest is always reconnoitred by the returning bird with great caution, and any irregularity appearing about it will render her extremely shy of approaching it.
Here Bruin, having looked up and reconnoitred repeatedly, moved upwards; then across the ravine, heading towards us.
Here we stopped, and the country being reconnoitred without a sign of animals we retraced our steps to camp.
Several times during this day they reconnoitred most carefully for the gold-searchers, whom they could see at work far beneath them.
Engelbrecht, in the evening, before sunset, reconnoitred this shoulder, and discovered that with care the descent could be made.
I reconnoitredup and down the river bank in the hope of finding a better place to cross, but the quest was in vain.
Seeking a quiet little spot by the river where I could spend the night and fulfil one of my long-cherished hopes--to bathe in the River Mississippi, I turned down a little road that ran along the bank and reconnoitred the country.
I left her standing in a huge rut in the middle of the road and reconnoitredto see how far this appalling state of affairs continued.
Other machines reconnoitred the battle area, bringing back information as to the positions of our own and the enemy's troops.
Sir Douglas Haig's report next day stated that low-flying machines reconnoitred the battlefront during the day and dropped over 1,200 bombs on the enemy's troops on roads leading to the front.
We camped our troops on high, healthy ground to the south of Chewalla, and after I had personally reconnoitred the country, details of men were made and volunteer locomotive engineers obtained to superintend the repairs.
About half-past two or three o'clock, General Sherman, with another and myself, crept in as close as possible and reconnoitred the position.
McPherson and I reconnoitred the ground well, and then returned to our boats.
But in due season I reconnoitredthe road, and made contracts for repairing some bridges, and for cutting such parts of the road as needed it.
During the night, which was a bright moonlight one, we reconnoitred close up, and found a large number of huts which had been abandoned, and the whole rebel force had fallen back into and about the fort.
On Sunday, the 1st, General Wood with a small escort reconnoitred in advance of the column, which was about five miles in advance of General Newdigate's force.
Penn stole softly up the stairs, and reconnoitred while Grudd and his companions opened the passage in the wall.
The country had already been reconnoitred by that great discoverer of vast regions, Christopher Columbus, who had given it the name of Gracias à Dios; in the native tongue it was called Cerabaro.
But, i'faith, I should not have ventured forth if I had not reconnoitred you through a loophole.
The area to be reconnoitred lies in the bend of the Somme, north of the Villers-Bretonneux--Chaulnes Railway; but the old Somme battlefield lying N.
Then, crossing the objective with a small party, he reconnoitred the approaches to the town, covering the infiltration of the remainder of the Company.
Having returned to his Company, he personally placed a post on his left flank to ensure its safety, and then reconnoitred and established two posts on his right flank.
Having sent back a man, and two fresh and strong horses to assist the dray, I reconnoitred once more our depot of 1839.
Amherst hadreconnoitred the ground and chosen a hillock at the edge of the marsh, less than half a mile from the ramparts, as the point for opening his trenches.
At the end of the month they went again to Crown Point, burned more houses and barns, and reconnoitred Ticonderoga on the way back.
With their aid the engineer, Descombles, reconnoitred the English forts, and came back with the report that success was certain.
Piquet reconnoitred it from his canoe with the eye of a soldier.
He made his way to the rear of the entrenched camp and reconnoitred it, hoping to carry it by assault; but it had a breastwork of stones and logs, and he thought the attempt too hazardous.
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