On reconnoitring the front in person, during the 27th and 28th, I became satisfied that General A.
But Alexander took the light infantry and the cavalry Companions and went all round, reconnoitring the whole country where he was about to fight the battle.
The pause which followed was not strictly necessary, for the Widow Brett had been reconnoitring every movement of the new-comers through a crack in the window-blind, and was now standing in the little entry, not two feet from the door.
Martha, who had been reconnoitring through a crack of the window-blind, now uttered an exclamation.
For many days, Grant was occupied in reconnoitring and feeling his adversary.
Early in the day Napoleon had observed a group of reconnoitring officers and ordered that ten cannon be prepared at once.
As he was reconnoitring the coast at the very moment that danger seemed over a strange sail appeared on the verge of the horizon: "Fortune!
A reconnoitring party being now sent up the Brook turnpike toward the city, dashed across the South Fork of the Chickahominy, drove a small force from the enemy's exterior intrenchments and went within them.
These reconnoitringparties exhibited considerable boldness at times, but since they had no purpose in view save to discover whether or not we were moving, I did not contest any ground with them except about our outposts.
He examines it with the look of one who has conceived a scheme, and is reconnoitring the terrain, to see if it will suit.
Whereas the cloaked cavalier appeared desirous of overtaking some one in advance, he in the red blanket coat seemed altogether to occupy himself in reconnoitring towards his rear.
In the evening, about 9 o'clock, Wrangel's reconnoitring party comes in.
That evening two reconnoitring parties were sent out; the first, from the Tabel Kop direction, came in next morning with a wounded man.
I went off to wake the men quietly, for we hoped to surprise this little reconnoitring party.
Several times they saw parties of British horse riding over the plains and from a distance reconnoitring the position, and they wondered whether there could be any intention on the part of Colonel Wood to attack it.
On Sunday, the 1st of June, General Wood with a small escort was out reconnoitring in advance of his column, which was about five miles in front of the force of General Newdigate.
At daybreak on the 20th the reconnoitring force crossed the river.
The whole of the Lydenburg district, in which we were operating, was besides enveloped in a thick mist, and both these causes rendered reconnoitring very difficult and perilous, as we never knew how near the enemy's patrols might be.
The enemy came straight up to us, and had obviously been carefully reconnoitring our positions.
After going round and reconnoitring the hill, and finding that it admitted of being ascended only at two points, he led his army to them and set up his siege artillery at these points.
When the assembly had been dismissed, the reconnoitringparty of Numidians returned in headlong flight, after losing more than half their numbers.
Before the force left a reconnoitring party had been sent up to Kamaing, and had reported the road to be very difficult.
Intelligence Officer, who was surveying and reconnoitring for a further move to the south, was attacked.
Out reconnoitring they had discovered a party of Huns and had bombed them very effectually.
The kopje, he decided, was to be the extreme limit of his reconnoitring expedition.
Finally the darkness and rain on the bursting of the storm would enable him to get back without so much chance of being spotted, for on reconnoitring it is on the return journey that casualties to the scouts happen most frequently.
This officer, who was a great loss to Murat, was employed in reconnoitring the left of the enemy's position.
The subsequent hours he spent in reconnoitring the ground, and in waiting for the arrival of the other corps.
And reconnoitring parties would again have had to follow them, with similar results, probably losing men every time, and gaining nothing.
I was out with a boyreconnoitring a hill occupied by enemy.
Slight skirmishes took place frequently during this period, and now and then heavy demonstrations were made in the neighborhood of Nolensville by reconnoitring parties from both armies, but none of these ever grew into a battle.
Sheridan was engaged reconnoitring the banks of the Chickahominy, to find crossings and the condition of the roads.
Later in the day in reconnoitring I found a church off to the south of the road, which looked to me as if the belfry would command the ground back of the garita San Cosme.
By reconnoitring they were enabled to locate the roads in the vicinity of each army corps.
The National troops were always behind intrenchments, except of course the small reconnoitring parties sent to the front to clear the way for an advance.
The cavalry was used in this advance in reconnoitring to find the roads: to cover our advances and to find the most practicable routes from one command to another so they could support each other in case of an attack.
I came very near being shot myself while reconnoitringin the second story of a house on our picket-line, which was struck several times by cannon-shot, and perfectly riddled with musket-balls.
Our reconnoitring patrols discovered, however, that the enemy already had possession of the village of Sailly-Laurette, and of Marett and Treux Woods, but that he was not yet in great strength on the crest of the plateau.
Commanders will ensure that the numbers of officers reconnoitring the enemy's positions is limited to those for whom such reconnaissance is essential.
The ardour of his troops was only enhanced when they heard that General Rosenthal himself, while reconnoitringfrom the Mound, had been sniped at and had received a nasty wound in the arm.
Our reconnoitring and gun-spotting machines were quartering the ground in search of targets, the scout machines sweeping to and fro above them ready to drop on any hostiles which tried to interrupt them in their work.
The night before the Push a reconnoitring Squadron had discovered a fresh group of enemy batteries, and Headquarters allotted the destruction of these to various batteries in conjunction with certain artillery flying Squadrons.
I kept up an almost daily correspondence with General Granger, concerning the information obtained by scouts and reconnoitring parties, and he came often to Rienzi to see me in relation to this and other matters.
He led his horse to the water, close by where I was sitting, so that I had a fair opportunity of reconnoitring him.
In an instant he was at his loophole reconnoitring the slattern spouse of the water-carrier, decorated with the splendor of an eastern bride.
His army also approached that place, as if designing to invest it; but, after reconnoitring the works, and observing the steady countenance of the garrison, he thought it too late to lay siege to the fortress.
Major Thayer applied to the Commodore to remove these vessels, and he ordered six galleys on the service; but, after reconnoitring their situation, the galleys returned without attempting any thing.
The first moments after his arrival in camp were employed in reconnoitring the enemy, and examining the strength and situation of the American troops.
Having passed the day in reconnoitring the right, Sir William Howe changed his ground in the course of the night, and moving along the hills to his right, took an advantageous position, about a mile in front of the American left.
Flora, of 36 guns, under the command of Captain Otway Bland, had been cruizing off the Texel, for the purpose of reconnoitring the ships of the enemy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reconnoitring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
