It is true, of course, that the untrained American troops failed to vanquish the British army at Bunker Hill, but the monument at that spot celebrates the fact that for two hours the attacks of the regulars were withstood.
The British regulars dwelt in a small fort at one end of the town, where they had two light guns; but Clark feared lest, if he made a sudden night attack, the townspeople and Indians would from sheer fright turn against him.
Rushing forward, Clark's men soon penned the regulars within their fort, where they kept them surrounded all night.
That such instances of negligence should be tolerated for six months in any regiment of regulars is a thing almost inconceivable, and yet in these cases the regiments and the officers had been nearly three years in service.
Realizing the imminence of an attack, he constructed a rude fortification at Great Meadows, which he called Fort Necessity, and here the rest of the Virginia troops and the regulars from South Carolina were concentrated.
Twice the British regularswere repulsed, and had Greene followed up the success, he might have won a victory.
But after great efforts had been made by the New England colonies and New York, the British regulars were diverted to Portugal, and the conquest of Canada had to be abandoned.
The bravery and discipline of the English regulars proved of little avail against the invisible enemy and they soon broke and fled.
The regulars stood firm for a time, but when DeKalb fell mortally wounded and Tarleton's cavalry swept along their flank and rear, the line gave way and the retreat turned into a rout.
Leaving eight hundredregulars to protect the settlements, he gathered two thousand men at Ft.
In January an attempt was made to take Martinique, but the French force of ten thousand regulars and militia prevented the occupation.
The only outside troops which immediately came were a company of regulars from South Carolina sent by royal order.
The governor organized a campaign, himself leading the Virginia regulars down the Ohio, while the frontier levies were led by Colonel Andrew Lewis.
Though the colonials technically had suffered a defeat, great was the rejoicing over the battle, for colonial troops had proven their prowess against the British regulars and had taken a toll of two for one.
His sarcasm was the more effective when it is known that eight hundred French regulars were in the colony, and that as many more were on the way.
Montcalm's command contained three thousand French regulars in Canada and eleven hundred at Louisbourg, two thousand trained colonials, and about fifteen thousand militia.
The regulars went on to Concord where another encounter occurred at the old North Bridge where the British had stationed a guard.
As the English advanced forces were crossing a ravine they were attacked by the French and Indians, who spread out on either side and fought from behind trees, while the English regulars wheeled into line and returned the fire.
There were, of course, some disagreeable things about headquarters too, and we of the Regulars had a standing fight with a lot of fancy boys who came down from Philadelphia that year.
Lieutenant Slemmer a short time previously moved his little force of regulars across the bay to Fort Pickens, which was on a spit or spur of Santa Rosa Island, almost immediately opposite, but I think about four miles distant.
If the regulars come at us, we'll serve them worse than they did at Lexington.
It will not be long before we shall see some British regulars up here to ask us what we mean by it.
The sober look on the latter's face showed that they were not much elated, and the reason was because they did not like to believe that British regulars had been whipped by minute-men.
When the regulars get to running around with ropes in their hands and calling for the men who were engaged in that massacre, everybody will be willing to tell on his neighbor.
They had no uniforms--save on the handful of regulars sprinkled among them.
Pressing forward before a dust cloud the regulars penetrated within a hundred yards of the enemy’s lines before they were discovered.
With a savage yell a brigade ofregulars led the charge, followed by ten thousand picked men.
The cathedral bells were clanging joyously when we marched into the square, I in front, Navarro on his litter beside me, Zorilla's charger behind us, then the two hundredregulars walking in front of the leading gun.
Our own chaps behind the low wall were certainly potting at the regulars in the Casino, but they didn't even aim properly, they were too frightened, simply popping up over the wall and firing haphazard.
But surely if you disarmed them the regulars might attack them?
The little machetos hadn't quite got the hang of affairs, and looked half-dazed to see the regulars on top of the wagons and the rifles pointing at them.
We poured over the verandah into the billiard-room, but not a sign of any one was there, and all the regulars were upstairs.
You may bet your life I was jolly glad to see them make a start, for I knew that they were worth all the world to Gerald, and there was always the chance of some of Zorilla's regulars turning up and recapturing them.
Zorilla threatened to bring in the insurgent troops and his own regulars and make him a prisoner if he didn't immediately cancel the warrant and re-appoint your brother Commander-in-Chief.
I stepped across them, and came upon a lot of regulars sitting at each side of the road, quite a couple of hundred of them, with their hands tied behind their backs.
Not a macheto moved, and you bet I kept my eyes skinned lest they should wake, handing out ammunition as fast as the regulars came up for it.
He looked at the regulars on top of the wagons, timidly pointing their rifles across the road, and at the crowds of machetos in the woods, and didn't know what to think of it.
I and some others dashed for the main staircase, but, at the top, the regulars were gathered, and were firing down.
He was in a funk himself; the trees on both sides of us were simply swarming with the fierce little men, and I didn't know what to do, my brain seemed all woolly, but I dare not let the regulars throw their rifles down.
The British formed for action as the Americans drew near, and some of the regulars fired, killing Captain Davis, Abner Hosmer, and wounding another man.
Revere, 'you'll have noise enough before long; the regulars are coming!
Eighty per cent of the men were reserves, but regulars could have left no better record of courage and precision.
As the year 1856 progressed, it seemed more plain that the discord which developed between the regulars under command of General John E.
The fatal results of divided counsels between regulars and volunteers were apparent.
The General went and placed his cannon on a bridge we had to cross, and ordered out his regulars and drafted men to prevent our crossing.
If you will permit me to raise a few hundred militia, which can easily be done, I will unite them with such a force of regulars as can easily be collected, and will make a descent on Pensacola, and will reduce it.
Lieutenant-Colonel Casey advanced a detachment of regulars to the Muckleshoot prairie, eight miles below Connell's prairie, where they built a blockhouse named Fort Slaughter.
The first and third brigades of Morell's division in columns, under Butterfield, are in front, Sykes's regulars are in support.
As it was no longer necessary to maintain Shaw's force in the valley, since the regulars were to occupy it, the governor now revoked his call for two hundred more volunteers.
The regulars were on the defensive by Wool's orders, while the volunteers in the valley were unable to take the aggressive for lack of supplies.
During the following year, 1857, the settlers were excluded, the regulars lay inactive in their posts, and the quasi-peace continued.
Had, sir, the regulars moved up to the Walla Walla valley, as I most earnestly urged both Major Rains and Colonel Wright both by letter and in person, these Indians would have been protected.
It was afterwards ascertained to have been held by about 3500 regulars and a large number of tribal irregulars.
The cavalry suffered little, but the Sikh infantry covering the retirement of the reconnaissance were hard pressed by great masses of Afghan regulars and irregulars.
A company of regulars (there were three battalions of regulars in Rousseau's command) was sent into the woods as skirmishers.
It was near a little lake, and was a favorite place in summer, though the season was too early for the regulars to be there.
But line movements required the most accurate drill, and what was attainable after years of practice with regulars moving at the slow march was wholly impossible for new levies moving at 120 paces to the minute.
But ere long the country people flew to arms, and Lecourbe found himself between two fires, the levies occupying Zernetz and Loudon's regulars Martinsbruck.
When war came, it was soon found that the regulars had fallen too low in numbers and that the national guard demanded too high pay, to admit of developing the expected field strength.
Fearful of not being understood, owing to the rarity of the occasions when the squat plain squad of honest Saxon regulars at his command were called upon to explain an idea, he re-cast the sentence.
In 1894 a conscription law was passed providing for compulsory military service for all males between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, with two years’ actual service in the regulars for those between twenty-one and twenty-five.
The regulars and Tories huddled together in a confused mass, while the exultant Americans rushed forward.
The Indians, at the beginning of the action, slipped away between the American detachments, but the British and German regulars stubbornly stood their ground.
At Stony Point he showed that he could lead them to a triumphant assault with the bayonet against regulars who held a fortified place of strength.
At Monmouth he had shown, as he afterward showed against Cornwallis, that his troops could meet the renowned British regulars on even terms in the open.
Two thousand steps farther on it had become a battalion, which marched rapidly in the direction of the barracks of the Fifth Regiment of regulars in the old Presidio.
At the best, Stone was one of those conceited regulars who admired slavery, and who would have wished to save the Union in their own peculiar way.
Twenty regiments of regulars will be a drop in water; will not help anything, but will be sufficient to poison the public spirit.
The non-commissioned regulars ought to be made commissioned officers, and with officers of all grades be distributed and merged in the one great army.
Regulars and their spirit, with few exceptions, is worse here than were the Yanitschars.
Besides, this war is to be decided by the great masses of the volunteers, and it is uncivic and unpatriotic to in any way nourish the wickedly-assumed discrimination between regulars and volunteers.
The 'friendlies' were incited to follow, and Kitchener, although he had been instructed not to employ British officers or Egyptian regulars in offensive operations, went out in support.
The occupation was provisionally recognised by Egypt without prejudice to her sovereign rights, and 900 Italian regulars and irregulars established themselves in a well-built fort.
The Taaisha Baggara controlled the black Jehadia, once the irregular troops of the Egyptians, now become the regulars of the Khalifa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "regulars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
