General Hunter made a reconnoissance to Wilson Creek, and ascertained that the only enemy that had been in the vicinity was a scouting party of forty or fifty men.
Many of them were reluctant to believe we were advancing to attack them, and thought the firing upon the pickets was the work of a scouting party.
On Saturday, four days after the raid, the corporal of a scouting party came to our plantation and said the body of a white man had been found in the woods a short distance away.
We had fallen into the hands of a scouting party of our own forces.
In April, 1780, the settlement at Harpersfield was destroyed, and a scouting party of Americans which happened to be in the neighborhood was captured.
On the evening of the 12th, as the army approached this region, Sullivan ordered a scouting party to be sent out.
Early in January Hamilton sent a scouting party to Kaskaskia to waylay and capture Clark, and it came near succeeding while Clark was returning from a visit to Cahokia.
He encamped that night in a thick wood upon the Royal Grant, * and sent out a scouting party, under Jacob Sammons, to search for the enemy.
From a scouting party he also learned that the enemy had taken a northerly course, along the West Canada Creek.
A scouting party, under Captain Tyler, was sent forward upon the Indian trail.
His lordship had thrown out a scouting party in the advance, and a hundred men to take possession of a gap in the mountain, through which a road passed toward the Jerseys.
Sending a scouting party to observe the direction taken by the retreating enemy, and to ascertain if they joined a larger force and turned again, General Morgan pressed on, hoping to reach Mt.
Cane Run bridge, within twenty-eight miles of Louisville, was destroyed by a scouting party.
A scouting party made a detour to the north and west, but no Indians could be found.
A scouting partyof six companies of the 7th Cavalry under Major M.
One day they ran into a scouting party of rebels, and the foraging party had a sharp skirmish with their adversaries over the possession of a haystack.
That very day a scouting partybrought in a wagon-load of clothing which had been collected in a village a few miles away to be sent to a company from that village, and then serving under General Price.
One of the bitterest reflections that has ever been made by the southern people on the death of Stonewall Jackson is, that he was killed by his own men, who mistook him and his escort for a scouting party of the enemy.
A scouting party of about fifty men had been in the neighborhood, but they did not remain an hour; they had simply satisfied themselves that the Union army was still in Springfield, and then returned to their army at Cassville.
On the 5th instant a scouting party, under Captain Lawson, started for Middle Fork bridge, a point eighteen miles from camp.
We have sent out a scouting party, and hope to learn something more of the rebels during the night.
They were surprised by Clark's swift advance just as a scouting party of warriors, who had been sent out to watch the whites, were returning to the village.
Soon after the recapture, the Detroit authorities sent a scouting party to dislodge some Illinois people who had attempted to make a settlement at Chicago.
Fifty of the American troops were detached to guard against any relief from without, while the rest attacked the fort: yet Hamilton's scouting party crept up, lay hid all night in an old barn, and at daybreak rushed into the fort.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scouting party" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
