Secret Service at the Front; or Scouting and Guerrillas.
But the bold deeds of the rebels in scouting through the Union lines paled before the achievements of General Sharpe and his bureau of military information.
Since this exploit, the negro has made himself useful in scouting and bringing in information.
I think now that the four riders Gaylor and I saw that day were just a scouting party of Ricker's.
Bud sent some of the men scouting around for an extra lamp.
It was Clark who led these scouting parties now, for Lewis was well-nigh broken down in health.
A moment more the locharch of the scouting division and three comrades appeared.
Of course, when aeroplanes go on scouting expeditions like this they are apt to be attacked by the enemy both by anti-aircraft guns and also by other aeroplanes.
Besides those who go up for definite scouting operations or to "spot," as it is termed, for the artillery, there are other machines whose sole duty is fighting.
These go up for the purpose of driving off those machines of the enemy which may come prying, or to keep the ground, so to speak, for the scouting machines and enable them to do their work unmolested.
On the 29th of July instructions were issued to the Naval Air Service that the duties of scouting and patrol were to be secondary to the protection of the country against hostile aircraft.
The Mayfly mishap had left us unsupplied with airships of the necessary power and range for naval reconnaissance, nor were the means at hand to enable seaplanes to doscouting work for the fleet.
Once the expeditionary force was safely across the Channel, these routine patrols were discontinued, though both airships and seaplanes continued to make special scouting flights over the North Sea and Channel.
At dawn and at sunset patrols were carried out every possible day, scouting the line of the coast.
The Military Wing, small as it was, knew that it would be entrusted with the immense task of scouting for the expeditionary force, and that its business would be rather to avoid than to seek battle in the air.
The unarmoured cruisers are intended chiefly for scouting purposes, or for capturing or protecting commerce.
While he was away, word arrived that a party of Roberts' Horse who were out scouting had been held up.
The Imperial Yeomanry, who had been scouting far ahead, now found themselves perilously involved with a small body of the enemy.
Do you mean that when you go out on scoutingexpeditions you can communicate with the station here?
I have never yet seen them do any damage, but they serve a useful purpose in keeping the scouting machines high in the air, thus rendering difficult the work of the enemy's observer.
A number of French aeroplanes arescouting overhead.
In this view their acts become more important than those of a mere scouting party, and demand, and have received, an acknowledged place in New-England history.
John Lovewell, Josiah Farwell, and Jonathan Robbins at once petitioned for, and were granted, the right to raise a scouting party to carry the war into the enemy's country.
He quickly descended the stairs as the sound of trampling feet on the road, and the hurried word of command, announced the return of the scouting party.
Guitar led his mad, weary and swearing force back to the old camp grounds, and there awaited the return of Lawrence and his scouting party.
They were returning from their pursuit of the scouting party and were strung out a long distance along the road.
The worst part of it is, it is only a small scoutingparty that has done the mischief--not over fifty men--and they have captured four hundred prisoners without firing a gun.
Harry, who had been scouting in front, returned with the news that the guerrillas had fled.
About five miles from Monticello Harry overtook the scouting party, now on their way back to that city.
He then learned that he had attacked and was chasing a small scouting party towards Versailles.
At the very outbreak of war scouting trips were made out into the North Sea beyond the mouth of the Thames by the Astra and Parseval, and both these ships patrolled the Channel during the passage of the Expeditionary Force.
It was realized that those large airships in the future would be invaluable to a fleet for scouting purposes.
The Germans, on the other hand, made the fullest use of their Zeppelins for scouting purposes with the high seas fleet.
The chief danger to be apprehended is attack from small scouting seaplanes, possessing great speed and the power to climb to a great height, or from aeroplanes launched from the decks of ships.
A short scouting trip by the Germans could prove them liars in no time at all.
All available ships were in the air, either scouting for fragments of the Italian fleet or lending their aid in the battle ashore.
Later, if we are picked up, we're just a couple of infantrymen who got lost from a desert scouting patrol.
That wasn't the reason Freddy and he had been sent out on this scouting patrol.
In short, and to sum it all up very bluntly, you have about two chances of making the scouting patrol a success as against ninety-eight chances of failing.
Crimson was the code word meaning that the Victory was calling the advancescouting patrol.
I'm all for this scouting show, and want to get on with it.
The Victory will have an advance scouting plane aloft all the time, and if its pilot sees you in trouble the Victory will be notified at once so that she can make tracks away from the rendezvous area.
So sped two weeks around Nicaea, and on a Friday Richard sallied forth in company with Bohemond and Tancred, who led the scouting party.
They were to play the mountain scouting game, and as the nearest mountains were at a distance from camp the squad had been detailed for the automobile.
In the afternoon scouting parties were sent out in all directions to find out the nature of the surrounding country.
This provoked a laugh and broke the tension, and a moment afterward a scouting party from the camp hailed them boisterously: "Where are those fish?
One day he led a party of us on a scouting expedition into the enemy's lines.
One day six Crees were travelling along on foot, scouting far ahead.
The profession of scouting made a special appeal to the romantic side of him; the prospect of some real, practical scouting was exciting.
According to the books much scouting was done under heavy fire, but according to the books, and in the absence of any experience to the contrary, it was probable that the careful scout would not be killed.
After that scouting episode at Souchez I told myself that his 'nerve' was gone, that for a little anyhow he would be no good in action.
It was our business to break up all scouting on the part of the enemy, and that was difficult that day.
A man who has passed years in bush-fighting, scouting and despatch-riding thinks quickly and acts decisively.
My long experience in scouting and despatch-riding had trained me to think quickly and to act decisively.
A yarn about one of these occasions may amuse you, although there is but little information as regards scouting in it.
When she came to herself she struggled back to what had been her home, and had taken refuge in an outhouse, where she had been found by her little son, who had kept her alive by scouting for hens' eggs or anything else he could find.
And now I come to think it over, I was really not scouting at all, but only trying to open communications with another column, though to do that is certainly the work of a scout, and I moreover was a scout, but yet I was not scouting.
We shall do somescouting for several days off the Scandinavian coast, trying to pick up some of the Germans who, under neutral colors, have been laying mines in the North Sea.
So camp was made at Beaver Head, a few miles from the river, while a scouting party went farther to spy out the land.
The colonies had been entirely abandoned for some time when a Mormon party from Douglas returned on a scouting trip.
