In the mean time Young's scouts had brought word that the garrison of Lynchburg was being increased and the fortifications strengthened, so that its capture would be improbable.
The night before the negro started one of the scouts placed the odd-looking communication in his hands, with renewed injunctions as to secrecy and promptitude.
I hesitated at first, but finally deciding to try it, despatched the two scouts to the old negro's cabin, and they brought him to my headquarters late that night.
Beneficial results came from the plan in many other ways too, and particularly so when in a few days two of my scouts put me in the way of getting news conveyed from Winchester.
I therefore began to organize my scouts on a system which I hoped would give better results than bad the method hitherto pursued in the department, which was to employ on this service doubtful citizens and Confederate deserters.
The scouts came in with the report that the Hittites had retreated northwards in terror, and King Ramses imagined that Kadesh was going to fall into his hands without a battle.
Just at that moment some of the Egyptian scouts came in, bringing with them two Arabs whom they had caught, and suspected to belong to the enemy.
Scouts went on ahead to scour the country, and bring to the King reports of the enemy's whereabouts.
But as the army began to wind down the long valley of the Orontes towards the town of Kadesh, the scouts were kept out in every direction, and the whole host was anxiously on the lookout for the Hittite troops.
They were driven down, and our own scoutsposted there, who gave advice from above of what was being done in the fort.
The scouts in the trees gave information of what was being done, whereupon Captains Don Rodrigo de Mendoca, Alarcon, Cervantes, and Vergara reenforced him with their light-armed pikemen and halberdiers.
Some high trees intervened between the troops and the wall, in which the enemy had posted some scouts to reconnoiter the field.
The scouts returned with information that the enemy had abandoned the kloof.
He had helped us more than a little by drilling the Syrians, and often his presence with us had saved our skins by convincing Turkish scouts of our bona fides.
How should he find his way alone to meet the Russians," he said, "whose scouts would probably shoot him on sight in any case?
His scouts were on the alert, and immediate notice was communicated to Uracca of the movements of the Spaniards.
Scouts were sent out in all directions to assemble the warriors, and De Soto was surprised to find an army of four thousand soldiers, and as many burden-bearers, ready to accompany him.
The wary Indian chieftain, who developed during the campaign military abilities of a high order, had his scouts out in all directions.
The chief sent forward scouts immediately, to inform his friends of his approach.
He hadn't seen much of the other scouts since the house-building frenzy had started, and visits among the men had decreased.
The enemy's scouts were within three miles of our camp this afternoon, evidently looking for a path that would enable them to get to our rear.
Our scouts have been busy; but, although they have brought in a few prisoners, mostly farmers residing in the vicinity of the enemy's camp, we have obtained but little information respecting the rebels.
We were seen by some of the neighboring population, which largely increased our danger and trepidation; for we had been informed by our guide that the enemy's scouts came to this point every morning.
Ned then understood why the two scouts had taken pains to fill their canteens at the brook during the day, and why, also, they so religiously preserved the little lunch still remaining in their possession.
Colonel Chadmund understood Indian warfare so well as to know that Lone Wolf had his scouts out, and it would be a difficult matter to avoid them.
But the scouts were obstinate and remained as motionless as statues.
It was in this carriage that young Chadmund had been riding when he was captured, and the scouts set out at once upon the trail of the Apache war-party.
The two scouts carefully descended until they reached the spot where the dead Apache lay.
The lieutenant drew his men close together, and two of the most experienced scouts rode a short distance in advance of the others, glancing from side to side, and on the watch for the first signs of the approach of Indians.
The scouts had checked their beasts at the same instant at the base of Hurricane Hill, and, leaping to the ground, skurried up the steep incline by which its surface was reached.
The shrewd scouts suspected the truth on the instant.
If such were the case, there were no means of learning when or where it had been done, and the scouts were as completely cut off from pursuit of the boy as were the Apaches themselves.
At the same time he had a strong hope that the scouts would return in time to prevent any such encounter as he pictured in his own mind, and which he thoroughly dreaded.
Scouts sent out from Terry's camp early on the morning of the 26th discovered three Indians, who proved to be Crows who had accompanied Custer's regiment.
Before reaching the final precipices which overlooked the riverbed, the scouts discovered that a village lay in the valley at the foot of the bluffs.
They proved to be Indian scouts from Standing Rock Agency, bearing dispatches from Lieut.
In about an hour he returned, and said he could not see the Indian village, but the scouts and a half-breed guide said they could distinctly see it some 15 miles off.
Company E was the rear guard, and assisted Major Stanton and the scouts in bringing up the herd of horses; many of these were shot on the road, and the remainder reached camp about 9 P.
These scouts reported that they had discovered the camp of the Cheyennes at a point in the mountains about 20 miles distant, and that the other two scouts had remained to watch the camp.
Our men did not kill any squaws, but the Ree Indian scouts did.
On the evening of the 7th, the scoutscaptured four Cheyenne squaws, a youth, and three young children.
After going about three miles the scouts reported Indians ahead, and the command then took the trail.
He started to cross, when the scouts came back and called out to him to hold on, that the Sioux were coming in large numbers to meet him.
The scouts left me, and soon returned with three of the principal soldiers of Sitting Bull--the last named individual being unwilling to trust his person within our reach.
Many thought the Indians were moving away, and I think Custer believed so, for he sent word to Reno, who was ahead, to push on the scouts rapidly and head for the dust.
The command remained here till about 6 o'clock, doing their uttermost to keep from freezing, the scouts meantime going out to reconnoitre.
I have been on other scouts since then, and by various processes, but never with a zest so novel as was afforded by that night's experience.
That the enemy knew that the British intended to attack was evident, because the numbers of the aforementioned V-strut Albatros scouts had obviously increased on this front.
Bristol and other scoutsin each two-seater squadron.
By linking up the compass station with an aerodrome by telephone, it was possible to send off a patrol of scouts to chase off or destroy the artillery machine as soon as he began to send down fire signals, i.
There the first flight of Nieuport scouts was received and, after a fortnight, another move was ordered to Izel le Hameau on August 16.
He was attacked by three Hun scouts just after firing at the ‘gas-bag.
Saunders did a very good show on July 2, fighting continuously for forty-five minutes, destroying two Pfalz scouts and engaging five other hostile machines.
To prevent the risk of a surprise, scouts were sent out to examine the country, to ascertain that no enemy was near at hand.
Two of thescouts had come in, and assured us that they could discover no trace of the red men.
As soon as the fort was placed in an efficient state, Captain Norton sent out the scouts to ascertain if any Indians were in the neighbourhood.
The scouts told us that they had received the information they had brought from a canoe which had been sent up to ascertain if any Indians were in the neighbourhood, and that it had afterwards returned down the river.
Captain Norton, well aware of the dangers to which we should be exposed, charged the scouts to keep a vigilant look-out, so as to avoid being led into an ambush, or surprised in any other way.
While we were still examining the horses, hoping that after a little while the lameness would go off, one of the scouts called out that a stranger was approaching.
Three days having passed, and the scouts not making their appearance, we began to fear that they had been cut off, and that we should be doomed to be shut up in the fort for an indefinite period.
Tim, therefore, found himself raised to the rank of third in command, the scouts being placed under his orders--an honourable though dangerous appointment.
We remained for the next two days, in the hope of receiving information from the commandant of Fort King; but neither of the two trusty scouts who had been despatched thither returned.
We had thus pushed on for four or five days, when one of the scouts brought word that he saw the smoke of a fire ascending apparently from the midst of a thick wood, which was, in his opinion, very likely to shelter an enemy.
Having got to a sufficient distance from the hummock to prevent it affording shelter to an enemy firing at us, a halt was called, and Lejoillie advised that scouts should be sent back to ascertain the whereabouts of the Indians.
We Boy Scouts don't care a rap about your old information!
I can tell you why Boy Scouts do a great many things," declared Jimmie vehemently.
Three of the boys were about eighteen years of age and wore the well-known uniforms of the Boy Scouts of America.
Of all the observers none was more interested than the two Boy Scouts so strangely thrown into the company of this train load of fighting men and their emperor.
Although compelled to think and act quickly in the emergency, a recollection of Ned Nestor's training and the drills to which he had subjected his fellow Boy Scouts flashed across Jimmie's vision.
So at once the chief and hisscouts went over to the hill to see if the boys had told the truth.
Among the scouts was one who was noted for his bravery, and many were the brave acts he had performed.
Scouts were sent out each day to look for a herd and to bring back report to the officers.
One day one of the scouts discovered a herd near a certain lake.
When a herd should be sighted, the scouts who had found them would at once report to the officers.
Sir Richard, in brief, urges the creation of a regiment of scouts or mounted infantry whose horses shall be of much the same type of those described by Colonel Barrow.
The South African ponies ridden by the Colonial scouts and mounted infantry have acquired their education as shooting ponies on the veldt under conditions very similar to those prevailing in warfare.
In only one solitary instance had the Indian scouts so long employed by the army ever proved unfaithful, though often employed in hostilities against their own tribes.
The Banner Boy Scouts or The Struggle for Leadership This initial volume tells how the news of the scout movement reached the boys and how they determined to act on it.
The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat or The Secret of Cedar Island Here is another tale of life in the open, of jolly times on river and lake and around the camp fire, told by one who has camped out for many years.
The Banner Boy Scouts a Tour or The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain This story begins with a mystery that is most unusual.
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