The interminable wars and skirmishes waged thenceforth between the two races were one of the principal causes of the financial embarrassment of the government at Kyoto, and finally undermined its power.
Skirmishes took place occasionally between the light troops on either side, and a general engagement might be brought on at any moment.
The news of skirmishes along the border came, magnified and colored in the telling.
He has beat us in some skirmishes and he has organized troops as far west as the Ohio.
We afterwards marched to Mons, having several skirmishes on the way, and managed to capture a number of Germans and a field hospital.
This account is rather muddled, for the writer speaks of days of fighting and marching with skirmishes before the action at Mons.
Besides this, Sandoval had had daily skirmishes with the Indians of the townships lying on the Golfo Dulce, so that he deemed it necessary to send a further reinforcement of eight men, under my command, as a further guard to the canoe.
Several skirmishes took place on the way and General Wheaton brought his reserves forward into the general advance.
In the outskirts of the city, skirmishes between Spanish troops and rebels were of frequent occurrence.
There were subsequent skirmishes on the Pasig River banks with the armed insurgents, who were driven as far as the Antipolo Mountains.
Graham in the preceding year, and from the very first offered a fierce resistance to the advance of the expedition, so that skirmishes of more or less importance took place daily.
Several small skirmishes took place at the outposts, a body of twenty mounted infantry, under Lieutenant Pigott of the 60th Rifles, particularly distinguishing themselves.
Five bombardments took place; three sanguinary battles were fought under these walls, and numerous sorties and skirmishes occurred.
The populace attacked and destroyed several houses belonging to the most obnoxious individuals, and skirmishes followed between the inhabitants and the troops.
Schuyler with a party from Albany, and several skirmishes ensued.
Washington, in all the battles and skirmishesof Gen.
Then again skirmishes began to take place in the sallies, Eumenes undoubtedly shrinking from the risk of a decisive engagement.
He engaged in frequent skirmishes with the enemy, with good success.
Several times we came on small parties of the Siouxs, but had no more than short skirmishes with them, our numbers being too formidable for them to attack us.
Here we lived, for about five years, generally at peace, but having occasional skirmishes with the Digger Indians.
Several skirmishes took place between our bands and those of the Blackfeet, in which sometimes one and sometimes the other would be successful.
There had already been some skirmishes between the detached parties of the Swedes and Russians, under the walls of the town.
The skirmishes on both sides were frequent and bloody: the Russian cavalry being almost all dismounted, could no longer be of any service, unless by fighting on foot: in a word, the situation of affairs was desperate.
The fighting was mostly artillery duels and skirmishes by separate units.
The flower of their armies either fell victims to disease, or were cut off in skirmishes with the enemy, whilst the loss of the Candians was comparatively trifling.
The Austrians rapidly closed in upon all sides, and for nine weeks a constant series of skirmishes were maintained with them.
Little skirmishes between our pickets and the Russian vedettes used to occur from day to day, and Pain began to exercise his metier as war correspondent at once, writing the most picturesque descriptive articles to his Geneva newspaper.
Skirmishes were always going on between the outposts, and the intermittent bombardment claimed a daily quota of victims, a considerable proportion of whom were sent to me for treatment.
I was one of those left on guard at the fort, so did not take part in any of the skirmishes with the Indians.
In the meantime daily skirmishes take place continually in view of both camps; these were fought at the ford and pass of the morass.
The generals of Pompey's army did almost the same thing, and for the same reason: and the horse had frequent skirmishes with each other.
In the meantime there were frequent skirmishes across the marsh, a few on both sides sallying out between the two camps.
Whilst skirmishes were fought in this manner, they advanced but slowly and gradually, and frequently halted to help their rear, as then happened.
When neither army began to pass the marsh, Caesar, upon the skirmishesof the horse [proving] favourable to our men, led back his forces into the camp.
This it was their interest to attempt and to effect by any means possible; but, fatigued by the skirmishes all day, and by the labour of their march, they deferred it till the following day: Caesar likewise encamped on the next hill.
Every day they went out scouting and clearing around Suakim, and had frequent skirmishes with the enemy, in all of which they were said to have behaved very well indeed.
The fight described in the last chapter was only one of the numerous skirmishes that were taking place almost daily near Suakim at that time.
Rosser pushed forward on the back and middle roads in pursuit of the cavalry, which was engaged in burning houses, mills, barns, and stacks of wheat and hay, and had several skirmishes with it.
To recur to General Magruder: soon after the landing of the enemy, skirmishes commenced with our forces, and the first vigorous attempt was made to break the line at Lee's Mills, where there were some newly constructed defenses.
April 9th, several sharpskirmishes took place between the French and the British van, under Hood.
There were innumerable conflicts during the year, from petty skirmishes to pretty severe battles, none of which are worthy of record in this brief sketch.
A few skirmishes ensued between the contending parties until the 3d of November, when Joseph, with thirty thousand men, encountered fifty-five thousand Spaniards.
The Seventh took part in theskirmishes along the stream for fifteen miles.
In skirmishes at Valley Town, Ellajay, and near Franklin, General Rutherford lost three men, but he completely subdued the Indians.
Two skirmishes took place during this campaign, in which several Indians were killed and a considerable number made prisoners, among the latter, Hicks and Scott, two white traders, who had married Indians and espoused their cause.
Each column engaged the enemy's cavalry and artillery in a series of skirmishes from within a short distance of Louisville.
Under his direction the soldiers of the Army of the Ohio received their training in the drill of the camp, the discipline of the march, and learned endurance under fire in the skirmishes and engagements during his command.
He had several skirmishes with Wheeler, but finally secured the safety of the train and repulsed every attack of the rebel cavalry.
It was now one o'clock, and beyond the skirmishes between the commands but little had been accomplished.
In the history of America many battles had been fought, but the greatest of them were skirmishes compared with the gigantic conflicts of the Old World under Marlborough and Napoleon.
In the skirmishesthat took place between Atlanta and the sea the militia was soon brushed aside.
In the entire movement there had been no fighting except a few cavalry skirmishes and no serious loss on either side.
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