The next day, coming down with his cavalry into a place called the great plains, which lay at the foot of that eminence, he spent the day in advancing up to the outposts of the enemy, and provoking them by skirmishing attacks.
The Romans used the stationary kind of fight, pressing upon the enemy with their own weight and that of their arms; but on the other side there was more of skirmishing and rapid movement than force.
Then skirmishing parties were sent out from both sides, and the vanquished, fired with indignation, returned to the encounter with increased numbers.
Monday was spent in strengthening the position and in preparation for the fight, though there was much skirmishing going on all day.
Some envious, hypercritical Union men made the astonishing discovery that Sherman, the old soldier, who had been skirmishing for three days with the enemy, was surprised; but happily the rebels themselves have not found it out to this day.
There was considerable skirmishing during this day, but no heavy battle.
There was some heavy skirmishing near the capital, but the rebels soon retired.
Osterhaus's division was in the advance, constantlyskirmishing with the enemy; he was supported by General Morgan L.
We were now in White Oak Swamp, between the James River and the Chickahominy, and the skirmishing was lively.
After a day of hard marching and constant skirmishing the troops returned, wearied enough, to their starting point; but General Grant is not satisfied, even yet, that he cannot reach the Southside Railroad.
Of course there is skirmishingwith the enemy constantly, but he is not here in sufficient force to offer substantial resistance.
We did some light skirmishing during the afternoon, and the enemy charged some dismounted cavalry, who were located upon our right, and drove them back some distance.
The main battle lasted till about three o'clock; but the skirmishing and cannonading continued till night, when both forces went to entrenching, the possession of the railroad still being left to our troops.
Skirmishing continues all day and the pickets are active, yet there is no set engagement, the head officers having decided on still another movement towards the inevitable left.
The skirmishing up to this time had been very light, the enemy having obviously withdrawn to his left, and the whole move being made with hardly a show of opposition.
A brigade of the Fifth Corps formed the first line of battle and our brigade came next; skirmishing between the rival lines prevailed all day.
There is skirmishing all day and an artillery duel in the afternoon.
The sound of the skirmishing comes from front and battle line is formed; Companies C and E being detailed as skirmishers, they went forward some 300 yards, the regiment remaining behind the crest of the hill.
Accordingly, when the army returned from a successful skirmishing expedition, many leading Ghibellines, including the Uberti and the Lamberti, were driven into banishment.
Meanwhile, profiting by the absence of the Florentine troops, the exiles and Count Guido Novello had taken refuge at Figline and made it the centre of continual skirmishing expeditions.
From these points they made frequent skirmishing expeditions, clearly showing that they had by no means lost hope of soon re-entering the city.
The Florentines had placed a mixed host of infantry, crossbowmen, and bucklermen in the van, and their wings were formed of 150 skirmishing light horse, who were all picked men.
The British marines had not been taught any thing approximating to skirmishing or sharp-shooting; the Americans had.
Skirmishing in the Rain-Hessian Encampment-Stark's Promise and Fulfillment, 396.
The skirmishing and more general action continued seven hours without intermission, and the most indomitable courage was evinced by both parties.
Skirmishing began at once between our mounted men in front and dismounted confederates behind breastworks of considerable strength.
Skirmishing began immediately across the field, each line behind a fence.
The slight skirmishing with his pickets, of which he speaks, must have been with small bodies that came out from Richmond or which followed him from his position of the day on the Brook pike.
June 2 went into camp at Bottom's bridge, where we remained skirmishing with cavalry across the river.
The others elect to amuse themselves about the camp, cutting small timber with their little hatchets, picking fresh browse, or skirmishing the mountain side for wintergreen berries and sassafras.
He places the pans in the sun where the grease will soften and goes skirmishing for ants and doodle bugs.
When, by skirmishing with the wooden fork, you can fish up bones with no meat on them, the soup is cooked and the kettle may be set aside to cool.
While Horry was skirmishingwith Campbell, Major John Postelle, who was stationed to guard the lower part of the Pedee, succeeded in capturing Captain Depeyster, with twenty-nine grenadiers.
The gallant captain daily challenged the British posts, skirmishing in the sight of his mistress.
And they never exchanged more than a casual word or two, except one day when, skirmishing in front of the battalion against a worrying attack of cavalry, they found themselves cut off by a small party of Cossacks.
Though often marching in the ranks or skirmishing in the woods side by side, the two officers ignored each other; this not so much from inimical intention as from a very real indifference.
It was pleasant to watch their advance party skirmishingup the slopes, which became steeper near the top.
The enemy had lately grown wonderfully bold and venturesome--skirmishing with picket outposts, bullying reconnoitring parties, and picking quarrels upon unconscionably slight provocation almost daily.
He was a sharpshooter, he told us, belonging to some Missouri regiment, and had been out skirmishing almost ever since daylight, with not a mouthful to eat since the evening before.
Meanwhile two hundred and fifty fighting men of Boston had joined the intrepid Church at Swansea, where there was skirmishing with lurking Indians in the brush, but no battle with any great numbers of King Philip's men.
Skirmishing had already taken place between bands of Indians and whites, but no great battle was to occur for some time.
From this time on constant maneuvering and skirmishing occurred between the two armies, in which Ramseur was more or less prominently engaged.
After reconnoitering and skirmishing a couple of days, we turned our backs on the capital, beat a hasty retreat to the Potomac, followed by the enemy's cavalry.
As skirmishing at this time was frequent, we could not positively decide as to what it portended.
Skirmishing was kept up and the rebels fell back slowly, firing as they went.
We did not discover a rebel on this march, but could hear of them every day, and there would be slightskirmishing with our advance cavalry.
Skirmishing was going on in front and Banks' men were driving the rebels, and several prisoners were taken.
Skirmishing commenced with the enemy's pickets here, and two of our cavalry were killed at a white house a mile from our camp.
They soon fell in with the rebel pickets, and skirmishing commenced quite early in the day.
The marines started in advance and skirmishing commenced quite early, the enemy driving stubbornly.
Company H was skirmishing in advance a short distance, when three of them were wounded, the whole regiment was ordered to fire.
Picket skirmishing was going on most of the time, causing constant alarm in camp.
Nothing occurred but slight skirmishingwith our advance until after passing Fort D'Russey, at a place called Marksville Prairie, a small town three miles from the fort.
Skirmishing commenced early, and was kept up until in the afternoon, when the rebels were discovered to be pretty strong in force in our front, having a good position.
But this body of horse soon got out from under the fire of the Bavarian guns and moved off to the westward, it was said because it mistook Lipkowski's volunteers, skirmishing further to the north, for German reinforcements advancing.
By three o'clock a large part of the town was on fire, and detachments of infantry were skirmishing with the French posts at the foot of the glacis.
A brigade of the same Corps at Limeil, on the right bank of the Seine, was engaged in skirmishingwith the French at Creteil.
The Guard Corps reached Beaumont, and General von der Tann with the 1st Bavarian Corps was at Raucourt, having marched by way of La Besace with some slight skirmishing on the way.
There was no responsive platoon reply to the volley, but the skirmishing shots were answered directly by crack!
I should just like to give the call, though, to set our dear old lads going along the mountain-side there skirmishing and peppering the frog-eating warmints till they ran for their lives.
Again another ragged volley; and this was followed by a few dull, heavy-sounding single shots, which came evidently from a skirmishing party which was working its way along the steep slope across the river.
We have only got muskets, but we are riflemen all the same, and our dooty is to go right in front skirmishing to clear the way.
Early in the day, skirmishing began along the edge of the wood on the left, by the light troops and Indians.
The skirmishing party of British and Indians had been gradually strengthened till, by the time General Pike's forces were on shore, they had an almost equal force to dispute their passage toward the town.
Colonel Baez stationed a line of marksmen of the cavalry against those troops, and employed himself several hours in skirmishing with them.
With great trouble two skirmishing lines were formed, and sent to threaten their left and right, and then a hundred men were collected behind the first house, and these made a rush, at the cry of 'Viva Garibaldi!
They did not think them sufficient; for, after some skirmishing on that day, they withdrew again to their position on two lower plateaus, the Piana Borazzo and Santa Theresa.
They accordingly got all up, while Captain Castro and his musqueteers were skirmishing with the troops of Don Diego; who likewise continued his march, and drew up in order of battle.
From this part of the field the latter can be seen in skirmishing order, drawing nearer and nearer; those khaki-clad dots on the great brown expanse affording but an insignificant mark.
And as the advancing host draws nearer, now in quick intrepid rushes over open ground where the leaden hail sweeps in its remorseless shower, now prone and in skirmishing formation, the roar of battle waxes louder and louder.
They are skirmishing yonder," said he, pointing to a wood on our right.
From the time of the charge of the hussars until night, the battalion remained in the same position, skirmishing with the Prussians.
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