To ensure the safety of the merchants, soldiers were at last hired to keep guard continually over those places.
Bands of soldiers were sent at intervals to construct houses for the Abipones, who, till that time, for more than a year, had dwelt under the mats, which they used for tents both at home and in travelling.
When the eating was over, the squaws beat the drums, chanted songs, and all made merry until long after we soldiers were in bed.
We soldiers were made to understand, despite the noise, that we were to take the life preservers from our staterooms and assemble on the hurricane deck.
Some distance to the west was the chapel and next to it the graveyard, in which some officers and a number of soldiers were buried, most of whom had died of cholera and yellow fever which had often visited the island.
All my soldiers were killed, except the major, Achmet Rafik, and a corporal!
In self-defence, Niambore and my few men returned the attack, and my soldiers were killed.
A party of sawyers with a small escort of soldiers were settled in a camp about three miles from my station, as the distance was too great for a daily return from their work.
Soldiers were sent to the neighborhood, and there was more sharp fighting.
Some say that even the rough soldiers were touched by the child's death, and many became Christians.
Most of Martin's fellow-soldiers were pagans, but he was a Christian, and served the emperor well, because he served Christ first.
The elections being in the winter, Caesar's soldiers were to be allowed to go to Rome on furlough.
At this moment Wambe's soldiers were about a thousand yards from us, so it was evident that we had no time to lose.
Quite a thousand of Wambe's soldiers were put hors de combat, but at least two thousand remained hidden in the bush and rocks, and these men, together with those in the outlying kraals, were a source of possible danger.
Meanwhile they had been observed from the town, and parties ofsoldiers were charging up the steep side of the hill, to occupy the schanses, and the second line of fortifications behind them.
On the other hand, Massena's soldiers were skilled in the dreadful art of war, and flushed with recent success; so that the odds against Wellington were alarmingly great.
Several regiments of soldiers were placed in and around the palace to drive back the mob, but it was well known that the troops would more willingly fraternize with the multitude than oppose them.
Soldiers were stationed at all the avenues to the palace, ostensibly to preserve the royal family from danger, but, in reality, to guard them from escape.
Soldiers were placed at the side of the printers, who were then ordered to set up a series of proclamations.
The camps of the Yankees were still there, dotting the landscape, teams were moving to and fro, soldiers were at drill, and the smoke of camp-fires was curling through the air.
The streets becoming impassable on account of the increasing multitude, soldiers were summoned to clear the way.
Soldiers were taking up the headstones and removing the monuments from their pedestals.
Some of the red-coats angrily cursed him for his rudeness, but he went serenely on, as if soldiers were no more to him than flies.
In that report it is said that the Irish who had enlisted as soldiers were forty-five thousand, and that the number would have been a hundred thousand if all who volunteered had been admitted.
Soldiers were drawn up on the right and left to keep the passages clear.
There had been a miscalculation however, for it fell six feet short of reaching the eastern bank, and the Ko-gu-ryŭ soldiers were there to give them a warm welcome.
A census of the people was taken for the purpose of making army estimates, and during the whole reign the soldiers were practiced in sham fights both in the palace enclosure and outside the city walls.
A small house of several rooms by the side of the tower is said to have been the blacksmith's shop in which the arrowheads and swords for the king's soldiers were made.
Notwithstanding this, soldiers were despatched in every direction to call for help.
The need for friendly aid was great, for, even while the old woman spoke, a little girl came bounding into the hut saying that a party of soldiers were approaching.
Soldiers were sent to his residence to seize and kill him, before he should hear of what was going on.
As might be supposed, soldiers were at once despatched all over the country in search of the fugitive; and the Queen, relapsing into one of her dark fits of cruelty, began to persecute the Christians more severely than ever.
A young man suddenly burst into the village with the announcement that a body of the Queen's soldiers were close at hand.
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