Two squads of eight carefully chosen men each were detailed to proceed under command of Sheriff Barton, of Rice county, and Detective Hoy, of Minneapolis.
The pickets had been liberally placed, but the squads were necessarily small, as an area of more than four miles square was guarded.
The alarm had been flashed ahead over the wires, and squads were turning out from all points in hot pursuit.
Besides the parties sent out in squads to the woods, other parties were out in each direction up the Winona and St. Peter R.
The two coaches were fairly overworked, for by this time the first of the football squads was beginning to form.
The corporals of the remaining squadscommand right oblique.
Being in column of squads to form column of platoons, or being in line of platoons, to form the company in line: 1.
If the column of squads be formed from line, the file closers take posts on the pivot flank, abreast of and 4 inches from the nearest flank.
Don't break up the squads or platoons or the companies.
The other corporals conduct their squads by the shortest routes to their proper places and deploy them on the general line.
The other squads are deployed as they arrive on the general line; each corporal halts in his place in line and commands or signals, as skirmishers march; the squad deploys and halts abreast of him.
If there are an even number of squads in the company, for instance eight, the center squad would be the fourth.
The blank files in the squads have to be filled by men from the file closers, and the remaining guides and file closers form on the left flank or at such places as may be designated by the company commander.
At the preparatory command the corporals command, follow me, and at the command MARCH, they step in front of their squads and conduct them to their places.
Sentry squads and cossack posts furnished by pickets are counted as sentinel posts.
The sergeant then effects the division into squads and reports the company as prescribed above.
They conduct their squads on the shortest and easiest route to their places in the line and then deploy their squads as they arrive in the general line.
The original division into squads is effected by the command: Count off.
After the capture of Fort Harrison, north of the James, squads of guards were sent into the streets with directions to arrest every able-bodied man they met.
Business was suspended by a common impulse; streets were almost deserted except by squads of military patrol; shutters of stores, and even many residences, remained unopened throughout the day.
Our day is just filled full of hay-footing and straw-footing and squads righting and all that sort of thing.
Elsewhere, there weresquads “pulling fodder” from the dry corn stalks; hot and distasteful work enough.
On all sides squads of men and a few venturesome women were hurrying towards the fire; the dread of supernatural encounters overcome for the moment by such strong reality and by the confidence lent them in each other’s company.
The easily pulverized, light, clayey soil around Sandy Hook was raised in huge clouds by the countless wagons and the hoofs of the horses of the squads of cavalry officers, couriers, and wagonmasters.
Small squads of Indians were seen prowling about during Monday and Tuesday, but they were promptly scattered by a shell from the howitzer, accurately planted by the veteran artillery sergeant who was in charge of the guns.
Those open streets of Buenos Aires, held only bysquads of militia and half-armed citizens, had been to the trained soldiery of England the pathways of death.
Various squads of men, preceded and followed by bayonets, were marching with rhythmic tread from one port to another.
The sidewalks were now swept by women, and squads of Senegalese sharpshooters were unloading the cargoes,--shivering with cold in the sunny winter days, and bent double as though dying under the rain or the breeze of the Mistral.
But for all of that, the number of the Han squads were too much for us.
At times, squads of men on the borders of the woods were seen, who were doubtless rebel pickets or persons who were curious, like some of the Yankee soldiers.
Several times the excitement of the advancing troops was increased by the sight of little squads of rebel prisoners that had been taken by the cavalry skirmishing in advance.
After holding another council they decided it would be better to push on to California gulch (the present site of Leadville) in small squads so as not to excite suspicion.
Murphy to divide them into small squads and at once scour the town, arresting any group of three or more men they might find, no matter, militiamen or civilians.
Leftenant, the rest of the squadron is formed near the hill, and they are draggin' in squads of prisoners," said Life Knox.
Later England and France concentrated on the development of aeroplane squads or corps, and when the United States entered the war one of the first detachments sent into France consisted of 100 aviators.
The Germans were pursuing their tactics of working forward in massed formation, and the British rapid-firers' squads and riflemen reaped a horrid harvest from their positions on the high ground.
By some chance the running of one of the three makeshift teams fell to Dick, and, with a few of the candidates who had failed to get placed on the squads following, he started off.
The weather had turned cold since Saturday and there was a gusty north-east wind quartering the field, and the more seasoned squads were charging up and down the gridiron with much vim.
On the following Monday Dick found himself again in charge of one of the squads in practice.
There were five signal squads at work that afternoon, and several of them were followed by blanketed youths for whom no positions remained.
Three squads took the gridiron for signal drill and the punters got busy.
Some ten minutes later Coach Driscoll found Dick on the bench while the first and second squads were taking the field for the scrimmage.
When the squads were called in and the scrimmage began Davis insinuated himself between Dick and a neighbour on the bench.
The drum ceased, and squads of Pixies began to return from the lake front in a quieter mood.
Squads and companies of busy workers were rapidly pushing on the encampment to the border of the South Walk, and to the Promenade under the west window.
Nor was there scarcely a day in which squads of these same men might not be seen leaving the prison, on their way to be exchanged, or otherwise sent back to the Union army, or direct to their homes.
This left him literally "between two fires," for the mounted cannon on either side could throw a ball into his house at any moment, and squads of cavalry from both sides occasionally visited his house.
The company was soon divided intosquads of two and three; Edgar took with him White and George Fielding; and—repeating the injunction not to linger—rode away to the north-west.
This dispersed the squads around the spring, and broke up the concert under the alders.
We were then distributed in squads to superintend the removal of the wounded.
We scattered in every direction, Buche and I always keeping together, and it was ten minutes before we could be rallied again near the road in squads from all the regiments.
All had left, many other squads had received no orders, and in the vicinity of St. Amand the streets were full of soldiers.
It seemed to him that Coach Driscoll must have deliberately apportioned to him the stupidest boys on the field, for of all the awkward squads Myron had ever had anything to do with his was the awkwardest.
Four other awkward squads adorned the field, the nearer one being under the care of Charles Cummins.
There was no practice for the first the next afternoon, but the other squads were put through a full day's work.
He was in no hurry to join the panting and perspiring squads that trotted around over the turf, and so he perched himself on one of the lower seats of the stand and looked the situation over.
The squadswere reduced to four now, and Myron had slipped into a half-back position on the third.
I now began to think my escape certain, but on coming down into the valley of Little Coon, I found every road picketed, and the citizens aroused; and I heard of several squads of cavalry scouring the country in search of me.
It was a lucky circumstance that none of the many squads of guerrillas infesting that region, discovered me, in that unguarded condition, or perhaps I would never have reached my destination.
These squads again deploy, to right and left, as the movements of the herd, or the nature of the ground require.
They had made the trip in the disguise of rebel officers, and met with no opposition, though they often met pickets, and squads of men on the way.
Subject peasants and house-servants joined the amusement in throngs; others gave information about single Swedes or small squads disposed incautiously through the villages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
