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Example sentences for "take post"

  • He ordered the brigade that had been encamped at Gallatin, under General Ward, to Lavergne, and despatched Gordon Granger to take post at Triune, moving his command from Franklin up to that place.

  • During February Crook was sent with his command to take post at Carthage, on the Cumberland River, and watch the movements of the enemy from there to Rome, and Gilbert was ordered to proceed with his brigade to Franklin.

  • Thomas to move Reynolds and Brannan from University by way of Battle Creek, where they were to take post, concealed near its mouth.

  • A battery was ordered to take post at the foot of the hill, and Funsten's cavalry was called up from westward of the ridge.

  • Stanton had given him a direct order to take post at Strasburg or its vicinity, and to send two regiments to hold the bridges at Front Royal.

  • This division was ordered to take post at Cuyoacan or Cojohuacan.

  • The adjutant general wrote back, congratulating him on having successfully brought off his command, and ordering the corps to take post at Linares.

  • A week after taking up his position north of Oropesa, Terence received orders to move with his two battalions, and to take post to guard these passes; with his left resting on Bejar, and his right in communication with Wilson's force.

  • The bulk of the garrison, under Major-General French, was directed to take post as a reserve at Frederick, when our forces moved forward.

  • The result was that Davis came over the hill almost directly on the right flank of this line, which being unable to defend itself was forced back and directed by Wadsworth to take post in a piece of woods in rear on Seminary Ridge.

  • Wilcox's brigade, when driven in, was directed to take post in the church and an adjacent school-house, which were used as citadels.

  • His first step was to take post at Quingentolo, by which motion he secured Mirandola, that was threatened with a siege.

  • Sumter, at the same time, with a brigade of State troops and some companies of militia, was ordered to take post at Orangeburg, to cover the country from the inroads of the loyalists from Charleston.

  • With a howitzer, some matrosses and fifty infantry, Laurens moved down the river, and on the evening of the 26th reached the place of Mrs. Stock, sufficiently near to Chehaw Point to take post there by daylight the next morning.

  • On the same evening he moved with his main force to take post at a deep stream about seven miles from Camden, intending to attack Lord Rawdon or his redoubts should he march out in force to repel Sumter.

  • I was ordered to take post at St. Louis, and to relieve Captain A.

  • Gage had been instructed, in case of the reduction of Niagara, to take post immediately at a place called La Galette, a position commanding the entrance of the River St. Lawrence from Lake Ontario.

  • Leaving Nasca, Giron marched by way of Lucanas, by the mountain road, intending to take post on the lake of Parinacocha before Alvarado might be able to reach that place.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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