After some time passed in waiting and wondering at the delay, the targeteers by degrees got up close to the town.
Brasidas meanwhile came a little nearer and then halted with his main body, sending on one hundred targeteers to be ready to rush in first, the moment that a gate should be thrown open and the beacon lighted as agreed.
Wherefore, during the night, Philopoemen concealed, in a valley remote from the view of the enemy, as great a number of targeteers as the place was capable of hiding.
He sent Polyphantas with a small detachment to Boeotia, and also Menippus, one of his guards, with one thousand targeteers (the target is not unlike the ordinary buckler) to Chalcis.
And now when almost all the targeteers had been slain, the light-armed and the Carthaginians, who had come up to their assistance from the other camp, having been thrown into confusion, were put to the sword.
Immediately, the targeteers of the Achaeans assailed and plundered the camp, and the rest set out in pursuit of the enemy.
His legion filled up the space between the targeteers and the phalanxes, and thus disunited the enemy's line.
Then Hystaspas stationed strong Persian garrisons in all the citadels, and departed, taking with him not only his own troops but many mounted men and targeteers from Phrygia.
All these officers will put their brigadiers in the first line, their targeteers on the right, and their bowmen on the left of their own squares: this is the order in which they will be of most use.
The targeteers were placed to left and right of the cavalry, and the bowmen in front and rear.
Always when the pikemen and targeteers go up to charge, they go forwards dancing and skipping about, that their adversaries may have no steady aim to throw their darts or thrust their pikes.
The pikemen and targeteersalso exhibited their feats of arms, being very expert, but their shot exceedingly unskilful.
The pike-men were followed by a company of targeteerscarrying darts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "targeteers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
