First scouts are out in front advancing in line, about a hundred yards apart, then the supports, next a skirmishing line of infantry, then two or three companies of them.
The battalion was distributed: three companies on Helpmakaar Hill, two companies on Cemetery Hill, with three companies in reserve near the road and river-bed immediately beneath Cemetery Hill.
On the 11th three companies of the Regiment were sent out under Captain Lafone to blow up a farm building under Bulwana, about one and half miles distant from Devon Post.
Three companies, who were recruited from the district and knew the ground, were ordered to the front.
Three companies 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers, which had been railed to the Navigation Collieries, north-east of Hatting Spruit, at 3 a.
In this place, which until then had been only weakly held, Lieberman’s force (three companies) had arrived the day before.
Captain Otto, with two additional companies, now marched to Luambala and took over the command also of Goering’s detachment (three companies).
The force was for the most part divided into detachments of three companies, each with one supply train and one field hospital.
It was intended at the termination of the African tour of the regiment, in January, 1883, to reduce the garrisons in West Africa from six to three companies, and the steamship Bolivar was chartered to carry out the relief in two trips.
On the 14th of December, the Gambia contingent sailed for the Gambia in the Colonial steamer Dover, and the garrison of Sierra Leone remained at its ordinary strength of three companies.
Brackett’s battalion of three companies of Minnesota cavalry was attached to another brigade.
With all possible dispatch he sent a relieving party consisting ofthree companies of the Sixth Infantry, fifty mounted “Rangers,” and a section of artillery, and gave the command to Colonel Samuel McPhail of Houston County.
Three companies of infantry were sent to Fort Ripley, martial law was declared at that post, and the settlers were notified to come in for protection.
Three companies on each side entered the bush, and soon succeeded in pressing the enemy into a path; where they were fiercely charged by the West African Field Force, under Major Melliss.
Three companies of Ghoorkhas managed to reach cover beneath the cliff, but the path was strewn with the dead and dying.
Three companies of the 15th and two of the 36th therefore rushed up the hill, and were into the buildings before the Pathans were aware that they were moving against them.
On the night of the 20th of November, three companies of the Rifle Brigade (1st battalion), under Lieutenant Tryon, displayed coolness and courage in a very smart affair.
Harold saw William come, and beheld the field covered with arms, and how the Normans divided into three companies, in order to attack at three places.
At the same time the 16th Rifles (Pioneers) was reduced, with other Pioneer battalions in France, to three companies.
The Somersets, however, upon the Canal de St. Quentin, lost the better part of three companies, which fought on when surrounded till all their ammunition was gone ere surrendering.
He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
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