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Example sentences for "three divisions"

  • The force was drawn up in three divisions: the 1st West India Regiment, under Captain A.

  • Here the upright shafts at the sides are not twisted but run up in three divisions to Gothic pinnacles.

  • This reredos is three divisions in height and five in width--each division, except the two lower in the centre where there is a niche for the image of the Virgin, containing a large picture.

  • Smith's three divisions, which had been ordered from Missouri to join the forces of General Thomas.

  • Massena, with an army reinforced by every battalion and squadron he could collect from Gallicia and Castile, had been completely beaten by a wing of the British army, consisting of three divisions only.

  • Fourth Corps to consist of three divisions, and to be commanded by Brigadier-General E.

  • Third Corps to consist of three divisions, and to be commanded by Brigadier-General S.

  • Second Corps to consist of three divisions, and to be commanded by Brigadier-General E.

  • McCook was to move his command of three divisions direct on the Nolinsville pike to Triune.

  • Rosecrans organized a reserve corps, consisting of three divisions designated as First, Second, and Third, under Baird, J.

  • The cavalry, hitherto formed in independent brigades, was consolidated into a corps of three divisions and a brigade of regulars, and under a system of careful and uniform inspection made rapid improvement.

  • Lauman arrived at Memphis, and I made up a sixth brigade, and organized these six brigades into three divisions, under Brigadier-Generals M.

  • I offered to go into action with my three divisions, supported by General Jeff.

  • Next was the Twenty-first Corps, three divisions,--T.

  • Crassus, his questor, and having hastily constructed some bridges, enters their country in three divisions, burns their houses and villages, and gets possession of a large number of cattle and men.

  • The next day, early in the morning, he sent both foot-soldiers and horse in three divisions on an expedition to pursue those who had fled.

  • The Turkish force, numbering 222 galleys, swept on to the attack, also in three divisions, stretched out in a wide crescent.

  • Octavius and Agrippa drew out their fleet into open water, about three-quarters of a mile from the mouth of the gulf, forming line in three divisions.

  • This also was formed in three divisions corresponding to those of their enemy.

  • The corps moved at a walk, three divisions on the same road, making a column nearly thirteen miles in length, and marched around the right flank of the enemy unsuspected until my rear guard had passed Massaponax Church.

  • McCook's wing was made up of three divisions, commanded in order of rank by Brigadier-General Jeff.

  • This appears again in the walls on either side of the sanctuary, each of which contains an arcaded recess of three divisions (the central glazed), those on the south forming the sedilia.

  • The same may be said of the lower stage, also arcaded in three divisions, corresponding with those above, but rather more massive in character.

  • The Scots advanced in three divisions, the centre under the King, the right under the Earl of Moray, the left under Robert, the High Steward of Scotland, afterwards the first Stuart King.

  • On the 18th the French threatened an attack in three divisions of ships, with the galleys as an advance guard.

  • At the foot of Telham the army deployed in three divisions, each of three lines classified according to arms.


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