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Example sentences for "three squadrons"

  • All the cavalry of the right wing of the Prussians, except two or three squadrons, had already marched to the left at full gallop; and being arrived at the place assigned them, they formed over against that of the enemy.

  • Then he assembled the army between Borschloen and Groes Waren, and found it amounted to seventy-four battalions of foot, and one hundred and twenty-three squadrons of horse and dragoons, well furnished with artillery and pontoons.

  • So he opened fire without notice, argument, or parley, and an ill-aimed volley shrieked over the heads of Cunningham's three squadrons.

  • They were met some ten yards their side of the half-way mark by Cunningham's three squadrons, loosed and led by Cunningham himself.

  • In all haste he drew up his men in three squadrons also, and leaving some for the defence of the camp, he went out to meet them.

  • The French official record gives forty-two battalions (not forty-six) and eighty-three squadrons in the place of one hundred and eight.

  • This force was forty-two battalions and eighty-three squadrons strong.

  • Nominally the Dunkirk force was to consist of three squadrons of twelve machines each, but in these early days two or three machines were, often the most that a squadron could muster.

  • From this base he despatched upon the morning of April 1st three squadrons of the Bays under Colonel Fanshawe, for the purpose of surprising a small force of the enemy which was reported at one of the farms.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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