Troops were in the field on both sides—so the despatch said—and the insurgents were loudly boasting of their determination to march on and capture Managua, the capital, and overthrow the government of President Zelaya.
Somewhere in its apparently uninhabited sweep they knew that Rogero and his army and Estrada’s troops were maneuvering, but nothing that they could see gave them any inkling as to the exact whereabouts of the troops.
This became afterward a general practice, and in those aguish swamps through which the troops were forced to march, was the means of saving many lives.
McPherson had fought at Raymond, and taken the left-hand road toward Jackson, via Clinton, while mytroops were ordered by General Grant in person to take the right-hand road leading through Mississippi Springs.
All my troops were in line of battle, ready, and the ground was favorable to us.
It has been often said that our troops were maddened by the sight of the skeletons of their fallen comrades, and that they were carried on by the irrepressible energy of revenge.
No troops werein waiting beyond a single wing of a battalion drawn up to salute the arrival and departure of the British Mission.
The people believed that the British troops were about to fire all the villages; so they began at once to remove their property, and to fly in every direction from their homes.
The news that a French army had laid down its arms caused an immense sensation in an age when Napoleon's troops were held to be invincible.
An excuse was easily found for a rupture with the Order: some companies of troops were disembarked, and hostilities commenced.
Gibbon's troops were to cross the Yellowstone at the mouth of Big Horn River, and march up the Big Horn to its junction with the Little Big Horn, to co-operate with Custer.
At the point where Early's troops werein position, between the Massanutten range and Little North Mountain, the valley is only about three and a half miles wide.
The assault was quickly repulsed by Emory, however, and as the enemy fell back Getty's troops were returned to their original place.
Troops were embarked in England for another campaign in the West Indies; a regiment of four battalions was to be raised in the colonies and sent to join them at Jamaica.
A large part of the New York and New England troops were stationed at this post, not merely to guard the Hudson, but to render aid either to the Eastern or Middle States in case of exigency.
Boats for the transportation oftroops were launched, and moored under the sterns of the men-of-war.
Going into one of the angles of a worm fence near by I took a rail from the top and put it through the lower rails at a proper height from the ground to make a seat, and General Thomas and I sat down while, my troops were moving by.
Troops were hurried to Harper's Ferry from Baltimore and Washington.
In vain they pointed out, in answer to the reply that the Government could furnish neither men nor arms, that large bodies oftroops were retained at points the occupation of which by the enemy would cause only a local inconvenience.
During the first three weeks in June he received repeated assurances from Mr. Stanton that large bodies of troops were on their way to join him, and it was for these that he was waiting.
It will be sufficient for the present to state that Jackson's troops were to encamp on the night of the 25th east of Ashland, fifteen miles north of Richmond, between the village and the Virginia Central Railway.
Meanwhile Pulteney's troops were at Volksrust, and those of Garratt moving, via Wakkerstroom, on Utrecht.
The attack was really to be made on Lokko, but my troops were also to be overpowered when unsuspectingly returning by a night march with the spoil.
I told him that my troops were lambs if well fed, but they were like lions if hungry, and to prove their number I would summon them before him.
My troops were Mohammedans, without an opposing sect, therefore, for lack of opposition, they were lukewarm believers.
The boys had been walking during the conversation, and by the time it was concluded they had passed the artillery park, arriving at that portion of the encampment where the New Jersey troops were quartered.
The order I brought General Dickinson was that the troops were to sleep on their arms, and I suppose we are at liberty to remain anywhere within these lines.
His eyes were occasionally turned to the vale where Cromwell’s troops were encamped.
Troops were hurried in from all parts of the South.
The afternoon wore away before the troops were ready.
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