A white unit could be undermannedand its instructors idle while a black unit was overcrowded and its instructors overworked.
The commander assigned them to units in his severely undermanned all-white 1st and 2d Battalions.
III The expedition had been poorly outfitted and undermanned from the beginning.
The Countess of Rothes was pulling at the oars of her boat, likewise undermanned because the crew preferred to stay behind.
This too was undermanned and the two women at once took their places at the oars.
Well, on my first trip round Cape Horn we left the Mersey undermanned and lost three of our crew before we were abreast of the Falkland Isles; two of them were hurled from the royal yard through the breaking of rotten gear.
As a result of this, he had been apprenticed to a firm of parsimonious owners, and began his career in a badly found and undermanned iron sailing ship.
Undermanned as we are, mustering a bare twenty men, in what case are we to fight?
At any point between the islands they might come upon an equal or superior craft; whether she were Spanish or English would be equally bad for them, and being undermanned they were in no case to fight.
Two months afterward he was reported fit for duty, but, in spite of the fact that he was urgently needed to help an undermanned Commission stagger through a deficit, he preferred to die; vowing at the last that he was hag-ridden.
