Then he attacked the vanguard and burst into the thickest of the enemy, driving the Swedes struggling in a panic every way with spear and sword.
As it passed by him, and he in turn by it, it showed its vanguard to the rising and its rear to the setting sun.
But if any one of the commons went in front of the vanguard in battle, he was to rise from a slave into a freeman, and from a peasant into a nobleman; but if he were nobly-born already, he should be created a governor.
It was in the month of April, 1866, that the vanguard of these destructive insects appeared.
The latter form, in some sort, the vanguard and the light troops; the others, the heavy battalions.
Know then, King Kew and Princess Lilla, that if ever such a day comes, Myles Cabot can be counted on to fight in the vanguard of the army of liberation.
When our vanguard arrived, our students were already in control.
They again allowed the vanguard to pass unmolested and surprised the center with a galling fire.
At last the work was ended at fearful cost; but as the vanguard sullenly withdrew behind it, from the whole length burst a havoc of flame upon the advancing Frenchmen.
The vanguard of our horse was naturally very much in advance, and had arrived in the great square and up to the dwellings where our quarters were prepared.
It was night when the vanguard reached this threatening spot.
As yet only thevanguard of the Austrians had arrived.
It had seen troops in motion towards Metz, but did not know whether these formed the rear-guard or the vanguardof the French army in its march towards Verdun.
It was held by an outpost of 300 men, who were dislodged by the vanguard under Santander without much difficulty.
Courcelle, always impetuous, was the first to leave the fort; he led a vanguard of four hundred men which included those from Montreal.
The vanguard had a brush with two hundred Iroquois, who slipped away after killing six French soldiers and leaving four of their own number dead.
At nine in the morning the vanguard of the Norman army appeared over the brow of a rise, and the English at once took up their positions.
The Vanguard had been engaged with the Spartiate and the Aquilon.
He rested some time at home; and then, early in 1798, sailed in the Vanguard to join the fleet under Lord St. Vincent.
The appearance of the Assyrian vanguard put a speedy end to his ideas of resistance: prostrating himself before his powerful adversary, he offered hostages, and emptied his palaces and stables to provide a ransom.
On the 9th of Thoth, Piônkhi came down to Thebes, and after hasty attendance at the services to Amon, went to rejoin the vanguard of his army under the walls of Hermopolis.
This "grasshopper" locomotive was in use a generation later when it hauled the vanguard of Union soldiers to save the national capital in 1861.
Behind this vanguardhe placed the Celts, and in the rear of all the cavalry.
Mr. Capes, however in his note on the passage of Livy, seems to think that both accounts agree in representing the fighting on the vanguard as being opposite Tucro.
After this he got his whole force ready to start; and despatching the vanguard by maniples at intervals, when a thousand had been massed in this way, after a short pause, he marched himself with the main body.
Full logical justification is, therefore, claimed for the choice of mathematical evidences to test the assumption that a new era of conscious mental conquest is opening for the vanguard of humanity and sequently for the human family.
A solid army was pressing behind thevanguard of soldier, scout, and plainsman.
His steady advance, now on this flank, now on that, just back of the vanguard pushing westward, had marked the end of all our earlier frontiers.
On June 3, the vanguard of the Russian main army occupied Pressburg.
On April 7, the French vanguard crossed the Bidassoa, and the Duke entered Irun, welcomed by Spanish royalists.
The Turkish vanguard was routed and the Turkish main column fell back on Aleppo, leaving Antioch and all the surrounding country to the Egyptians.
As soon as these reinforcements came, Ordoñez set out from Talcahuano with the vanguard to march on Santiago de Chile, and met the patriot forces near Talca.
Here Demetrios Ypsilanti with a few hundred men repulsed the Turkish vanguard at Lerna.
The vanguard wound their way round the base of a mountain that barred their approach to the town, and, instead of advancing, worked round till they met their rearguard, whom they mistook for the enemy, and furiously attacked.
On the 27th they descried seven sail at sea, and put out five canoes to reconnoitre, suspecting it was the vanguard of the Peruvian fleet.
Each party displayed bloody flags, but the vanguard beat them with wonderful bravery, and took fifty horses.
On the 7th the vanguarddrove off an ambuscade, and lay that evening in a hatto.
His vanguard under Ramirez, one thousand five hundred to two thousand strong, with eight guns, occupied Jujui, and his cavalry scoured the country as far as Salta.
The vanguard under Soler, and the reserve under O’Higgins, marched by the pass of Los Patos.
The Patriot vanguard under Luis Carrera came up with Pareja on the 15th May, as he was about to pass the Nuble.
He halted at La Puerta, for him a most ominous position, and was there attacked on the morning of the 16th March by the Royalist vanguard under Morales.
His vanguard was driven in, but the Albion re-established the fight, and decided the day by an impetuous charge with the bayonet; the Royalists retreated to Patia.
He with his men, formed the vanguard of the first Patriot army which invaded Upper Peru.
At the town of Sumalao, Alvarez found the vanguard of the Guachipas awaiting him.
He had sent off a small division against Arenales, and now threw out a vanguard of about 2,000 men to keep watch over the movements of San Martin.
With this vanguard was the battalion of Numancia, the men of which were for the most part natives of Venezuela, and the officers were all Americans.
In December Freyre crossed the Nuble with the vanguard and occupied Chillán, which was evacuated on his approach.
He left a company of infantry with two guns to defend the bridge, who capitulated to the Royalist vanguard at the first summons.
When we had gone a mile beyond Mentana the vanguard was suddenly attacked, and we had to fall back on Mentana, so as to form our battalions in line of battle.
He was now assailing the unknown position of the Liberals boldly, with his vanguard en echelon, being himself in the center of the line.
The vanguard of the mercenaries was so demoralized as to retreat, and while supports, led on by the intrepid chief, were staying their backward progress, the confusion gave the Italians time to make their retreat in good order.
My wound is deep, I fain wad sleep; Take thou the vanguard of the three, And hide me by the bracken bush That grows on yonder lilye lea.
It was all over with him in an instant; he fell at once into the hands of the vanguard of the mob.
In the vanguard rode the flower of the army, a noble cavalcade of knights, clad in complete armor, and including nearly the whole of the ancient nobility of Austria.
There were in all about seventy-seven thousand men in the army whose vanguardascended the Kahlen Hill on that critical 11th of September, and announced its coming to the beleaguered citizens by its three signal shots.
Ibrahim Pasha, who led thevanguard of the Turkish force, ordered the occupation of this mountain fortress, and learned with anger and mortification that Guntz had closed its gates and frowned defiance on his men.
The Austrian cavalry of the vanguard was in a state of frightful confusion and dismay.
You are the vanguard of the soldiers of our liberties.
