Bagshot, as, disorganised by the vedettes riding through their flank into the zeriba, the Bengalese wavered.
You'll find it 'otter still when the vedettes and Cossack Posts come leadin' in the Osnum Digners.
The while vedettes were posted, and the police, split up into groups, were discussing their rations.
The vedettes thrown out on four sides, three men strong apiece, might as well not have been there now.
From the sides on which the shots were fired the vedettes were now seen running in.
They pointed in the direction in which the vedettes had appeared, and shook their heads like men who have many and grave misgivings.
There was nothing left to pursue now, for amid the undulations of the sand-drift the vedettes might have gone in any direction.
Then the vedettes had better look out, for those we meet when we charge through in column will be in a very awkward position.
Depend upon it, they'll have vedettesout all along the line.
On their side, the insurgents posted-vedettes at the corner of the streets, and audaciously sent patrols beyond the barricades.
The black dots, with pennons, indicate the general position of the vedettes at this point, though, of course, they are continually advancing.
It is upon the alertness of those vedettes on front and flanks that the safety of the force in great measure depends.
There was a swarm of Cossacks between Kamara and the road to Mackenzie's farm, and their vedettes were posted along the heights over the Woronzoff-road.
They pushed vedettes up to the top of Canrobert's Hill (formerly the site of Redoubt No.
They had a picket of ten horsemen at Kamara, from which the vedettes on the top of Canrobert's Hill were furnished, and they had a similar body of eight horsemen on the slope at the back of No.
The ridge once gained, the country extended before one in a spacious plateau, with conical mounds and tumuli, forming natural advanced posts for vedettes in the distance.
As our troops advanced, the Cossacks and vedettes fell back, firing their carbines and muskets into the darkness.
Just as the sun rose, the eternal Cossack vedettes came in view on the hill-tops to the east, each figure standing out sharp and black against the glowing background.
Our vedettes on the mound over that road nearest to our lines had also been doubled.
A little before daybreak the advanced posts of the Sardinian army, placed as vedettes as far as the heights of Tchouliou, fell back, and announced that the enemy was advancing in considerable force.
The vedettes fell back on a strong body of Lancers and Light Cavalry, which seemed disposed to await the shock of the French Chasseurs.
Then cavalry and infantry moved upon the plain, remaining in rear of the eminences from which the movements of the vedettes had been observed.
A Russian picket was stationed at about rifle-shot distance beyond the river, along the further bank of which Cossack and Dragoon vedettes were posted at short intervals.
These we could not occupy, for want of men; but only maintain vedettes upon them.
Anderson's division above and Hood's below, the latter meeting Stuart's cavalry vedettes lower down.
He retired behind the Run at Mitchell's Ford, his vedettes following after exchanging shots with the enemy's advance on the 18th.
General Wheeler had been ordered to have vedettes along the river from Loudon to some distance below Kingston, where a considerable body of Union troops occupied the north bank.
At Hawes's Shop a picket was driven off and several vedettes captured.
They heard the river, they heard the voices of the blue vedettes upon the farther side.
The visitors descended the Lainerie to the vedettes again; the Porches watched them go; and once more I had the Place St Sauveur to myself.
The crowded vedettes had long since departed, and the comparatively few visitors who stay in Dinan were probably at the Cafe de Bretagne at the other side of the town.
But duty is duty, so I rode past Marbot's vedettes and on in the direction of the wood, passing the village of Frishermont upon my left.
For an hour I watched them pass, and I reflected that their vanguard must have come into touch with Marbot's vedettes and that the Emperor knew already of their coming.
I had just ridden past the last vedettes and hoped that I was a free man again, when there was a soft thudding in the snow behind me, and a heavy man upon a great black horse came swiftly after me.
A few days after the battle Johnston advanced to Centreville, and from the heights above the broad Potomac his cavalry vedettes looked upon the spires of Washington.
On reaching our pickets we showed our authority to pass, and were informed that the enemy's vedettes ran along the ridge on which we had fought the day before.
I soon learned that the vedettes of the enemy had disappeared from before our lines, and that our skirmishers were advancing.
Beyond this were our vigilant pickets, and then the vedettesof the enemy.
When the vedettes are separated--just before they turn to come back--that's your time.
The infantry spied him first--the two vedettes were in the act of wheeling about and heard the warning before they saw.
Who's trying to bring the enemy down upon us now, when we know there are some of them sneaking about in vedettes as they hold both ends of the valley.
I sha'n't be able to stir, and I dare say they'll have more vedettes stationed about.
This naturally excited the suspicions of the patrol, to whom the mounted vedettes reported, and a small mounted body of men was sent to make a circuit and cut them off in case they attempted to retire.
No trumpet was sounded, but lance signals were employed to tell the vedettes to close in upon the column as it advanced nearer to the kraal.
A squadron was sent at Colonel Black's suggestion to hold the gorge of the Bashee on the right, and a number of vedettes were occupied in patrolling the left of the same valley.
Vedettes were again thrown out, lance in sling and carbine on thigh.
Piquets, as usual, were thrown out on the neighbouring heights, and a chain of vedettes posted, which commanded ten miles of country in every direction.
Here a halt was made; vedettes were placed, and a meal was partaken of.
The vedettes could not quite make out their proceedings, as, when halfway across the stream, they turned back, ascended a neighbouring kop, and spent a considerable time in reconnoitring the position of the fort.
Crossing the river by an easy ford, they had ridden on about another mile, when they observed some of the vedettes on the high ground to the left signalling that horsemen were approaching.
On the afternoon of the 27th, vedettessignalled the approach of some natives, accompanied by a large number of cattle.
Crowds of vedettes swarmed along the sides of the valley ready to outflank any enemy or take him in reverse should he appear.
Quietly dismounting, and placing two men, both as vedettes and in charge of the horses, the remainder took up position and waited for the denouement of this somewhat exciting little episode.
Vedettes were now ordered to push along the ridges to right and left, and to signal as they advanced, while the main body of horsemen, in sections of fours, were led by the General down the north-eastern side of the krantz.
Don Ramon's vedettes as they were driven in, and the skipper's eyes flashed as he placed a little whistle to his lips and blew shrilly, bringing his own men together at the run.
He could give his orders to their vedettes just as he did to the French.
There were many reports of sharp brushes between our cavalry vedettes and those of the enemy.
We haven't even had a glimpse of the enemy, and by all we can hear their cavalry vedettes are at least four marches away.
We heard hoofs, and ran up to the first house and waited; and then two vedettescame up and stopped at the wagon, and we heard the French lingo, sir.
Fording the swollen river with 600 chasseurs of the Guard at a spot some distance above the ruined arches, he drove back the vedettes in his front and pushed rapidly across the plain in the direction of Benavente.
The vedettes never pulled up until they were in rear of the hindermost wagon, while their countrymen on the flanks and rear made for the same poor shelter.
From him I got the reports from the vedettes at the front, and after ordering a reconnoissance to be pushed well forward, turned back to inspect the infantry line of sentinels.
We reached Subligna at noon, driving vedettes and patrols of the enemy's cavalry as we advanced.
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