Blue Ridge, and that only a few cavalry videttes were seen about Middleburg, and none on the Snickersville Pike.
At the first shot, the reserve would mount; and soon the videttes would come running in at full speed.
Major Gilmer went to Middleburg, and, while returning, the videttes of the First Vermont Cavalry noticed a part of his advance and prepared to skirmish.
The videttes were on the alert, and gave the alarm.
The videttes were stationed so close together that it was impossible to pass them without being discovered; and a snowbird could not fly by without being fired at.
The report of the videttes was questioned in its accuracy by some, and each man strove to pierce the mist, and give the first warning of the enemy's advance.
Night drew on; rain and sleet veiled the prospect; the videttes descended the ridge, and joined their comrades round the great bonfire, which was no easy matter to keep up, from the scarcity of wood.
At dawn of day, the videttes reported the appearance of a mounted reconnoitring party from the enemy's force, and within half an hour every man was at his post; Gray taking his place at the gun he was to serve.
Videttes bore the tidings of the different military operations from the neighborhood of the enemy.
At nightfall videttes were posted, and thus ended a dark and bloody day.
At daylight our videttes reported that the enemy had retired or was lying low for an attack.
He fortified the approaches, repaired the curtains, videttes and battlements, and added new bastions and other works of defence.
Portions of the walls which had been damaged by time were repaired, and new videttes and towers were erected on the flanks.
His videttes in front of Ruffin's house on the New Market road were soon driven in on their main line, and the high ground before the house was immediately occupied by Torbert and Gregg, supported by Kautz's division.
I therefore directed the sabre battalion of the regiment, followed by that portion of it armed with revolving rifles, to dash forward in column, cut off these videttes before they could cross the stream, and then gather them in.
I did not know exactly how far toward Hatcher's Run this part of the works extended, for here the videttes of Mumford's cavalry were covering, but I did know where the refusal began.
Not many, to be sure--no more numerous than two or three to one; so back fall the videttes and forward charges that advance guard like a thunderbolt, not troubling the column behind.
It took a roundabout climb of one hundred yards to get to the top of that rock, so there was nothing for videttes and guards to do but pop back, which they did to no purpose.
As the enemy were in great force, and commanded by the Vizier in person, an action was daily expected, and the pickets and videttes were ordered to be peculiarly on the alert.
The first order was, to clear the quarters of the regiment of those encumbrances, and the next to direct the videttes to fire without challenging.
At dark, the videttes and sentries were posted as usual, and the officer took his post in the old field redoubt, which had been the headquarters of the pickets for the last fortnight.
Colonel Webb's regiment was in charge of two miles of the front; and, in a similar manner, the chain of videttes was extended by other corps right and left for more than eighty miles.
This Colonel Webb was a lawyer by profession, and seemed a capital fellow; and he insisted on riding with us to the videttes in spite of the rain, and he also desired his regiment to turn out for us by the time we returned.
The picket lines are well out, andvidettes are still farther out.
A picket line is somewhere outside and cavalry videttes outside of that.
One of the videttes hath brought in a young girl who declares she hath a permit to pass the lines.
They themselves had scarcely time for concealment in a deep thicket and swamp which bordered one extremity of the farm before the British videttes were in sight.
On falling in with the enemy, the advanced videttes will fire off their carabines to announce it, and if their opponents fall back they will continue their onward movement.
Well, the soldiers had crossed the river and were just going to begin the work they had come to do, when the guns of the videttes were heard, and they were seen running down the hill with the British close after them.
Two videttes had been placed by Sumpter, on the road along which Tarlton had advanced, who fired upon his van and killed one of his dragoons, upon which they were both sabred.
Sumpter had reached the banks of the Tyger, when the firing of his videttes announced the approach of his enemy.
Their videttes alone were to be seen on the peaks of the hills.
Snatching one up he began to wave it in certain eccentric movements which Red Huggins, who held the book, knew to be a query as to what the outposts or videttes had discovered.
Within the next half hour not only did Ted and his companion arrive, but the two videttes and signal men reached camp.
Pickets and videttes were placed in the woods to the south, through which the roads led to Philadelphia, and a body of six hundred Pennsylvania militia were stationed to keep watch on the roads leading to White Marsh.
All I can tell you is, that he was picked up dying on the beach, at eleven o'clock at night, by some of our men stationed as videttes to watch the bay.
The terrain on which the adversaries would have to manoeuvre was extremely limited, for scarce four leagues separated the videttes of the two armies.
The videttes of the Bengal Lancers, who were now at the front, brought in the news of their approach, and the infantry and guns moved out to check them.
Shortly before one o'clock on the 5th, the Persian videttes and reconnoitring parties were made out; but they very rapidly retreated.
Suddenly a yell was heard, some cavalry videttes came galloping in, and in a moment 5000 Arabs were rushing upon the unclosed square.
In front of the posts, videttes were placed during the night, who were relieved every two hours.
On this part of the line it was not the custom to station videttes in front of the picket pits at night, as was usually done.
He warned his rescuer to be very cautious, as the rebel videttes were near.
She knew that at this moment they were spread out below like the videttes of an army.
When the noisy crowd surged into the Rue de Rivoli it passed between the mounted videttes of the Garde Républicaine.
The devoted horse is in fact a well-conditioned animal; and placing our videttes again, we proceed to the thicket to slaughter him.
It was soon over, and videttes were thrown out on the tracks that led to the ruin.
We keep two videttes constantly on the look-out--one upon the hill, the other commanding the mouth of the defile.
The enemy would now be certain to have their videttes at both ends, and it promised to be clear moonlight until morning.
No doubt, then, on that very cliff would thevidettes be stationed.
Lieutenant McNulty received the enemy with his fire at about one hundred yards, and then joined his battalion with his men, when the videttesrode back to my main position.
The Major reports: "About dawn, the cavalry videttes fired three shots, wheeled and galloped back.
Knowing that there were videttes sitting somewhere at the front in the dark, we concluded to go back about two miles to a plantation, and call at one of the outermost negro houses for information.
The videttes soon after reported the enemy advancing, with a squadron of cavalry in the lead, and I put my artillery in position to give them a raking fire when they should reach a bend of the road.
The moonshiner videttes are having another talk," Bob remarked, as they sat and watched several lights carrying on in this weird fashion.
Possibly some of those moonshiner videttes must have started up, wondering what on earth could be occurring in the camp of the Boy Scouts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "videttes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
