Numerous were thevolunteers that came forward, rendering the task of selecting a few from the number of eager willing men that presented themselves one of no little difficulty.
He said, "An order has come on board my ship, directing me to send volunteers for Arctic service to this office.
We are all mere children in the art of war; for truly before Roger Morgan first took out hisvolunteers to fight for the Dutch there was scarce a man in England who knew how to range a company in order.
In 1572 she was present at a parade of three hundred volunteers who mustered at Greenwich under Thomas Morgan and Roger Williams for service in the Netherlands.
The regiments of Blount, Gerard, and Clifford were sent to the narrowest part of the spit to prevent reinforcements being thrown into the place; while those of Essex and Vere and the gentlemen volunteers turned towards Cadiz.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, went out a few months later with 1500 men, and from that time numbers of English volunteers continued to cross the seas and join in the struggle against the Spaniards.
A messenger from Marshal Biron rode at full speed into the village, where many of the volunteers from England and Germany, besides the party of Sir Ralph Pimpernel, were lodged.
Several of my friends, however, volunteers and others, will journey with the two companies, being desirous of fighting under the banner of Henry of Navarre.
The decision of the queen was received with enthusiasm in England as well as in Holland, and although the Earl of Leicester was not personally popular, volunteers flocked to his standard.
You will, apart from your duties, and bearing in mind the difference of your age, associate with the officers and the gentlemen volunteers on terms of equality when nor engaged upon duty.
There was a large number of ships in port, for the Protestant princes of Germany were, as well as England, sending aid to Henry of Navarre, and numbers of gentlemen and volunteers were flocking to his banners.
There are many of the volunteers who are not very much older than they are," Captain Allen replied.
One cannot begin to learn the art of war too young, and it is because we have all been so ignorant of it that our volunteers in Holland have not done better.
But the work was rendered the less difficult by the admixture of the volunteers who had been bravely fighting for ten years under Morgan, Rowland Williams, John Norris, and others.
Volunteers were invited to step six paces to the front, and in the majority of cases the entire regiment appealed to advanced six paces with the precision and promptitude of a parade evolution.
Commander Hayashi, whom I believe you know, was appointed to command the expedition; and volunteers were called for in the usual way.
His call for volunteers was the consequence of war being made on the nation, and not the cause of war being made either on the South or by the South.
The enemy fired upon and took Fort Sumter before the first call for volunteers was issued; and that proceeding must be admitted to have been an act of war, unless we are prepared to admit that there is a right of Secession.
The walls of Preston recalled to many of the volunteers of Lancashire the prison in which their fathers had died of fever, or starvation, or of broken hearts.
In compliance with orders which he received from the Duke of Argyll, Lord Kilmarnock marched with his volunteers to garrison the houses of Drummakil, Cardross, and Gastartan, in order to prevent the rebels from crossing the Forth.
The three hundred thousand volunteers are coming bravely on; but, we tell you, DRAFT!
To settle disbanded volunteersin the South so as to gradually drive away slave labor by the superior value of free labor on lands confiscated or public, is certainly not a very reprehensible proposition.
That evening she was found by a party of volunteers who had been in pursuit of the Indians, and she was brought into the nearest settlement in a condition of body and mind to which even death would have been preferable.
Volunteers were invoked to go forth and prevent the British troops, under the pitiless Tarleton, from forcing their way through an important mountain pass.
What made their position still more unguarded and dangerous was the absence of their fathers, husbands, and brothers, as volunteers in the armies.
British efforts to enlist Germans as volunteers in her own army were promptly checked by the German rulers and it was necessary literally to buy the troops from their princes.
From the first some of the volunteers had elected their officers.
The term of all the volunteers in Washington's any expired by the end of 1775, so that he had to create a new army during the siege of Boston.
He asked for volunteers from the merchant ships and the sailors offered themselves almost to a man.
There was, however, a flood of volunteers of another type.
Boston was besieged by American volunteers under the command of General Artemas Ward.
They lingered at the window as long as they could catch the sound, and long after the volunteers had turned the corner of the street.
The volunteerswere neatly uniformed and very precisely drilled.
From among the volunteers I chose King, Brackenridge, Creutzfeldt, and the guide Williams; the party under the command of King.
Our volunteers and militia have confidence in men bred to the profession of arms.
These troops came from Harrison's army, and were mostly Kentucky militia and soldiers from the 28th regiment of infantry, and all volunteers for the approaching battle.
But at length two thousand men under General Porter, were got on board, while General Tannehill's volunteers and M'Clure's regiment were drawn up on the shore ready to follow.
McClure, under the plea that his militia had left him, and that those volunteers promised could not be obtained, resolved to abandon the fort without risking a battle.
To open the communication and bring up the provisions, Major Van Horne was dispatched with two hundred volunteers and militia.
Canadian militia and volunteers were found in the Indian armies, while the battle that completed their overthrow ended under the walls of a British fort standing on American ground.
City of London Imperial Volunteers in the South African War and an expert on the utilisation of railways for artillery.
From every portion of the island came young volunteers of the finest physique; many of them were South African veterans, and all were excellent rifle shots and splendid natural soldiers.
He was certain that the Volunteers would become an integral part of the defensive forces of the Crown.
A small section of the National Volunteers had issued an anti-recruiting manifesto in the morning, and police and National Volunteers were ready to avert a disturbance, but these precautions were not needed.
Meanwhile rumours had reached London that officers in Ireland had resigned to avoid serving against Ulster; and many Unionists believed that British troops were to be ordered to shoot down the Ulster Volunteers at once.
A Provisional Committee, mainly self-elected, was about to devise a constitution and appoint leaders for the Irish Volunteers (A.
Volunteers came forward in larger numbers than could be handled.
Gun-running by Irish Volunteers at Howth; the Scottish Borderers subsequently fired on the crowd.
Meanwhile the Under-Secretary, not finding Mr. Harrel, had left a Minute directing him that forcible disarmament of the Volunteers should not be attempted, but that their names should be taken and the destination of the arms traced.
Provisional Committee of Volunteers and the Nationalist party, [121].
Volunteers of the South had arisen spontaneously, and for purely defensive purposes.
And I had seen, between the first and second lines of trenches, an army of volunteers and patriots--and gentlemen.
We called for volunteers from the line to try to lift the car onto the road.
I had seen the colonial children of England in the field, volunteers who had risen to the call of the mother country.
Volunteers had to be equipped and drilled--a matter of months.
Conscription may form a great and admirable machine, but it differs from the trained army of volunteers as a body differs from a soul.
So were there as volunteers those who brought their individual swords to the service of the New World.
And so it may be said that the cause of the New World was the cause of the volunteers of the Old.
He understood entirely that he had to obey the officers of his own regiment, but, like so many volunteers, or at least like so many volunteers of my regiment, he did not understand that this obligation extended to officers of other regiments.
To counterbalance the newspapers which ignorantly and indiscriminately praised all the volunteers there were others whose blame was of the same intelligent quality.
The New Mexican volunteerswere keeping the enemy from the water and skirmishing briskly at times.
A week or so later, on July 2, the Volunteers first met on Wimbledon Common; the competition was opened by Her Majesty discharging her rifle and scoring the inaugural bull's eye.
These were composed of volunteers from other regiments and of casual recruits.
These strained amenities are an effort to him who volunteers them, and an infliction to him who receives them, a failure and a mistake, in fact, all round.
We can get everybody together somewhere, I dare say, and then secure volunteers for the work.
They labored as before, while deep down in the sub-basement of the colossal building Arthur and his volunteers toiled mightily.
Van Deventer spoke encouragingly, and then asked for volunteers for immediate work.
Second Manassas offers an interesting contrast to the opening battle which had found two armies of raw, undisciplined volunteers courageously but falteringly battling for supremacy.
The raw volunteers had now been replaced by seasoned veterans, hardened by months of strenuous campaigning.
No time should be lost in re-enforcing me here with at least ten thousand men—volunteers or militia.
If, however, the ladies were young and good-looking there was never much difficulty noticeable in findingvolunteers to take on this arduous duty.
She was manned mostly byvolunteers from marine artillery, passengers, and that incident always struck me as being comical.
This gave me great pleasure, for the volunteers were very wroth at being beaten by a sailor.
In the winter of 1918, as Commander-in-Chief of the Volunteer Army, I received an offer from a group of German officers to join our army as volunteers in the ranks.
The latter, although they were volunteers who knew what they were fighting for, left the ranks and fled from the battlefield after losing 10 per cent.
More than once our volunteers saw the German officers, formerly so haughty and so frigid, weeping bitterly over their degradation.
Special shock battalions were formed of cadets and volunteers to fight against desertion, plunder and violence.
Nor were any foreign troops or volunteers to be allowed into Serbian territory.
From Serbia itself came many volunteers to aid their brothers who were trying to throw off the Magyar yoke; they came with the connivance of Prince Alexander, in fact, he sent one of his generals to lead them.
But anyhow the names of all these volunteers could not be celebrated, on account of their great number.
He called for a thousand volunteers to join the advance-guard of the coming Brotherhood of Man, each contributing a thousand dollars.
We do not need at present hunters, fishermen, or preachers, and have not called for volunteers in these departments of labour.
Finally the future generalissimos, decided to enlist as simple volunteers .
The Chant du Depart, the martial hymn of the volunteers of the first Republic, had been exhumed by the instinct of a people which seek the voice of Art in its most critical moments.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "volunteers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
