Regiments

Examples

• First there had been columns, then there were regiments, then there were brigades. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Under these circumstances it is not astonishing that many of the regiments broke at the first fire. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The quota of Illinois had been fixed at six regiments; and it was supposed that one company would be as much as would be accepted from Galena. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was a brigade composed of six full regiments commanded by Colonel Thayer, of Nebraska. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We immediately made application to be transferred, so as to get back to our old regiments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Two choice regiments, recently arrived from Lombardy, led the onset, rending the air with their shouts and confident of an easy victory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At last all the examinations were passed, and the members of the class were called upon to record their choice of arms of service and regiments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The regiments in the line get pretty good food but those in support don't get so much. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Palmer was my senior and commanded the two regiments as long as we remained together. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This brought into the United States service all the regiments then in the State service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He was in command at Booneville on the 1st of July with two small regiments, when he was attacked by a force full three times as numerous as his own. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I saw him berating them and trying to shame them into joining their regiments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As I have stated, the legislature authorized the governor to accept the services of ten additional regiments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The 3d and 4th regiments of infantry made an advance nearly to the plaza in this way and with heavy loss. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In two cases, as I now remember, colonels led their regiments from the field on first hearing the whistle of the enemy's bullets. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He appealed to the people of the South-west for new regiments, and received a few. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Without orders or authority he sent three regiments to make the assault. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The bands of the regiments were making music at all hours. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• My force consisted of a little over 3,000 men and embraced five regiments of infantry, two guns and two companies of cavalry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Several other regiments were ordered to the same destination about the same time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We had many regiments of brave and loyal men who volunteered under great difficulty from the twelve million belonging to the South. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He gave orders for the retreat to be sounded, and the regiments repaired in good order to the camp. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Colonel Mason was one of the officers who had led their regiments off the field at almost the first fire of the rebels at Shiloh. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The recruits were principally men from regiments stationed there and already in the service, bound for three years if the war lasted that long. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The forlorn hoop was a body of men, usually volunteers, selected from different regiments, to lead an assault, enter a breach or perform some other service attended with uncommon peril. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I had charge of mustering these regiments into the State service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I had but two regiments and one battery with me, but the enemy did not know this and returned to Columbus. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The four regiments were to be taken from troops near the river so that there would be no delay. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They were very thankfully received, and the kindness acknowledged by letters to me from the colonels of both regiments, in the most grateful terms. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Briefly they are these: The Royal Munsters is, as you know, one of the most famous Irish regiments in the British army. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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