Brigades

Examples

• First there had been columns, then there were regiments, then there were brigades. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Three brigades held the hill already gained. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Logan was in advance with one of his brigades. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Also we still have the Brigades although their role is changing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The men, attached to brigades or divisions, would all commence at once raising the wires with their telegraph poles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were at Corinth also Davies' division and two brigades of McArthur's, besides cavalry and artillery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He did on the 30th send Pickett with five brigades to reinforce Five Forks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sherman was directed to order up Blair, who had been left behind to guard the road from Milliken's Bend to Hard Times with two brigades. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These brigades occupied the summit of the mountain. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There are now on their way to join you three other brigades of the best cavalry, numbering at least five thousand men and horses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The enemy had the east bank of the creek strongly picketed and intrenched, and three brigades of troops in the rear to reinforce them if attacked. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Hearing the sounds of battle General Wallace early ordered his First and Third brigades to concentrate on the Second. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Now there were brigades and divisions, both. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He commands a division, which is two brigades. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Thomas sent Schofield with the 4th and 23d corps, together with three brigades of Wilson's cavalry to Pulaski to watch him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He is the chief commissar of the International Brigades. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He was followed by the three infantry brigades, with a day's interval between the commands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A sharp engagement took place between these three brigades of cavalry and the enemy's infantry, but the latter was repulsed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Also words like Brigades, Divisions, Army Corps confused him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• General Scott coming upon the battle-field about this juncture, ordered two brigades, under Shields, to move north and turn the right of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Two of his brigades were sent up the bayou to find a crossing and reach the North Fork to repair the bridge there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Then he was twice repulsed with heavy loss, though he had an entire corps against two brigades. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were the two ridges, and there were the tanks ahead and there were his two good brigades ready to leave the woods and here came the planes now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• At eleven o'clock, not having heard from Sheridan, I reinforced Parke with two brigades from City Point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Hancock sent two brigades, Egan's and Pierce's, to the right and left, and when properly disposed they charged simultaneously. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Arriving near the army they would be parked in fields nearest to the brigades they belonged to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Hancock immediately sent two divisions, commanded by Birney and Mott, and later two brigades, Carroll's and Owen's, to the support of Getty. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The mules thus loaded were assigned to brigades, and always kept with the command they were assigned to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The remainder of the army, probably not more than twenty five hundred men, was divided into three brigades, with the cavalry independent. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I know every one of these two Brigades. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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