Citation: As Commanding Officer of detachments from the 5th, 13th, 23d Companies and the marine and sailor detachment from the U.S.S. Connecticut, Maj. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The Exercise force consisted of a Company of the Royal Canadian Regiment, with supporting detachments from the Signal, Medical and Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Corps, totalling in all, 240 men. ❋ Unknown (1950)
When public trials were happening she had taken her place in the detachments from the Youth League who surrounded the courts from morning to night, chanting at intervals Death to the traitors! ❋ Unknown (1949)
Other conscripts, in detachments, tramped by on foot with bags and banners. ❋ Unknown (1915)
The men worked all night in detachments, watch and watch. ❋ Pauline Elizabeth (1902)
The robins are getting quite numerous; they seem to come in detachments, or possibly they only pass from one neighborhood to another in flocks. ❋ Unknown (1887)
The men come down in detachments to a kind of rough quay just behind the governor's house; there they embark in big, deep boats, which are rowed gradually alongside the Khedivial steamers by a couple of men who have only sticks by the way of oars. ❋ Unknown (1885)
With men like his scattered about in detachments over large extents of country, it was most important to keep up discipline and obedience to orders. ❋ Unknown (1885)
Villeroy, with his detachments from the French Flemish army, was completely bewildered by Marlborough's movements, and, unable to divine where it was that the ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)
The Birkenhead, a war steamer used as a transport, was on her way to Algoa Bay with about 630 persons on board, 132 being her own crew, the rest detachments from the 12th, 74th, and 91st Regiments, and the wives and children of the soldiers. ❋ Unknown (1864)
We met with a reverse, a single reverse, for the repulse of small detachments is of no consideration, and we fled. ❋ Unknown (1856)
Sometimes the plunderers fell in with parties of militia or with detachments from the English garrisons, in situations in which disguise, flight and resistance were alike impossible. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)
He issued the necessary orders for carrying into execution the commands of Constantius; a part of the troops began their march for the Alps; and the detachments from the several garrisons moved towards their respective places of assembly. ❋ Unknown (1206)
But Roger was quickly at his side, taking his own share of hard blows; and as the foot and horse from behind pressed on after the impetuous leaders, and more and more detachments from the French army came up to assist their comrades, the melee became very thick, and in the crush it was impossible to see what was happening except just in front, and to avoid the blows levelled at him was all that Raymond was able to think of for many long minutes -- minutes that seemed more like hours. ❋ Evelyn Everett-Green (1894)
These forces left in contact are referred to as detachments left in contact (DLIC). ❋ United States Army (1987)
The other theater commands had accepted OSS detachments. ❋ Douglas Waller (2011)
To increase the chances of trapping them he divided the 7th Cavalry into several detachments so he could attack from multiple directions. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)
The navy would blockade and raid the Atlantic seaboard from New England to the Chesapeake, while detachments from New York would recover the South, restoring Loyalists to power gradually from Georgia to the Carolinas to Virginia. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)
Initially pessimistic, Jesup eventually devised an effective methodology of gathering intelligence, establishing a network of supply depots, and using mobile columns and small detachments to maintain pressure on known enemy strongholds. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)
