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Example sentences for "army corps"

  • I am a major general of volunteers, commanding the 16th army corps.

  • I am a lieutenant colonel and assistant adjutant general of the 16th army corps.

  • The Second Wing, intended to operate with the Second and Third Army Corps, consisted of Squadrons Nos.

  • I never left his presence without feeling that we were bound to win: he was worth an Army Corps by himself.

  • It stated that a long column, whose strength was estimated to be that of an army corps, was moving westward on the Brussels-Ninove road.

  • He is now in command of two of the divisions detached from the Sixteenth Army Corps--namely, that of Kimball and that of W.

  • He is a good officer to command a division in an army corps, but should not be intrusted with any important independent command.

  • Now mind you this was an army (the 7th Army Corps) about thirty thousand strong; mostly Western troops, and splendidly armed and equipped.

  • What took place from then until the regiment was mustered out of service, I only know from heresay, but it is safe to say that the regiment maintained its reputation as one of the best infantry regiments in the 7th Army Corps.

  • Sunday, a detachment of cavalry, with two guns, arrived at Taïf, under the command of a Circassian colonel belonging to the 53rd regiment of the 7th Army Corps.

  • Each cavalry brigade attached to an army corps consisted of 1400 horses and men, with some thirty-five light machine-guns and wagons.

  • But to return to the relation of our latest and most disastrous defeat, which I must preface by saying that my readers must not be deceived by the words ‘Army Corps’ as applied to the various assemblages of our troops.

  • If she had risked three or four, out of her twenty-three, army corps, and had aimed at the heart of the British Empire?

  • Thus it was that the 2nd Army Corps, under the command of General Sir H.

  • Bodies of them still held out at Aubers and at Herlies, two contiguous villages to the south-east of Laventie, but both those places were on October 16 attacked by the troops of the British 2nd Army Corps.

  • The Germans had now brought up a mass of fresh forces, including their 14th Army Corps, additional battalions of jaegers, and four divisions of cavalry.

  • I still consider, as indicated therein, that the best and most practicable method of stopping enemy's communications is to push forward to the south-east from Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

  • Army Corps as my minimum unless some neutral or Allied Power is going to help us against the Turks.

  • He is taking over the 29th Division from Hunter-Weston who ascends to the command of the newly formed 8th Army Corps.

  • The 26th Ohio was part of the First brigade, First division, 21st army corps.

  • But shortly after the arrival of Sir Redvers Buller's Army Corps it began to be evident that the Boer forces were balanced by the British.

  • Fifty thousand men were ordered out on October 7th,--an Army Corps, a cavalry division and troops for the line of communications.

  • The Cabinet's decisions involved that Sir George White with his small force should have to bear the brunt of the Boer attack from the outbreak of hostilities until the time when the Army Corps should be landed and ready to move.

  • These units are distributed to army corps, divisions and districts, in the same way as units of other arms (see ARMY).

  • In a country in which universal service prevails, an army corps district is divided into divisional districts, these being made up of brigade and of regimental districts.

  • The Fourth Division was placed under the orders of the general officer commanding the Second Army Corps.

  • Here is one case of my personal knowledge: A German Boy Scout of 16, who had learned to speak French and English perfectly at school, volunteered his services and was attached to the staff of an army corps.

  • Whoever, like myself, has for any length of time stood at the front or partly at the front and partly as spectator has been present at many imperial manoeuvres knows what such a parade means to an army corps.

  • I said that my career had been spent among my men and at Fighting Headquarters, that during the war I had commanded a division and an army corps, and that I was very anxious to continue this work at the front.

  • One of these days I shall go back to my army corps.

  • When the roads were very bad and conditions made it feasible, an army corps remained at rest in camp for a day avoiding the overcrowding of the road.

  • Heintzelman, a native of Pennsylvania who during the Civil War commanded an army corps in the army of the Potomac, and became a major general.

  • No doubt they over-estimated our numbers and thought we were an army corps instead of two weak brigades.


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