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Example sentences for "four companies"

  • This was composed of two troops of horse artillery and a siege-train manned by four companies of English gunners.

  • Four companies of this fine corps were here, and although the ranks were made up by drafts from many other corps, the men had wonderfully soon assumed the peculiarly smart bearing of their new corps.

  • This regiment, a very large and splendid one (three battalions, four companies each), was thus kept in line to participate in the impending conflict.

  • Headquarters and four companies were quartered in the old Parliament buildings, four companies in King Street barracks.

  • Sidenote: 21st] Colonel Barnard joined the Division with four companies of the 3rd Battalion Rifles; these men had been with the army stationed in Cadiz.

  • Four companies of Rifle Men marched to Espeja and four into Gallegos; these villages are about a league apart and three from Ciudad Rodrigo.

  • Have battalions of four companies of one hundred men each, which is certainly quite sufficient considering the power of destruction which these four companies place in the hands of one man.

  • To start with: take battalions of four companies, four platoons each, in line or in column.

  • With the Second on the left and the Third on the right of the road, the front covered by four companies deployed as skirmishers, under Captain Cuthbert, and two companies under Maj.

  • The attacking column was led by four companies of the Seventh Connecticut, Lieutenant-Colonel Rodman, followed by the Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania and the Ninth Maine.

  • One commissioned officer to four companies of these veteran Indian-fighters made as reliable a battalion as any general could wish for in the conditions then existing.

  • It is occupied by four companies of infantry.

  • Next to these came two 7-pounder and one 9-pounder guns; four companies of the 58th completed the line on this side.

  • The working party was divided into four companies of 100 men each, and they worked on during the night with such good will, that before morning No.

  • They were similarly pursued further towards our right by four companies of the 41st, led gallantly by Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable P.

  • Jacson's companies were reinforced by four companies of the Gordon Highlanders and the 60th Rifles, and at 4 p.

  • The infantry of the advance guard was composed of four companies of the Regiment under Captain Jacson.

  • As soon as it was dark, four companies of the Regiment were left on Devon Kopje as an advanced post, whilst the remainder of the Regiment retired to the rear of the hill and bivouacked.

  • Fort Rice, on the upper Missouri, well fortified and garrisoned by four companies of infantry with artillery.

  • In 1829 four companies of the sixth infantry, under Major Riley, were on duty.

  • Consolidated into a battalion of four companies September, 1865, of one year men.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    four cases; four cloves; four different; four divisions; four fathoms; four feet; four horses; four lines; four men; four miles; four millions; four pairs; four pieces; four points; four sides; four slices; four tablespoons; four thousand four hundred; four ways; four weeks; four winds; four yards; fourth century; fourth month; fourth part; port towns