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Example sentences for "received orders"

  • During the night, however, we heard enough to assure us that things were going well, and early on the 5th we received orders to leave the redoubts to a garrison of the unfit and to rendezvous in the old camp, prepared for a "mobile.

  • The following day we received orders to relieve the 7th H.

  • After about a week in camp on the west side of the Canal we received orders to move to the other bank and relieve the 31st Division, who at that time were occupying the canal defences.

  • In the course of January General Ferino, then commanding at Grenoble, received orders to put the young emigrant on his trial.

  • Mortier, therefore, received orders to reduce the conditions of the capitulation to the surrender of the arms, baggage, artillery, and horses.

  • Impossible as this was, as soon as the Code Napoleon way promulgated I received orders to establish it in the Hanse Towns.

  • The postmaster was ordered to keep the letters until he received orders to forward them to their destinations.

  • I received orders also to send ammunition by wagon out to these men.

  • I received orders to hold on vigorously, that I would be reinforced by Colonel Guthrie's command, and that Colonel Rodgers' men would certainly join me before six o'clock in the morning.

  • We then went back to city hall, to the mayor's office, and were quartered there until the afternoon, when I received orders to report to my colonel.

  • I think we received orders to move down there about six o'clock.

  • In the spring we received orders to hold ourselves in readiness to embark for Dublin.

  • We received orders to be in readiness to proceed to Toronto, relieving the 47th Regiment, and were to have another trip on the Duncan.

  • We received orders to proceed to Shorncliffe Camp in the county of Kent, a few miles from Folkstone.

  • In July one year of my service was completed, and we received orders to be held in readiness to proceed to Aldershot.

  • On the evening of the 20th we received orders to leave all our tents and baggage; subsequently the order to take all was given, and we mounted at 3 o'clock next morning, stopping at eight to roll our cloaks.

  • On the 2nd February we received orders to prepare for an advance on Cabul.

  • After the battle of Eylau, and while at Warsaw, he received orders to have a monument erected in commemoration of the day.

  • Some of his Ministers, his sister, Murat, and the Prince de Neufchâtel, received orders to invite a certain number of persons belonging to the Court or to the city.

  • He desired to establish a similar custom in France, and we received orders to prepare for this new “etiquette.

  • Guns were unlimbered and shell pits dug, while the wagons were all placed under cover; we received orders on arrival for immediate action, and at 9.

  • A move at last, and I received orders to join General Hildyard's Brigade with my two guns, while the others were attached to other Columns.

  • On the way to Béthune we were evidently coming into touch with the enemy, for I received orders to detach two companies (Cheshires) to our right flank at Fonquières Verquin to support the French.

  • Just when we were moving off I received orders to move the other way, but with the sanction of the Divisional Staff I preferred going my own way, and went it.

  • Having been told we should be here for at least a day to rest, we received orders, I need hardly say, at 7 next morning, to be ready to move immediately.

  • In the midst of our joy, and throwing up of hats, we received orders to fall in, and were soon on our way after Johnston.

  • Some time after this, I received orders to report at Camp Convalescent, Alexandria.

  • A few days after Burnside got stuck in the mud, we received orders to pack up; this was good news for us; we felt sure we could get into no worse place than this mud-hole.

  • About midnight we received orders to turn out--the rebels were upon us.

  • Early in the forenoon, Colonel Frederick, who has regained his health and is now with the regiment, received orders to establish his regiment in camp.

  • After resting four days at Louisville, the regiment, on the morning of the 1st of October, received orders to pack up and be ready to move out at ten o'clock.

  • Hall, received orders to break up camp, and move his train to Iuka, Miss.

  • He proposed to halt for the night; but suddenly a patrol from a column sent out by White to help him in appeared, and he received orders to press forward to Ladysmith.

  • When Cunningham reached Krugersdorp he received orders to tackle Smuts.

  • He received orders to act in the Hekpoort Valley, while Broadwood acted north of the Magaliesberg.

  • The 35th Division was now being relieved by the First Division, and we received orders that we had been temporarily attached to that division until their own Ambulance and Field Hospitals could get into action.

  • A short time after he had started trying to put this idea into effect, we received orders to retire.

  • We learned that the division was billeted a few miles south and the next morning we received orders to move to Eloyes at two P.

  • June the 1st we received orders to put ourselves in light marching condition, and hold ourselves in readiness to march at short notice.

  • The evening of June 4th we received orders to be in readiness to march the following morning, at half-past four, each man to be provided with sixty rounds of ammunition, and eight days' rations.

  • May 22d, at nine in the evening, we received orders to march.

  • The Letter proceeds, 'Upon which, I Admiral de Fonte, received Orders from Spain and the Viceroys to equip four Ships of Force.

  • But from the Viceroys he received Orders only as to the Equipment of the four Ships, as Orders of that Nature would regularly proceed from them.

  • On their return to Zanzibar, the Opal and Gauntlet received orders to proceed to the Cape.

  • The non-combatants, women and children, received orders to take themselves off with such of their personal property as they could carry, an act of leniency which surprised them not a little.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acting upon; been through; being here; broken down; different regions; fast asleep; geographic range; highly educated; little powdered; make over; public building; received from; received his early education; received intelligence; received orders; received sentence; received the; received the following letter; received them; received yesterday; run the; shortly before; smooth paste; strong holds; taught them; the right