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Example sentences for "regular army"

  • I do not find that any one, even in debate, goes the length of denying that the king might, by his prerogative, maintain a regular army; none at least of the resolutions in the Commons can be said to have that effect.

  • We can muster more than thirty thousand men organized as a regular army.

  • The Confederacy really profited by having no regular army.

  • He too had been a regular army officer, but of the younger class.

  • Colonel True was a regular army man of long standing who was being transferred from another division to the Twenty-Seventh.

  • In Dijon there was a group, Major Jacob Jablons, Medical Corps; Miss Bessie Spanner, a regular army nurse; and Sergeant J.

  • Dundee made one attempt, soon after the gathering of the clans in Lochaber, to induce them to submit to the discipline of a regular army.

  • Forty fine regiments, a regular army such as had never before marched to battle under the royal standard of England, had retreated precipitately before an invader, and had then, without a struggle, submitted to him.

  • So far as Congress could control the matter, there was no regular army in 1784.

  • He must enforce rigid discipline, and must do it without resorting to regular army methods of punishment.

  • The National Guard is not only the reserve for the regular army; it is also the reserve for the police, the fire department, and life-saving service.

  • In June, 1911, the War Department detailed a regular army officer to the Corps as Inspector-instructor, Capt.

  • No country could present greater difficulties to the movements of a regular army or lend itself more readily to a system of guerrilla warfare.

  • When the day arrived on which he had ordered me to attend, then he came with a regular army in battle array to the temple of Concord, and out of his impure mouth vomited forth an oration against me in my absence.

  • On a sudden he hastened to Brundusium, in order to come against this city from thence with a regular army.

  • Lepidus was in the suburbs of Rome with a regular army, ready to depart for the government of Spain, which had been assigned to him with a part of Gaul.

  • But this concentration of forces, even with a regular army, cannot be calculated on by the general with any degree of certainty, unless his communications are perfectly secure.

  • As a general rule, the militia are individually more capable and intelligent than the men who compose a regular army.

  • New and undisciplined forces are often confounded at the evolutions, and strategic and tactical combinations of a regular army, and lose all confidence in their leaders and in themselves.

  • Whether a regular army is to be raised, and to what extent, must depend on the information so shortly expected.

  • There never has been any other large nation, not even China, which for so long a period has had relatively to its numbers so small a regular army as has ours.

  • Freed from the shackles of military routine that enslaved the Spanish officers, he astonished them by forced marches over roads previously deemed impracticable to a regular army.

  • Hannibal also, sending band after band, as the contest increased, as aids to his men when distressed, had now completed a regular army, and a battle was fought with the entire strength of both sides.

  • Sergeant C 13th Infantry Also in Ohio Infantry, and staff officer in Regular Army.

  • However, since the Militia generally did not start adopting Regular Army devices until the 1820's it seems probable that this cockade was an item of Regular Army issue, despite the lack of evidence of specific authorization.

  • The cap is a copy of the 1812 Regular Army pattern, with somewhat more ornate brass bindings in place of the iron strips.

  • It is extremely difficult to determine whether cockade eagles are of Regular Army or Militia origin, and to date them if the latter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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