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exploring in order to gain information
scouting in enemy territory is very dangerous
How To Use reconnoitering In A Sentence
- Owing to these qualities they are utilised for prolonged and searching reconnoitring duties such as strategical reconnaissances as distinct from the hurried and tactical reconnaissances carried out by fleeter machines. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
- Edwin, who, with Grimsby, had volunteered the dangerous service of reconnoitering the enemy, returned within an hour, bringing in a straggler from the English camp. The Scottish Chiefs
- He planned to raid it now, reconnoitring with a patrol of five men. KARA KUSH
- March 25th, 1945 saw members reconnoitering the beaches at the southwest tip of Tokashika Shima, a dangerous job as the landing beach was in a cove surrounded by easily defensible high ground.
- Edwin, who with Grimsby had volunteered the dangerous service of reconnoitring the enemy, returned within an hour, bringing in a straggler from the English camp. The Scottish Chiefs
- If so, perhaps they were reconnoitering the nation's capital prior to an attack.
- Early in the war Allied planners realized the value of scouts for reconnoitering enemy-held beaches.
- The Confederacy's greatest soldier, General Stonewall Jackson, was shot dead by his own troops as he returned to his lines after reconnoitring Union positions during the battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863.
- For all any Union unit on the hills around Gettysburg knew, or any cavalry unit like this one out reconnoitering knew, the battle might go on for days more.
- Early in the war Allied planners realized the value of scouts for reconnoitering enemy-held beaches.