How To Use skirmisher In A Sentence
- These men were a kind of skirmishers for the main body, which could be seen some distance behind. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
- The brave Negro troops went forward at a double-quick; the skirmishers were the first to reach the embankments, and were greeted with a shower of bullets which tumbled many headlong and lifeless into the pits. A School History of the Negro Race in America, from 1619 to 1890, With a Short Introduction as to the Origin of the Race; Also a Short Sketch of Liberia.
- Island, and the carbineer company of our regiment, were thrown out as skirmishers. History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R.I. Volunteers, during the Spring and Summer of 1861
- A correspondent from General Sherman's army says that the Whitworth rifle in use by the Southern skirmishers and sharpshooters is a weapon greatly to be feared, as persons nearly a mile and a half from the Foreign and Colonial Intelligence
- Hardee's men collided with Federal skirmishers before daylight, and the Confederates soon struck three Union divisions without fieldworks under Brig.
- And among the skirmishers were the Rifles, the men of the Ninety-fifth. Beyond the Sunrise
- Quickly following Miller in the charge came the infantrymen and Winters's dismounted cavalry moving as skirmishers.
- The incident illustrated on the first page is where the riflemen are advancing their skirmishers through the undergrowth towards the Confederate gum, while other Federal regiments are making a flanking movement by a detour on each side to clear the pine woods. Illustrations of the Civil War in America
- Unless you have units fighting in formation, skirmishers which is what most characters in D&D are will move around a room quite a bit. Abstract Combat
- While "bivouacking" a little behind this hill the enemy's skirmishers a little after dark made quite a determined onset on our Reminiscences of a soldier of the Orphan brigade,
