How To Use Skirmisher In A Sentence
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These men were a kind of skirmishers for the main body, which could be seen some distance behind.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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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.
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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
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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
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Hardee's men collided with Federal skirmishers before daylight, and the Confederates soon struck three Union divisions without fieldworks under Brig.
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And among the skirmishers were the Rifles, the men of the Ninety-fifth.
Beyond the Sunrise
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Quickly following Miller in the charge came the infantrymen and Winters's dismounted cavalry moving as skirmishers.
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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
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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
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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,
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Troop selections: Light - medium infantry, assault infantry, pikemen, bowmen, light - medium melee and skirmisher cavalry.
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A whistle sounded ahead, calling the skirmishers back to the British battalion's other nine companies.
Sharpe's Prey
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When cavalry is required to charge over unknown ground, it should be preceded by a few men thrown out to the front as skirmishers, in order to _scout the ground_ to be passed over.
A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry
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There is a fearless advance, and your skirmishers are your forlorn hope.
Battle Studies
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The 2d Rhode Island, which was at the head of the column, was now ordered to send out skirmishers; also the carbineer company, Captain
History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R.I. Volunteers, during the Spring and Summer of 1861
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It was evidently twittingly said to encourage the volunteers, whom they held in no very high esteem, for at that time their rear skirmishers were actually engaged.
Behind AotW
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At which point the traditional antinomies of lyric and epic may be invoked only as skirmishers in the move from the discrete poem to the interconnected book.
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These highly mobile skirmishers can be used to draw Goblin fanatics out of their units prior to a charge by more heavily armed troops.
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These highly mobile skirmishers can be used to draw Goblin fanatics out of their units prior to a charge by more heavily armed troops.
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Troop selections: Light - medium infantry, assault infantry, pikemen, bowmen, light - medium melee and skirmisher cavalry.
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What happened was that the havildar-major came along the rank, with two naiks carrying big bags of cartridges, of which he offered three to each skirmisher.
Fiancée
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Building on the tactics of skirmishers, open-order tactics possessed only loose tactical formations.
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The first two hundred yards of the Sacramento Sector passed without incident, then one of the skirmishers sighted a tumblebug parked by a rotor.
The Past Through Tomorrow
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The first vexillum was followed by the triarii, veterans of proved courage; the second by the rorarii, or "skirmishers," younger men and less distinguished; the third by the accensi, who were least to be depended upon, and were therefore placed in the rearmost line.
The History of Rome, Vol. II
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These lightly armoured skirmishers , drawn from the peasantry, are armed with javelins which they hurl at their foes to weaken their enemies and break up formations.
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But the battle was decided in the centre where the Carthaginian skirmishers out-diced the velites then their larger foot units prevailed over the smaller, but better Roman units.
Archive 2008-09-01
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The first and tenth companies were armed with rifles, and were styled and used as "skirmishers;" but during 'the war they were never used exclusively for that special purpose, and in fact no distinction existed between them and the other eight companies.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
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The skirmishers of both armies are continually "potting" at each other from behind the rocks, though without much damage.
The Great Falls of the Potomac
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Only during the night... the picket lines being close together, the firing of the skirmishers caused frequent alarms.
