Then, too, the rest of my command, already worn down by the exhausting marches and operations beginning on the 9th, had been seriously broken in upon by heavy outpost duty and drenching rains, which latter had made their camp a veritable mud-hole.

In the early hours of October 27 he did make an attempt to interfere with our concentration, and there was a spirited little action on our outpost line which had been pushed out beyond the plain to a line of low hills near the wadi Hanafish.

He had delivered thirteen costly attacks, and his sole gains were the exposed outpost positions at the Tawil and the quarries.

Necessary, outpost folk, hirelings of our wrath.

From a wood-hung height, an outpost lone, Crowned with a woodman's fort, The sentinel looks on a land of dole, Like Paran, all amort.

Outpost patrols are divided into those which operate beyond the lines and those whose duty lies principally within the lines.

A recumbent comrade of the outpost sentry group sniggered.

Directly north were the forted villages of the Watauga pioneers, in the valley of the upper Tennessee, and beyond these again, in the same valley, the Virginian outpost settlements.

I have seen more soldierly work in outpost skirmishes and little gallop-and-hack affairs of the kind than in any of the Emperor's big battles.

The writing of them followed close on an automobile trip to Liege, through a district blasted by war and corrugated with long trenches where those who died with their boots on still lie with their boots on. Let me, if I can, draw two picturesone of this German outpost town, and the other of the things that might be seen four or five miles distant over the border.

The vigilance of outpost troops must be unceasing, but they should avoid bringing on combats or unnecessarily alarming the command.

But he penetrated no further than Anatolikònthe Mesolonghiots' outpost village at the head of the lagoonsand the campaign was only memorable for the heroic death of Marko Botzaris the Suliot in a night attack upon the Ottoman camp.

In this war four large fleets had perished, three of them with Roman armies on board; a fourth select land army had been destroyed by the enemy in Libya; to say nothing of the numerous losses which had been occasioned by the minor naval engagements, and by the battles, and still more by the outpost warfare and the diseases, of Sicily.

Scarcely a more striking proof exists of the misery and lowness of Rome during many generations in the Dark Ages than that she should thus have forgotten the very sites of the churches which had stood around her walls, the outpost citadels of her faith.

The staff believed that Tyler would be cashiered, for he had not only wrecked the general's plan of battle, but he had given the rebels the secret of the movement and demoralized one wing of the army by putting raw soldiers in front of masked batteries that could have been detected by proper outpost work.

After the main body had crossed the bridge was blown up, leaving the two outpost companies to get across as best they could by boats or swimming.

It was known one morning in the trenches at Pervyse that several of their comrades in the farm had been injured in an outpost engagement.