Unlike Colin Campbell, who was in the thick of the fight within a few months of joining his regiment, it was some years before Havelock had a chance of distinguishing himself; but meantime he set to work to study military history and tactics both ancient and modern.

2. Near the close of the rebellion, Miss DICKINSON wrote to JEFF DAVIS that she was going to raise a regiment and go for him.

I commanded a regiment under king William, and have long been either the first, or almost the first man in the army.

" General Merritt, seeing that he could not now ambush the Indians, ordered the whole regiment to charge upon them.

Arrayed after these suggestions, Esmeralda, you will be inconspicuous, and that is the general aim of the true lady's riding dress, with the exception of those worn by German princesses, when, at a review, they lead the regiments which they command.

In May, 1852, Sir John Pakington replied, promising six companies of the Fifty-ninth Regiment from China, but subsequently decided to send a whole regiment direct from England.

This, however, he objected to; and after a stay at Bombay he was sufficiently restored to rejoin his regiment.

A rapid march brought reserve regiments of a division of the 5th Corps into Vigneulles in the early morning, where it linked up with patrols of our 4th Corps, closing the salient and forming a new line west of Thiaucourt to Vigneulles and beyond Fresnes-en-Woevre.

I'm just about leaving the regiment.

Relieved of these obstinate enemies, Alexander again formed his regiments of horse-guards, and led them toward Parmenio; but by this time that general also was victorious.

"I am sent for the colonel of the th dragoons," said a courier in broken English to a soldier, near where the earl lay on the ground, waiting the preparations of his attendants "have I found the right regiment, my friend?"

" "Here's to the health of His Majesty's gallant regiment of foot!" cried Captain Digby, in a tone of irony, when three-quarters drunk, at the mess-table, that evening, "and to its champion, Captain Henry Jarvis!" One of the corps was present accidentally as a guest; and the following week, the inhabitants of F saw the regiment in their barracks, marching to slow time after the body of Horace Digby.

Anyhow, the two pursuing armored cars didn't dare come near enough to be dangerous until we had followed the retreating Arab regiments for about a mile, and the Algerians appeared over the hill-top, coming very slowly.

" Robert Willoughby would not have looked at Maud, at that moment, to have been given a regiment; as for Maud, herself, she was utterly incapable of raising her eyes from the floor.

"How are the men, Captain Foley?" "Never better, sir," answered the senior captain, in the spirit that makes a Madras officer look murder if you suggest recruiting his regiment from the Punjab.

As we entered Kelát we passed a regiment at drill on a sandy plain outside the walls.

But suppose you are asked your regiment, and give an appropriate answer, and then are asked for your captain's namewhat can you say? I beat off the fearful suggestion.

After a long and sanguinary struggle, Fleetwood effected a passage just at the moment when Cromwell, having completed the work, moved four regiments to his assistance.

One day great news aroused the camp: the Governor was to review the regiment and send it to the front.

I trust you will do us justice, siryou know the regiments, and can scarce think they misbehaved.

Factory and field and forge all have been stripped to fill the Scottish regiments and keep them at their full strength.

As we paused to see if the shot was a chance one, or if the Russian gunners had actually gotten the range, a regiment of fresh reserves, young men who had just come up from the west, passed us on their way to get their baptism of fire.

The people of this province were so bitter against home rule that they actually imported rifles and drilled regiments, saying that they would start a civil war if England compelled them to be governed by an Irish parliament.

At the outbreak of the war Minnesota was required to furnish one regiment, but so intensely patriotic were its citizens that nearly two regiments volunteered at the first call of the president.

Next to Craterus' infantry were placed the cavalry regiments of the allies, with Eriguius for their general.