21 Verbs to Use for the Word skirmishers

Keep pressing forward to support the skirmishers."

We formed in line, sending out skirmishers, the guns opened firethe country here being pretty openand the action began.

When deployed us skirmishers, the men march at ease, pieces at the trail unless otherwise ordered.

Here and there in the wheat lay dead skirmishers, and guns, and many signs of battle.

The best kind of cover is that which, while it masks the skirmishers from the sight and fire of the enemy, affords favorable conditions for firing and for readily advancing.

I got a scolding from the General for outflanking the skirmishers, which I did to get out of the dust.

It came on and passed over the skirmishers.

he fiercely breathed, and pointed just ahead: "The enemy's skirmishers!" "Come away!"

The French had pushed their skirmishers past the farm, and they lay among the young corn in front of us popping at the gunners, so that three pieces out of six on our left were lying with their men strewed in the mud all round them.

We should have withdrawn at once, but waited until the line of battle had reached the skirmishers before we were ordered to fall back.

THE BATTLE AT CRECY A graphic picture of the fight in Crecy wood was given by a correspondent who said: The French and English in overwhelming numbers had poured in from Lagny toward the River Marne to reinforce the flanking skirmishers.

"Jones," said he, "Company A will not move to-night, but the other companies will relieve the skirmishers at daybreak.

The enemy brought out some guns by the Kashmir Gate and shelled the Metcalfe pickets, their skirmishers advancing close to our defences with shouts, and harassing the men day and night, though with small loss on our side.

I thought it likely that the brigade advancing had taken the skirmishers into its ranks.

" The danger had become great; perhaps there was but one Whitworth over there, but the marksman would at once tell the skirmishers where we were posted; then we should be a target for their whole line, and at three hundred yards their Enfields could riddle our sand-bags and make us lie low.

The village of Goathland has thrown out skirmishers towards the heather in the form of an ancient-looking but quite modern church, with a low central tower, and a little hotel, stone-built and fitting well into its surroundings.

Gathering the details of a battle in the midst of its dangers; sharing the privations of the camp and the fatigues of the march; riding with scouts, and visiting the skirmishers on the extreme front; journeying to the rear through regions infested by the enemy's cavalry, or running the gauntlet of Rebel batteries, his life was far from monotonous.

"Naynayfar from it, Mir Saheb," replied I. "The sentry of talk challenges the approaching skirmishers of sleep.

It was at that word that Kincaid's horse went down; but while the pieces trotted round and unlimbered and the Federal guns vomited their fire point-blank and blue skirmishers crackled and the gray line crackled back, and while lead and iron whined and whistled, and chips, sand and splinters flew, and a dozen boys dropped, the steady voice of Bartleson gave directions to each piece by number, for "solid shot," or "case" or "double canister."

He retires with the first squad across the field, directing the skirmishers to hold the ground until they hear three musket-shots from the wood behind.

The brigade was behind us, waiting for us to dislodge the skirmishers.

21 Verbs to Use for the Word  skirmishers