Commando Sentence Examples

There was little fighting, but the commando carried off between two and three hundred native women and children - some of whom were redeemed by their friends, and some escaped, while many of the children were apprenticed to farmers.

During the year a Boer commando under Paul Kruger and an army under Cetywayo were posted along the Utrecht border.

Viljoen's commando, with which Pretorius was in sympathy, was known as the Volksleger, or Army of the People.

A commando was called out, which the president himself led.

Each field-cornet, who, with the commandant, was a paid official of the state, was responsible for the arms, equipment and attendance of his commando.

As a Commando squad, players are tasked with infiltrating underground catacombs, sabotaging the separatists and even attempting assassination.

You can even go commando underneath without anyone knowing!

The Royal Marine Commando Display Team will be bringing its state-of-the-art simulators, with climbing walls suitable for all skill levels.

She was ' Commando crawling ', she could n't crawl on all fours, she would shuffle along on her hands.

Republic Commando - a vaguely tactical first-person shooter - is one such expansion of that Universe.

You play as either a Reconnaissance Marine or a British SAS commando with locations including Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and the Middle East.

First, you play Jack Carver, a retired Navy commando giving an exploration tour of an obscure island with well-to-do tourists (hidden dinosaur island in Jurassic Park).

You play as Nick Parker, a GDI commando.

Among the scenes pictured are those from Duck Hunt, ExciteBike, and Bionic Commando, all from the original NES.

Colonel Dovchenko is the leader of Spalko's commando squad.

Along with the Colonel, Russian commando figures are available for children to play with.

Commando Santa - If you're looking for a lighter holidau greeting, Commando Santa is tattooed with the Marine emblem and ready to take on the holidays.

Well-known lingerie brand Commando has won awards for hosiery and holds a patent on a weighted slip hemline that will eliminate the possibility of suffering from a fashion faux pas due to an unfortunate slip incident.

Wear sheer briefs when you want to go commando, but you don't want the risk of showing people the goods when you sit down in shorts.

He seeks attention but wants to appear modest enough to skip the commando look and feel (not to mention support!).

The only thing better than going commando is buying Commando.

Commando is a particular lingerie brand that remains dedicated to obliterating the presence of lingerie lines.

If you want panties without panty lines, check out the Commando Girl Short that combines nylon and spandex with unfinished edges to create an invisible undergarment.

Both Commando and Cosabella have managed to create imperceptible undergarments simply because they understand that the feel of "barely there" is best represented by lingerie that is, in all actuality, barely there.

Warden led against the Basuto a commando composed of British soldiers, farmers and a native contingent.

This commando was defeated at Viervoet, near Thaba Nchu, by the Basuto, who thereafter raided and plundered the natives opposed to them and the farmers who had helped the British.

Returning south, Pretorius and his commando were surprised to learn that Port Natal had been occupied on the 4th of December by a detachment of the 72nd Highlanders sent thither from the Cape.

This feeling was, however, changed by what Sir George (and many of the Dutch in Natal also) thought a wilful and unjustifiable attack (December 1840) on a tribe of Kaffirs on the southern, or Cape Colony, frontier by a commando under Andries Pretorius, which set out, nominally, to recover stolen cattle.

The Boers, cut off from their port, called out a commando of some 300 to 400 men under Andries Pretorius and gathered at Congella at the head of the bay.

This act led to reprisals, and on the 17th of January 1837 a Boer commando surprised Mosilikatze's encampment at Mosega, inflicting heavy loss on the Matabele without themselves 1 Two small children were spared and brought up as Kaffirs.

A Zulu kraal having been raided, the Zulu retaliated and, surrounding a small Boer commando, succeeded in killing every member of it.

At a later date (1865) the Boers tried to raise taxes from the Barolong, but without success, a commando sent against them in 1868 being driven off by Montsioa's brother Molema.

In 1900, Bloemfontein and Pretoria having been occupied by British troops, Kruger, too old to go on commando, with the consent of his executive proceeded to Europe, where he endeavoured to induce the European powers to intervene on his behalf, but without success.

On the 11th of December 1834 a chief of high rank was killed while resisting a commando party.

Commando troops, as the British commando troops, as the British commando, were a branch of the armed forces.

Star Wars Republic Commando is a squad-based first-person shooter that lets you explore the elite world of the Star Wars military.

Peaceful overtures having failed, Pretorius and Paul Kruger placed themselves at the head of a commando which crossed the Vaal with the object of enforcing union, but the Free State compelled their withof drawal (see Orange Free State).

With the Navy commando credo, "Never leave a man behind" repeatedly playing in his head, he sets out to rescue the sole survivor and get off the island.

You continue your role as the Cyborg commando known as the Master Chief.

Sechele was regarded by the Boers as owing them allegiance, and in August 1852 Pretorius sent against him a commando (in which Paul Kruger served as a field cornet), alleging that the Bakwena were harbouring a Bakatla chief who had looted cattle belonging to Boer farmers.

General Botha stated that there were 83,000 burghers from 15 to 65 years of age on the commando lists.