Hussars Sentence Examples

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  • He hoped to see further service, but the queen was opposed to this, and he was removed from the navy, and given the honorary post of colonel-general of hussars.

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  • In the Crimean War Baker was present at the action of Traktir (or Tchernaya) and at the fall of Sevastopol, and in 1859 he became major in the 10th Hussars, succeeding only a year later to the command.

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  • Pentelemon, its chief exponent being Antony Bulatovich, an ex-officer of the Hussars of the Guard, who had become a monk at St.

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  • He became captain in 1871, and, transferred to the 7th Hussars in 1874, was promoted major in 1875, and returned to the Rifle Brigade as lieutenantcolonel in September 1876.

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  • The cavalry consisted of the famous Hussars, or light horse, of which he may be said to have been the creator, and the heavily armed mounted musketeers on the Czech-German model.

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  • It was commanded by Prince Alexander of Hesse; the 1st division (3 infantry brigades, i cavalry brigade, 6 batteries) came from Wurttemberg; the 2nd division (2 infantry and I cavalry brigades, 5 batteries) from Baden, the least anti-Prussian of all these states; the 3rd division (2 infantry and i cavalry brigades, i rifle battalion, 4 batteries) from Hesse-Darmstadt; the 4th division consisted of an Austrian brigade of 7 battalions (three of which were Italians), a Nassau brigade, and two batteries and some hussars of Hesse-Cassel.

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  • In the dust and confusion of the charge a group of the hussars approached Bazaine and his horse artillery battery, and almost carried off the marshal.

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  • Towards the end of the day Colonel Vallin's Hussars stormed the Limale bridge, and a large part of Grouchy's force then promptly gained the left bank.

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  • He was cordially received by Louis XVIII.; his military rank was confirmed, he was named colonel-general of hussars, and such of the vast Orleans estates as had not been sold were restored to him by royal ordinance.

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  • The cavalry is organized in regiments of cuirassiers, dragoons, lancers, hussars and mounted rifles,2 the regiments having four service and one depot squadrons.

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  • The infantry is organized into line regiments, JÃger and Tirolese regiments, the cavalry into dragoons, lancers, Uhlans and hussars, the artillery into regiments.

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  • The Austrian Landwehr (which retains the old designation K.K., formerly applied to the Austrian regular army) is organized in 8 divisions of varying strength, the " Royal Hungarian " Landwehr or Honveds in 7 divisions, both Austrian and Hungarian Landwehr having in addition cavalry (Uhlans and hussars) and artillery.

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  • At Custozza Magyar hussars, Croats from the Military Frontier, and Tirolese sharpshooters had fought side by side.

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  • Scarlett, was in the Balaklava plain; the other, the Light Brigade under Lord Cardigan (4th and 13th Light Dragoons now Hussars, 8th and 11th Hussars and 17th Lancers) in the valley to the north of the Vorontsov ridge.

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  • The situatioh on the 27th tempted attack by an enterprising enemy, and Major-General Grahams force, consisting of a squadron of the r9th Hussars, the York and Lancaster Regiment, the duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry, the Marine Artillery Battalion and two R.H.A.

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  • This grand feat of arms was marked by many points of interest, such as the capture of the Dutch ships, which were frozen in the Helder, by the French hussars, and the splendid discipline of the ragged battalions in Amsterdam, who, with the richest city of the continent to sack, yet behaved with a self-restraint which few revolutionary and Napoleonic armies attained.

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  • He was captain in the King's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, and a temporary lieutenant-colonel in the army.

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  • In 1817 he became major-general and commander of the brigade of hussars.

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  • Hussars charged the crowd with drawn swords.

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  • Miinnich had at least dissipated the illusion of Ottoman invincibility, and taught the Russian soldier that 100,000 janissaries and spahis were no match, in a fair field, for half that number of grenadiers and hussars.

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  • His conduct on this occasion (he captured five guns at the head of a single squadron) won him further promotion, and he made the remaining campaigns as a major-general at the head of the Hussar brigade (7th, 10th and 15th Hussars).

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  • On the 28th of April 1799 the plenipotentiaries on leaving Rastadt were assailed at the gates of the town by Hungarian hussars, probably charged to secure their papers.

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  • He dedicated it to Field-Marshall Radetsky, and it later became the march-past of a crack Austrian cavalry corps named the Radetsky Hussars.

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  • The Bays were now relieved by the 10th hussars and withdrew to Montalbano for a short rest.

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  • He joined the 11th hussars in 1852 and on 29th June 1858 was promoted to Major.

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  • One Sqn 7th hussars let about 25 Boers under Field Cornet Charlie?

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  • Features Captain Manners C Wood, 10th hussars being saved by Lt Fisher, 10th Hussars.

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  • A regular officer with the 11th hussars, he left the Army to write.

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  • The others were 11th and 8th hussars, and the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons.

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  • Thanks very much, webmaster@nmbva.co.uk Hello, I am looking to find any ex 4th hussars that served in Malaya from 1948 to 1951.

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  • The only cavalry representative was Thomas Wilfred Saul of the 15 th hussars.

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  • A squadron of Hussars and thirty polish lancers were all whom I chose for the venture.

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  • In 1895, Churchill was appointed a second lieutenant in the 4th Hussars, a proud cavalry regiment.

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  • The infantry is organized into line regiments, JÃger and Tirolese regiments, the cavalry into dragoons, lancers, Uhlans and hussars, the artillery into regiments.

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  • The choice fell upon Sieyes, who had kept aloof from office and retained not only his immeasurable self-conceit but the respect of the public. Sieyes felt that anything, broke up in April and the French envoys were murdered by Austrian hussars.

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  • He's joining the hussars.

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  • Schubert, the colonel of the Pavlograd Hussars, is dining with us today.

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  • At the ladies' end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the men's end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests.

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  • Zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and zere's an end of it!

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  • The Pavlograd Hussars were stationed two miles from Braunau.

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  • The hussars began carefully aligning their horses.

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  • Evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell somewhere beyond them.

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  • Zherkov was followed by an officer of the suite who rode up to the colonel of hussars with the same order.

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  • He was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid that his heart stood still.

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  • Rostov saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs catching and their sabers clattering.

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  • These were the questions each man of the troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself with a sinking heart--watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with their bayonets and guns.

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  • The French had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars got back to their horses.

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  • Two were misdirected and the shot went too high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and knocked three of them over.

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  • The hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight.

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  • But our left--which consisted of the Azov and Podolsk infantry and the Pavlograd hussars--was simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under Lannes and was thrown into confusion.

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  • It was no longer possible for the hussars to retreat with the infantry.

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  • The troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this irresolution communicated itself to the men.

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  • Before him, on the right, Rostov saw the front lines of his hussars and still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but took to be the enemy.

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  • Instead of the moving horses and hussars' backs, he saw nothing before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him.

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  • He had not seen the hussars all that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer.

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  • The Tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided.

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  • Rostov saw the Cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then Generals Bagration and Dolgorukov ride past with their adjutants.

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  • The Emperor! was suddenly heard among the hussars.

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  • Before he came up with the hussars, several adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action.

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  • The hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts.

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  • His hussars were placed along the line in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the sleepiness that kept coming over him.

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  • He readjusted himself in the saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars.

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  • Shall I go with some of my hussars to see? replied Rostov.

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  • Rostov spurred his horse, called to Sergeant Fedchenko and two other hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction from which the shouting came.

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  • On his return to Moscow from the army, Nicholas Rostov was welcomed by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling Nikolenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good dancer, and one of the best matches in the city.

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  • Despite their pale swollen faces and tattered uniforms, the hussars formed line for roll call, kept things in order, groomed their horses, polished their arms, brought in straw from the thatched roofs in place of fodder, and sat down to dine round the caldrons from which they rose up hungry, joking about their nasty food and their hunger.

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  • In the middle of the game, the officers saw some wagons approaching with fifteen hussars on their skinny horses behind them.

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  • The wagons escorted by the hussars drew up to the picket ropes and a crowd of hussars surrounded them.

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  • A little behind the hussars came Denisov, accompanied by two infantry officers with whom he was talking.

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  • On the previous day Platov reconnoitered with two Cossack regiments and two squadrons of hussars.

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  • Rostov explained that he wanted to see Major Denisov of the hussars, who was wounded.

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  • Hussars, ladies, witches, clowns, and bears, after clearing their throats and wiping the hoarfrost from their faces in the vestibule, came into the ballroom where candles were hurriedly lighted.

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  • A French noncommissioned officer of hussars, in crimson uniform and a shaggy cap, shouted to the approaching Balashev to halt.

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  • The Russian Cossacks and bugler and the French hussars looked silently at one another from time to time.

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  • A French colonel of hussars, who had evidently just left his bed, came riding from the village on a handsome sleek gray horse, accompanied by two hussars.

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  • Four days before, sentinels of the Preobrazhensk regiment had stood in front of the house to which Balashev was conducted, and now two French grenadiers stood there in blue uniforms unfastened in front and with shaggy caps on their heads, and an escort of hussars and uhlans and a brilliant suite of aides-de-camp, pages, and generals, who were waiting for Napoleon to come out, were standing at the porch, round his saddle horse and his Mameluke, Rustan.

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  • For the Pavlograd hussars, however, the whole of this retreat during the finest period of summer and with sufficient supplies was a very simple and agreeable business.

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  • Rostov riding in front gave the order "Forward!" and the hussars, with clanking sabers and subdued talk, their horses' hoofs splashing in the mud, defiled in fours and moved along the broad road planted with birch trees on each side, following the infantry and a battery that had gone on in front.

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  • And the hussars, passing along the line of troops on the left flank of our position, halted behind our uhlans who were in the front line.

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  • The hussars remained in the same place for about an hour.

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  • As soon as the uhlans descended the hill, the hussars were ordered up the hill to support the battery.

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  • He felt instinctively that if the hussars struck at the French dragoons now, the latter could not withstand them, but if a charge was to be made it must be done now, at that very moment, or it would be too late.

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  • On seeing the hussars, the foremost began to turn, while those behind began to halt.

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  • One Uhlan stopped, another who was on foot flung himself to the ground to avoid being knocked over, and a riderless horse fell in among the hussars.

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  • Some hussars who galloped up disengaged his foot and helped him into the saddle.

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  • On all sides, the hussars were busy with the dragoons; one was wounded, but though his face was bleeding, he would not give up his horse; another was perched up behind an hussar with his arms round him; a third was being helped by an hussar to mount his horse.

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  • The hussars galloped hastily back with their prisoners.

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  • He was preparing to enter the university, but he and his friend Obolenski had lately, in secret, agreed to join the hussars.

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  • He had asked Pierre to find out whether he would be accepted in the hussars.

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  • To join the hussars?

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  • After the hussars had come to the village and Rostov had gone to see the princess, a certain confusion and dissension had arisen among the crowd.

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  • The lieutenant colonel of hussars smiled beneath his mustache at the orderly's tone, dismounted, gave his horse to a dispatch runner, and approached Bolkonski with a slight bow.

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  • In front rode a detachment of Wurttemberg hussars and behind them rode the King of Naples himself accompanied by a numerous suite.

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  • This difficulty had arisen chiefly because the hussars did not understand what was said to them in French.

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  • A few days before the battle of Borodino, Nicholas received the necessary money and warrants, and having sent some hussars on in advance, he set out with post horses for Voronezh.

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  • No one found more opportunities for attacking, no one captured or killed more Frenchmen, and consequently he was made the buffoon of all the Cossacks and hussars and willingly accepted that role.

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  • In the twilight saddled horses could be seen, and Cossacks and hussars who had rigged up rough shelters in the glade and were kindling glowing fires in a hollow of the forest where the French could not see the smoke.

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  • Not all the Cossacks and hussars were asleep; here and there, amid the sounds of falling drops and the munching of the horses near by, could be heard low voices which seemed to be whispering.

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  • His horse by habit made as if to nip his leg, but Petya leaped quickly into the saddle unconscious of his own weight and, turning to look at the hussars starting in the darkness behind him, rode up to Denisov.

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  • Cossacks, hussars, and ragged Russian prisoners, who had come running from both sides of the road, were shouting something loudly and incoherently.

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  • Darlings! old soldiers exclaimed, weeping, as they embraced Cossacks and hussars.

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  • The hussars and Cossacks crowded round the prisoners; one offered them clothes, another boots, and a third bread.

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  • At one time, as in the case of Blechingdon, they would perform strange exploits worthy of the most daring hussars; at another their speed and tenacity paralyses armies.

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