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Definition of Skirmishers
1. skirmisher [n] - See also: skirmisher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skirmishers
Literary usage of Skirmishers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"The enemy's skirmishers were encountered and driven about half a mile, ...
The skirmishers of the Fourth corps, with those of Baird on the left, ..."
2. Napoleon; a History of the Art of War by Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1904)
"The fire of the skirmishers was at first the only one relied on. ... If the
battalion broke the enemy by its charge, the skirmishers pursued him. ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"At length they deployed skirmishers to the front, and began to advance. ...
The enemy's skirmishers now advanced and engaged ours, not nearer, however, ..."
4. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1863)
"... a few minutes by their skirmishers, it would enable their main body to recover
its formation after passing through the enclosures and fording the river. ..."
5. Infantry Tactics, Double and Single Rank, Adapted to American Topography and by Emory Upton (1875)
"If the line be halted during the movement, only those skirmishers halt, ...
To cause two companies to occupy as skirmishers the ground previously occupied ..."
6. The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History by John Codman Ropes (1892)
"He says that the advance of the Guard was preceded and covered by "a mass of
skirmishers," " and that it was these skirmishers and these only that were ..."
7. Technique of Modern Tactics: A Study of Troop Leading Methods in the by Paul Stanley Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough (1916)
"If the distance from the supports to the firing line be quite short the former
may go forward as skirmishers and drop at once into their place in line. ..."
8. Technique of Modern Tactics: A Study of Troop Leading Methods in the by Paul Stanley Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough (1916)
"Under such fire, accordingly, squad columns are more vulnerable than a line of
skirmishers. The more oblique the fire, that is the nearer it approaches ..."
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