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Definition of Evolutions
1. evolution [n] - See also: evolution
Lexicographical Neighbors of Evolutions
Literary usage of Evolutions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand Book for Infantry: Containing the First Principles of Military by William Duane (1814)
"Evolutions. I. Evolutions are the movements of a single corps either for the ...
The purpose of discipline is to teach the method of executing evolutions in ..."
2. Infantry Tactics: For the Instruction, Exercise, and Manœuvres of the by Silas Casey (1862)
"Evolutions OF A CORPS D'ARMEE. General principles for the evolutions of a ...
The evolutions of a brigade comprehending all the principles and details of ..."
3. A plan of discipline, composed for the use of the militia of the county of by William Windham, George Townshend Townshend (1760)
"Of the Evolutions, ART. I. Yhe fimple Evolutions wheeling and doubling by DIVISIONS.
I. TT 7 HEN the battalion has gone through fuch \\ part of the firings, ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"Her brother-in-law, l)uke Ernest, who accompanied her on the occasion, did not
conceal his contempt for the evolutions of her citizen soldiers, ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"The cavalry of Scythia was forced to yield to the admirable swiftness and spirit
of the Arabian horses ; their riders were skilled in the evolutions of ..."
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