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Definition of Detachments
1. detachment [n] - See also: detachment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detachments
Literary usage of Detachments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records Relating to American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action from the edited by Charles E. Schamel (1997)
""C" detachments were the operational detachments at the company level. ...
"B" detachments reported to the "C" detachment for their corps area and were the ..."
2. Life of Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest by John Allan Wyeth (1908)
"... under Acting Brigadier- General WW Duffield, and the Seventh Pennsylvania,
under Major Seibert— detachments Hold the Right and Left Wings Engaged while ..."
3. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... incursion against Valencia—Returns to Aragon—Difficulty of the war in
Catalonia—Operations of the seventh corps—French detachments surprised at Mullet ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"Lieut Carr gallantly drove several detachments before him until they reached the
main body. Having now found where the enemy were posted, I ordered Capt. ..."
5. History of the Hartford Convention: With a Review of the Policy of the by Theodore Dwight (1833)
"The detachments, when marched to the several posts assigned them, with their
proper officers appointed conformably to the laws of the state, will command, ..."
6. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State library, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State Library (1891)
"We always carried on trade there without any interruption, and have sent considerable
detachments thither on various occasions. MINISTERIAL MINUTE ON THE ..."
7. Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events by Jedidiah Morse (1824)
"After the surrender of Charlestown, Sir Henry Clinton made three detachments from
his army ; the first and most considerable, to the north of the Santee, ..."
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