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Definition of Rangers
1. ranger [n] - See also: ranger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rangers
Literary usage of Rangers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"Immediately a yell echoed through the woods, and about one hundred und fifty
rangers issued forth, and came within ten feet of the muzzles of the guns of ..."
2. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada: Déliberations by Royal Society of Canada (1908)
"History of the Queen's rangers. By JAMES HANNAY, DCL (Read May 26, 1908.) I.
Of the forty or more battalions of Loyalists which enlisted in the service of ..."
3. Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Canadian Forestry Association by Canadian Forestry Association (1900)
"In 1897 the number of rangers was 179 and the total-cost ... The rangers reported
that there was greater care exercised by settlers and explorers and ..."
4. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1877)
"only the four companies of the Connaught rangers, lst Pe™°d' with a strength ...
When the four companies of the rangers had The four reached the camp of the ..."
5. Pennsylvania, Province and State: A History from 1609 to 1790 by Albert Sidney Bolles (1899)
"450 rangers on the Frontiers 1760 2,2to Total force (estimated) from Pennsylvania
... As most of the militia and rangers served two and three tours of duty, ..."
6. The Military Laws of the United States: Relating to the Army, Volunteers by United States, John F. Callan (1868)
"That when the said rangers arm and equip themselves and provide their own ...
That each of the said companies of rangers shall consist of one captain, ..."
7. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"On the instant Garcia bounded off, and a number of the rangers followed, ...
One of the rangers followed so close that his horse also made the plunge and ..."
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