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Definition of Skirmished
1. skirmish [v] - See also: skirmish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skirmished
Literary usage of Skirmished
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)
"After having skirmished with Jackson's force, estimated correctly at two thousand
six hundred men, near Trion, on the morning of April second, he determined ..."
2. History of the One Hundredth Regiment of New York State Volunteers: Being a by George H. Stowits (1870)
"skirmished AND SCOUTED THE ENTIRE ISLAND. THE DIFFICULTIES, SUFFERINGS AND DELAYS
OF THE CAMPAIGN. As stated, in obedience to orders, the regiment was ready ..."
3. Froissart in Britain by Jean Froissart, Henry Newbolt (1902)
"... the Englishmen, but skirmished ever by day and by night. And the next morning
the lords of England heard mass and ranged again their battalions as they ..."
4. Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries: From the by Jean Froissart (1839)
"They came to the gates of Durham, where they skirmished, but made no long stay,
and set out on their return, as they had planned at the beginning of the ..."
5. History of the French revolution, and of the wars resulting from that by John James M'Gregor (1821)
"... when large bodies of the enemy's horse appeared in their front, with which
the Mysore horse skirmished, and the piquets he- ing immediately advanced, ..."
6. A Hundred Battles in the West, St. Louis to Atlanta, 1861-65: The Second by Marshall P. Thatcher (1884)
"June—2d, marched four miles on Ackworth aud Dallas road skirmishing; 5th, skirmished
enemy at same place, captured one prisoner; 8th, marched eighteen ..."
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