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brigade
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A brigade is a military unit. Brigade may also refer to: Brigade (album) , a 1990 album by Heart Brigade (band) , an English rock band Brigade (comics) , a comic book series by Image Comics Brigade (Marvel Comics) , a video game character in Marvel Nemesis: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A group of people organized for a common purpose. 2 (context military English) Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service. 3 (context derogatory English) A group of people who share ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"subdivision of an army," 1630s, from French brigade "body of soldiers" (14c.), from Italian brigata "troop, crowd, gang," from brigare "brawl, fight," from briga "strife, quarrel," perhaps of Celtic (compare Gaelic brigh , Welsh bri "power") or Germanic ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brigade \Bri*gade"\, n. [F. brigade, fr. It. brigata troop, crew, brigade, originally, a contending troop, fr. briga trouble, quarrel. See Brigand .] (Mil.) A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, ...
Usage examples of brigade.
Once a division received its supplies, the food had to be divided among the brigades, then further separated and sent to the regiments and artillery batteries and cavalry units.
Lukien turned to see Trager, Breck, and four others of their brigade toting the iron box.
In brigading the regiments no attention whatever was paid to the race or color of the men.
General Gatacre was nominally in command of a division, but so cruelly had his men been diverted from him, some to Buller in Natal and some to Methuen, that he could not assemble more than a brigade.
French with two cavalry brigades formed the left advance, Pole-Carew the centre, and Buller the right, the whole operations extending over thirty miles of infamous country.
We could have eaten in the brigade mess hootch, but we would have had about the same food.
After dropping him off at the brigade TOC, I drove to the hootch to gather my belongings, my mind churning with things I needed to tell Ed before he took over.
The field clear, Marion left his brigade in charge of Horry, and repaired to Jacksonborough, to attend the Assembly, to which he had been elected a member from St.
And every manjack of us in the Irish Brigade is willing to shed his blood to bring about that glorious day.
The 127th brigade were to go through when these positions had been made good and occupy the high ground overlooking Marou, a small hamlet on the final objective, which was to be taken by the 6th Manchesters.
Brigade implant in her left mastoid bone, and her belly twisted in an abrupt resurgence of guilt.
Ahead of him was a brigade of skirmishers, a misted valley, an unsuspecting enemy and, for the moment, silence.
A force of four to six divisions along with a couple of ACRs and extra aviation brigades should have little difficulty overrunning the Iraqi armed forces and conquering the country, but it never hurts to be certain, and in this situation we need to be certain.
The essential features of the plan were that at a preconcerted signal we at the, second and third floors should appear at the windows with bricks and irons from the tobacco presses, which a should shower down on the guards and drive them away, while the men of the first floor would pour out, chase the guards into the board house in the basement, seize their arms, drive those away from around Libby and the other prisons, release the officers, organize into regiments and brigades, seize the armory, set fire to the public buildings and retreat from the City, by the south side of the James, where there was but a scanty force of Rebels, and more could be prevented from coming over by burning the bridges behind us.
But if a couple of brigades of good troops could take some town or other suitable point on the communications, they might, with sea-power behind them, cause a prolonged interruption, require heavy forces to be moved against them, and then withdraw to strike again at some other point.