Military engagement

Usage examples of skirmish.

Still more they resented being sent south for skirmish duty while Brian Boru was assembling the main army at Dublin for the battle to determine the future of Ireland.

Peter Horry had been engaged in a series of petty but rather amusing skirmishes, in the neighborhood of Georgetown.

The youth of the province were animated by the heroic, and almost incredible, valor of Ecdicius, the son of the emperor Avitus, who made a desperate sally with only eighteen horsemen, boldly attacked the Gothic army, and, after maintaining a flying skirmish, retired safe and victorious within the walls of Clermont.

Dracius, and leading the Phthian ranks came Medon flanking Podarces tough in skirmish.

Now that Godfrey had been killed in a recent skirmish between royal and rebel troops near Gloucester and had had no living heir--his son having died three years before in the war,--the castle and des mesne had been granted to Baron Alain de Treville, by King Stephen.

The sorcerous Schools, like all the Great Factions, ceaselessly skirmished with spies, assassinations, trade sanctions, and delegations of outraged envoys.

In the skirmish that followed, Iberville and Perrot pressed with a handful of men forward very close to the ranks of the English.

Forty, sixty, a hundred deaths resulting from the skirmishes between the Scrow and the Yunamata.

Iliffe, as befitted an officer in a skirmishing company, wore a light cavalry saber.

The second men of the allied skirmishing pairs fired, but the voltigeurs were too numerous and their musket fire was almost continuous and the red, green and brown jackets were falling back.

Ahead of the column the sound of the skirmishing grew in intensity as the voltigeurs closed the range and opened on the riflemen with their muskets.

Red-coated and green-jacketed skirmishers ran over the top of the British ridge, then down the long slope where they spread into the skirmishing chain.

There was some skirmishing, small outbreaks of musket fire, the feeling out of two great armies close together.

Own, when that company was advancing in skirmishing order in the face of a hot fire, kept continually encouraging his comrades in both words and action.

Smith ordered an advance of his force, the detachment of the 60th Battalion and the Home Guards advancing in skirmishing order, and the company of Victoria Rifles covering their advance from the slope of the hill.