What is "brigades"

Usage examples of "brigades".

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.

With two cavalry brigades in hand he did not push the pursuit of the routed Boers with their guns and endless streams of wagons.

Boer lines, then of course his brigadiers must have felt a reluctance to entangle their brigades in a battle which was really the result of a misunderstanding.

On the other hand, if, as the orders of the day seem to show, a serious engagement was always intended, it is strange that two brigades out of four should have played so insignificant a part.

Throughout the day reinforcements had pushed up the hill, until two full brigades had been drawn into the fight.

Three infantry brigades, those of Hart, Lyttelton, and Hildyard, had been massed all ready to be let slip when the false attack was sufficiently absorbing.

Behind them, and as useful as if it had been on Woolwich Common, there was drawn up an imposing mass of men, two infantry divisions, and two brigades of cavalry, all straining at the leash, prepared to shed their blood until the spruits ran red with it, if only they could win their way to where their half-starved comrades waited for them.

Scouts, and two brigades of mounted infantry under Colonels Ridley and Hannay.

Friday morning, and two brigades out of three were hard at work all day in an endeavour to capture the Dronfield position.

In the course of that night the British brigades, staggering with fatigue but indomitably resolute to crush their evasive enemy, were converging upon Paardeberg.

The two brigades at either end of the Boer lines had lost no chance of pushing in, and now they had come within striking distance.

There they were formed into a new division, the 4th, the brigades being given to Howard and Knox, and the command to Lyttelton, who had returned his former division, the second, to Clery.

The 5th and 6th brigades were also formed into one division, the 10th, which was placed under the capable command of Hunter, who had confirmed in the south the reputation which he had won in the north of Africa.

Three attenuated cavalry brigades with some mounted infantry completed the force.

That debonnaire soldier with his two veteran brigades obeyed the order with alacrity, and the infantry swept over the ridge, with some thirty or forty casualties, the majority of which fell to the Warwicks.