What is "conscripts"

Usage examples of "conscripts".

One of the conscripts broke ranks to pull down his pants and squat beside the road.

France had been scraped for men, then scraped again, and many of the next class of conscripts had already fled into the woods or hills to escape the sergeants who came to take cannon-fodder still not grown to manhood.

The French infantry, mostly young conscripts who had no stomach for a fight, broke and fled.

These were not the moustached, experienced veterans who had died in the appalling Spanish battles, but conscripts dragged unwilling from school or farm to die in a cause that was doomed anyway.

Sixty or seventy muskets fired at the gunsmoke, but the Marines were flat and the conscripts fired high.

Sharpe wanted the French conscripts to see those corpses and to fear the night.

Now, pushed by officers and sergeants, the survivors of those conscripts spread along the counter-guard or sheltered in the dry ditch and banged their muskets at the smoke-wreathed wall above them.

The conscripts on the counterguard fired at the fort, but most fired high.

One hundred of the men were new conscripts, brought along to fire their muskets when ordered.

The conscripts, under experienced sergeants, would flay the walls left and right of the assault with musket fire.

Most conscripts Ransome had known supported the old, narrow definition: why should others get for nothing what they had worked so hard to win?

As the mist left her eyes she saw the conscripts go by, and Mahommed Selim was in the rear rank.

At first, the seizure of conscripts, with all that it involved, had excited her greatly.

The conscripts, too, going to their death--for how few of them ever returned?