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    brigade


    brigades


    1. allies all with the Gaia brigade and the parka mob,


    2. It was Altera who had given Naria the idea for the Light Brigade – an all female personal guard


    3. She soon found that this shy little man, whose timidity was the butt of many jokes within her Light Brigade, had the finest mind in the realm


    4. Word had spread thru the Queen’s Light Brigade of Altera’s challenge


    5. There was great anticipation and curiosity among the Brigade


    6. The Light Brigade all hooted acceptance and stomped their feet once again


    7. They went down another long hallway to two huge doors guarded by two members of the Light Brigade


    8. She passed many of the Light Brigade, intend on keeping watch over their Queen


    9. She came to the brigade quarters and traveled the halls of this wing of the Hold


    10. The vat of water in the Women’s Brigade quarters has been tainted with a slow acting poison

    11. When the members of the Light Brigade saw her return to her quarters with the Queen’s sword they knew that the order had finally been given


    12. Altera was soon inundated with requests to be part of the detail she would take with her; the Queen’s Light Brigade did not care for the inhabitants of Miner’s Hold, especially Matai


    13. Naria and Altera were ready with the Queen’s Light Brigade


    14. Covered in green blood, the warriors emerged from the trees announcing their victory with shouts of “Uwah!” At Lord Tarak’s direction they left the mopping up to the Light Brigade and headed out towards the Ohmu Inn


    15. The Easter Sunday lunchtime crawl; bickering families on their way to The Big Sheep, fourteen hundred cubic centimetres of internally-combusting scenic country-lane driving, the flat cap and ladder-back glove brigade


    16. Collar up, he picks up the pace and pushes past a small family group, muttering curses under his breath, and disappears into the hospital foyer, where the interminably waiting stewed tea and bun brigade stand and stare


    17. There was no brigade of bomber bees, on account of the screen


    18. Quick as a flash he reached his phone and rang the local brigade


    19. ” The call was acknowledged Fred carried on putting his old fire overalls and hat on then as he walked down to woodland he heard the Brigade alarm blast across the fields


    20. Fred's mind racing, in the brigade it was always look after people and animals before anything else

    21. He took the puppy and laid it carefully on the ground just as he heard the Brigade engine in the distance


    22. Luckily the Brigade chief checked Fred's car and found his pets


    23. “Well I think Pte Mack has summed things up nicely and with that in mind we have been tasked by Brigade to send out a recce patrol and locate a source of water


    24. But now we must really get over there and be ready for the off when the time comes some more good news is that we will be with our old friends the Fusiliers and the 86th Brigade


    25. All of a sudden we heard heavy firing coming from over on our right were some of the 86th Brigade lads where but just at that moment we were moving through a gully and so couldn’t pinpoint the direction


    26. “Because of the lack of communication and the roughness of the terrain there doesn’t seem to be anyone in overall command issuing the right orders and so Brigade has ordered us back”, there was a sick look on the Major’s face now as he continued


    27. I knew that he was with the 42nd Division and that he was with the 1/5th Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers and that they were part of the 125th Lancashire Fusilier Brigade so he was sure to be landing today and I hoped to god it went well


    28. “There will be a naval bombardment of the Turkish positions and then we and the Lancashire Fusiliers who landed with us who have now officially been amalgamated into the 88th Brigade will attack our targets in fact let me tell you the whole of the 29th Division will be in the attack


    29. I am sorry that we haven’t had any more time but Brigade didn’t receive the orders until 4am this morning and we didn’t get them till 6am so there was little time to brief you before now”, and with this we were dismissed to get our kit and move up to the start line


    30. At about 4pm the order came from Brigade to dig in on the line we now held so the big advance up ‘Fir Tree Spur had gained us about four hundred yards

    31. The New Zealand Brigade had moved up in support and at dusk we all dug in again maybe two hundred yards from where we had started off from this morning and still no closer to the main body of Turkish troops


    32. “Have you heard about this new lot that just landed the 125th Brigade?” I bolted upright and shouted at him


    33. “We landed on W Beach and it took us till well into the afternoon to get the Brigade ashore though most of us were happy to be here and not at sea


    34. By the time the Brigade was ready to move it was dark and this meant we had to march through the night to reach our start point near the head of ‘Gully Ravine’ and it was 2am in the morning before we arrived there


    35. “The rest of the Brigade was trying to push up towards us but they were being slaughtered were they stood so naval artillery was called in to silence the machine guns but this did no good because the shells could not find them let alone smash them


    36. A new Lieutenant had turned up he had been seconded to us to replace Walter Cole and should have arrived with the 125th Brigade but he had been ill in Egypt which didn’t bode well for here


    37. “Listen lads we have been asked to put a recce patrol on tonight by Brigade the patrol will tell us what Johnny Turk is up to and it would seem from what the CSM has told me you four have volunteered”, we saw the grin on the CSMs face as this was revealed to us


    38. “The priority for this patrol is to find out what the Turks are up to Brigade need to know if they are massing for a serious attack


    39. Ted Wallace then informed the Captain showing him on the trench map were the new gaps where in the Turkish wire so that he could inform Brigade and the Captain went off looking rather pleased


    40. The 88th Brigade of the 29th Division and that includes our Company will attack up the left flank then the day after on the 7th August two Brigades of the 42nd Division will attack up the right flank

    41. We stood in the reserve trenches as our Company had been designated in the second wave and as we looked foreword we could see the first wave of the 88th Brigade stood in the front line trenches waiting and at 2:20pm our artillery bombardment began


    42. Tears streamed down my face but I was not crying for myself but because of the waste of good men I looked once again at the dead and wounded on either side of me and I asked myself the question was it worth it for a few yards of ground? There were no more waves coming now and that was because the 88th Brigade had ceased to exist it had been destroyed in this madness along with our Company


    43. “Wounded survivors from the 88th Brigade were coning in


    44. The Turks didn’t know about the attack and didn’t know what hit them when the two assault waves from the 1st Brigade charged out of the tunnel ends


    45. After this he told us how proud he was to have us in his Brigade we gave him three cheers and he rode off with his entourage back to his nice comfortable HQ


    46. This information put a feeling of dread in all of us and we felt scared and angry about it and we were not alone both Brigade and Battalion were worried about the lack of damage


    47. “Cpl Lamb this is Major Vine from the Provost’s Office and this is Captain Berryman from Brigade HQ


    48. But it wasn’t a dream as I knew when the Brigade Captain said


    49. General Chaffee's Brigade was ordered to form the advance in conjunction with Lawton's division, and reached Jaragua at dusk on the 23rd


    50. General Young's cavalry brigade, with General Wheeler, then passed these outposts and advanced to Siboney













































    1. No matter how many days the brigades of winter


    2. The 88th Brigade of the 29th Division and that includes our Company will attack up the left flank then the day after on the 7th August two Brigades of the 42nd Division will attack up the right flank


    3. Colonel Miles, with the 1st, 4th, and 25th Infantry, closed in on the west, coming up on the other side of the hill; and after Capron, with a few excellent shots, had crushed in a bastion and carried away the roof in a dozen places, a united charge took place, both brigades storming the hill


    4. Lieutenant (now Colonel) Miley, who represented headquarters at the front, made superhuman effort to sustain relations with the various brigades, fearlessly exposing himself in the performance of the work of a full staff


    5. General Shafter, the generals of divisions and brigades, and their staffs, and an escort of cavalry rode beyond the lines at ten o'clock, to receive the capitulation of Santiago


    6. By the time the EPA’s scientific report could be issued the tocsin had been sounded, the brigades of misinformation had been marshaled, and environmentalists on the warpath had embellished the data with alarming “facts” of their own


    7. Their findings include the astonishing revelation that only about 5 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, of such concern to the warming brigades, are produced by human activity


    8. These schools and the teachers they graduate are dedicated to subjecting the nation to the onslaught of these particularly tenacious brigades of the Civil War


    9. This has penetrated deeply into both elite and popular culture as the artistic brigades of Civil Warriors march on


    10. Bush was President the media and other Civil War brigades endlessly criticized, and not infrequently lied about, his policies

    11. is gone, replaced with a moderated "hide" button, aimed at combating "the bury brigades", as Rose calls them


    12. Ballistic tests soon proved that the Commanders of the Londonderry and Belfast Brigades of the IRA had both been killed by weapons previously used by members of the UVF some years before


    13. brigades on missions to nowhere, celebrations without cause,


    14. Once the onslaught begins, confusion will reign on their part as we chew up their forward brigades


    15. He had his ten thousand strong cavalry contingent aligned along his left flank, probably to offer quick support to the militia brigades should they have need of it


    16. Matt shook his head wryly and said, “This reminds me of the black hat brigades who fought for the North


    17. There could be people in the streets: volunteers, gendarmes, fire brigades


    18. Between us, we’ll have four brigades of mounted infantry, as well


    19. And that didn’t even count the three-thousand-plus mortars assigned to his brigades and regiments


    20. To this centre, Wellington added one of Chasse's brigades taken from the right wing, and one of Wincke's brigades taken from the left wing, plus Clinton's division

    21. To his English, to the regiments of Halkett, to the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, Kielmansegg's Hanoverians, and Ompteda's Germans


    22. At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons and set in motion in five columns, had deployed—the divisions in two lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! Magnificent!"


    23. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the ambulance established at the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean, and of Vivian's and Vandeleur's brigades, which flanked the left wing, Wellington had no cavalry left


    24. Saintonge's regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794


    25. "The Congress protests against the use of military exercises in connection with the physical exercises of school, and suggests the formation of brigades for saving life rather than any of a quasi-military character; and it urges the desirability of impressing on the Board of Examiners, who formulate the questions for examination, the propriety of guiding the minds of children into the principles of Peace


    26. The Congress protests against the use of military drill in connection with the physical exercises of schools, and suggests the formation of brigades for saving life rather than any of quasi-military character; and it urges the desirability of impressing on the Board of Examiners, who formulate the questions for examination, the propriety of guiding the minds of children into the principles of Peace


    27. The congress protests against the use of military drill in schools by way of physical exercise, and suggests the formation of brigades for saving life rather than of a quasi-military character; and urges the desirability of impressing on the Board of Examiners who formulate the questions for examination the propriety of guiding the minds of children in the principles of peace


    28. From the best information I have been able to obtain on this subject, I have no hesitation in saying that eight major generals, and sixteen brigadiers, to command the divisions and brigades of an army of thirty-five thousand men, is the lowest estimate which the uniform practice of France, Russia, and England, will warrant, and that this is much below the proportion of officers of these grades actually employed in the army of the Revolution


    29. As you have not required my opinion whether it be necessary to have a higher grade than that of major general, I have not deemed it proper to touch this subject, and have confined myself to the number of major generals and brigadiers deemed necessary to command the divisions and brigades of an army of thirty-five thousand men


    30. Hence it is, that, as a regiment consists of two battalions, so a brigade should consist of two regiments, and a division of two brigades

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    Synonyms for "brigade"

    brigade troop company cohort group gathering following

    "brigade" definitions

    army unit smaller than a division


    form or unite into a brigade