reconnoissances

On the 31st, the rain having ceased, directions were given at an early hour to both Merritt and Crook to make reconnoissances preparatory to securing Five Forks, and about 9 o'clock Merritt started for the crossroads, Davies's brigade supporting him.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

No forward movement was made for nearly six months, however, and throughout this period drills, parades, reconnoissances, and foraging expeditions filled in the time profitably.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

I have made several reconnoissances among the old people, in hopes to learn something of the armorial bearings, but I never heard of such a circumstance.

The Monastery 2008

Under the administration of Colonel Faidherbe, reconnoissances have been pushed far up into the country.

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

In the meantime reconnoissances were made and plans matured for operations.

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat

General Franklin concluded that the place had been surrendered; and his conclusion was verified by reconnoissances.

Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens

For this difficult operation we were not entirely ready, and moreover we might altogether neglect the castle, if, as we then hoped, our reconnoissances should prove that the distant southern approaches to the city were more eligible than this southwestern one.

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat

For the preparation of five additional reports of reconnoissances and surveys since the last session of Congress, for the civil construction upon 37 different public works commenced, eight others for which specific appropriations have been made by acts of Congress, and twenty other incipient surveys under the authority given by the act of April 30th, 1824, about $1,000,000 more has been drawn from the Treasury.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

Franklin, Topographical Engineers, were employed before and during the engagement in making reconnoissances, and on the field were very active in bringing information and in conveying my orders to distant points.

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat

Previous reconnoissances, made first by Brigadier-General W.F. Smith, Chief Engineer, and afterward by Thomas Sherman, and myself in company with him, of the country opposite Chattanooga and north of the Tennessee river, extending as far east as the mouth of the North Chicamauga, and also of the mouth of the South

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat