Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A train of wagons carrying provisions and warlike stores required for an army in the field.
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Examples
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The tents, the supply-train, the wagon-loads of gifts and generous dowries; it needed a small army to transport us.
Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003
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In 1809 he also introduced nine battalions of supply-train troops, responsible for the establishment of forward depots, convoys and front-line distribution, and in 1812 these were augmented to a total of 22 formations, but at best they provided a mediocre service.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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In 1809 he also introduced nine battalions of supply-train troops, responsible for the establishment of forward depots, convoys and front-line distribution, and in 1812 these were augmented to a total of 22 formations, but at best they provided a mediocre service.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Last week they had five hundred wounded to treat, and two of the M. O.'s had to take a supply-train of seven hundred slightly wounded down to Rouen with only two orderlies.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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Accordingly, General Slocum was ordered to send his main supply-train, under escort of two divisions, straight for
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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Breakfast over, I caught the morning supply-train to Miraflores, there to dash through the locks for a five-minute interview.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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Only two batteries were to be taken -- the Eighth and the Thirteenth -- but he said that he would like to have me go along in command of the supply-train.
War in the Garden of Eden Kermit Roosevelt 1916
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Our advance, composed of a portion of two regiments, encountered the leading wagons of a supply-train guarded by a detachment of
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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Cottonport, September 30th, and in the capture of General Rosecrans's great supply-train in Sequatchie Valley, October 2, 1863.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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The station is full of trains, and, arriving by a supply-train, you are discharged at some remote siding.
On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913
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