Sentence examples for american regiment from inspiring English sources

In South Carolina General Hunter organized the Union Army's first African American regiment and was soon described by the Confederacy as a "felon to be executed if captured".

In 1897 Saint-Gaudens completed a monument in Boston depicting Robert G. Shaw, colonel of an African American regiment in the Civil War.

Three hundred and five died in the Ia Drang Valley alone, one of the heaviest losses ever sustained by a single American regiment.

Listen to this: "There was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities - had been an officer in a South American regiment among other odd things - but had not achieved much in any way of life, and was in debt, and in hiding.

This was the perfect moment to segue into Buffalo Soldiers Day festivities, so I pressed play on my phone to stream in the Bob Marley song written to commemorate the African American regiment.

In early November the 4th Division relieved an African American regiment near Metz, and was preparing to chase German defenders down the Moselle River, with Middleton to lead the attack.

The "American regiments" and their families huddled around campfires in front of each tent, adjacent to the enemy, as fireflies pulsed and crickets chirped.

The underrated North Koreans virtually destroyed two American regiments and cornered our retreating forces for three blood-soaked months at the edge of the Sea of Japan.

When Massachusetts Gov. John Andrew sought to form one of the Union Army's first African American regiments from a Northern state (other units had been formed of emancipated slaves in the South), he offered the command of that regiment, the 54th Massachusetts, to Shaw.

At this time, the Lunga perimeter was defended by four American regiments comprising 13 infantry battalions.

Gov. John Andrew of Massachusetts was determined that his state would produce the first African-American regiment raised in the North.