Sentence examples for detachment of troops from inspiring English sources

Zebulon Montgomery Pike led a small detachment of troops into New Mexican territory.

His last mission prior to retiring finds him leading a detachment of troops tasked with moving Native Americans to reservations.

Khan himself led his detachment of troops up a hill and into Wandsworth Common ward, which comfortably returned three Conservative councillors last year.

There are the obscure activities of a criminal gang that may or may not be under his control, and the reappearance of the brutal Colonel Moller with a detachment of troops.

During this time, a 240-man federal force, which included a detachment of troops from the First, marched into Missouri with orders to break up a gang of rebel guerrillas.

A detachment of troops from Haydock was called out and special constables sworn in by the local magistrate.

Post commanders in the Old Northwest, today called the Midwest, sent small detachments of troops into small towns to hunt down, arrest and return deserters – as they did in the Clark County operation.

Early in the winter, Washington sent out detachments of troops to systematically remove any remaining provisions and livestock from convenient access by the British.

Early on September 18, Brown's troops surprised a British contingent holding some prisoners near the Lake George landing, while a detachment of his troops sneaked up Mount Defiance, and captured most of the sleeping construction crew.

Ukraine says it repelled a detachment of Russian troops in southern Ukraine, north of Crimea.

Putin was joined, however, by Chinese President Xi Jinping, and the procession prominently featured a detachment of Chinese troops.