Sentence examples for enlistment that from inspiring English sources

Not long after the news of the Jacksonville expedition made its way to Washington, however, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton ordered the full-scale enlistment that would put 180,000 black men in blue by the end of the war.

It's too early to determine how many will enlist as a result of the ad blitz, due to a testing and interviewing process for enlistment that takes several weeks.

It differs slightly from that of the oath of enlistment that enlisted members recite when they enter the service.

It was in 1942, perhaps around the time of Kussi's enlistment, that his uncle Jiří Eisenstein wrote him the six-page letter that is now in the Holocaust Museum, where its accession number is 2011.79.

These and other measures so stimulated enlistments that the payment of "bounty money" (recruitment bonuses) was abolished in 1870.

Although 87,588 men responded to the militia call, the total of enlistments that summer and fall was over half a million.

Washington faced a personnel crisis toward the end of 1775, as most of the troops in the army had enlistments that expired at the end of 1775.

Light-skinned black men entering the military could check the box on the enlistment form that said "Negro" and be confined to Jim Crow units where they built roads, dug latrines or served food to whites.

Inherent in these occupations, however, are also factors (e.g., camaraderie, pre-enlistment screening) that may inoculate against the development or maintenance of psychiatric conditions.

At issue: the $30,000 in enlistment bonuses that it claimed he had improperly received five years earlier.

The Cardwell Reforms of 1868 1872 had abolished the purchase of commissions, professionalising the officer corps, and reformed the system of enlistment so that recruits now served for six years with the colours and then a further six years liable for reserve service.