Sentence examples for for a regiment from inspiring English sources

Suffrage was, like Hillary Clinton's candidacy, not merely a cause in itself, but a symbolic rallying point, a color guard for a regiment of other ideas.

You come across the photographs again and again, a deceptively humble room with cobwebbed windows and a long row of ancient wheelbarrows tipped up against a whitewashed wall, or an armory of garden forks hanging from wrought-iron hooks -- tools for a regiment of gardeners.

He declared all of the "contrabands" in the Port Royal district free, and began gathering former slaves for a regiment of black soldiers.

He remained in school through 1862, but then left to raise a company for a regiment being organized in New York.

Karl Mack became the new main commander in Austria's army, instituting infantry reforms on the eve of the war that called for a regiment to be composed of four battalions of four companies, rather than the older three battalions of six companies.

After deliberation, Congress directed General Philip Schuyler, who had been appointed to lead the Army's Northern Department, to work with New York's provincial government to establish (and pay for) a regiment consisting of the Boys, and that they be paid Army rates for their service at Ticonderoga.

Still, in peacetime, he would remain a colonel to stay eligible for command of a regiment.

I suppose it is that that makes the intellectual so anxious for a regimenting government which they could so ill endure.

In 1855 Holliday received the honorary title of Colonel for supervising a regiment during the Wakarusa War.

On the Sabbath morning of Oct. 12, exhausted from days of baking and feeding soldiers and now stragglers, Pleasant Hill's brothers and sisters were preparing for worship when a regiment of Southern cavalry formed into line at the north end of the village and put out pickets in the streets.

He kept his brand-new wagon hitched to the star of Edward Montagu, later the Earl of Sandwich, who raised a regiment for Cromwell and was amply rewarded for it, but who, at the end of the sixteen-fifties, with the Lord Protector dead and a royalist tide running, switched sides with the alacrity of an Afghan warlord.