Sentence examples for for a regiment of 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.

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

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.

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.

Not only did he trade a regiment of dragoons for a shipment of Chinese porcelain, but he also built a "Japanese" palace in Dresden to house his collection, which had grown to more than 50,000 pieces.

Colonel William Phipps, a Yeoman of Lincolnshire, raised a regiment of horse for Charles I. Another of his ancestors was Lord Chancellor of Ireland in the reign of Queen Anne.

His service was interrupted by the American Civil War during 1862 session, when he was authorized by President Abraham Lincoln to raise a regiment of cavalry for federal service.

There has been enough bungling in the conduct of the Florida voting to keep a regiment of lawyers busy for a year.

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