Sentence examples for riflemen of from inspiring English sources

His father had been bayoneted to death by Assamese riflemen of the Indian Army in 1956, and his mother gaoled.

His outstanding work was a ballad cycle, Mūžības skartie (1937 39; "Marked by Eternity"), about the Latvian riflemen of World War I. His influence was felt in a new generation of poets who migrated to the West after World War II.

After an inconsequential exchange of musket fire at long range, Woodford sent the riflemen of the Culpeper Minutemen off to the left.

The Hessians crossed swampy land and when they approached the wooded hillside near the fort, they were fired upon by 250 riflemen of the Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment under the command of Lt. Col. Moses Rawlings.

Then, just hours after the capture of Beersheba, on 1 November, a second raid by five officers and 220 riflemen of the 3/3rd Gurkhas Rifles (233rd Brigade 75th Division) was carried out against Outpost Hill.

The Riflemen of Bennington.

Wayne's force now consisted of two companies of riflemen, one of dragoons, and most of the Pennsylvania Line, and included three pieces of field artillery.

The first book in English on target rifle shooting, Scloppetaria; or, Considerations on the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrell Guns…by a Corporal of Riflemen (pseudonym of Capt. Henry Beaufoy), was published in 1808.

By this time, the Confederates were close enough to be fired on by artillery canister and Alexander Hays' division unleashed very effective musketry fire from behind 260 yards of stone wall, with every rifleman of the division lined up as many as four deep, exchanging places in line as they fired and then fell back to reload.

He remembers vividly being the officer who informed the parents of Rifleman Joe Murphy of their son's death in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in July 2009.

Its members like to think they belong to an ageless institution, a wandering band of riflemen for whom the battle for Iwo Jima is as close at hand as the fight for Kuwait.