Sentence examples for white troops from inspiring English sources
White troops numbered 5,716, about 40% of white men in the colony, with 1,720 of these serving as commissioned officers.
White troops in the Viipuri area tried to capture the trains; 20 30 Finns, Red and White, died in the "Battle of the Rahja Trains" in the Karelian Isthmus on 27 January 1918.
They made history fighting ably alongside white troops.
Tull's story exposes how military law prevented black men from commanding white troops.
Just as important, many Union leaders argued that pay equity would inflame the prejudices of white troops.
The Second South Carolina, which carried out the raid along with white troops from Rhode Island, was made up of liberated slaves, many from the Combahee area.
It cannot be right that our children must actively search for the participation of non-white troops during the first world war.
Most horribly, some white Union troops, driven by fear of Southern retribution and their own racism, attacked the black troops on their own side.
As the war progressed, and sacrifice was piled upon sacrifice to a degree unimagined at the start, the views of (white) Union troops changed.
It's a powerful reversal of, say, the old pictures you see of school integration in Alabama, where the white National Guard troops are protecting the black students from other whites.
After that Oddbury was put off limits for all white American troops except officers, and at the same time Evenbury, another town within bicycle range of the Umpty-seventh camp, was put off limits for colored troops.
