How To Use Camp follower In A Sentence
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The whole thing has been a hideous blunder, and the idea of encumbering a force of four thousand men with something like thirty thousand camp followers, and with a train of no less than nineteen thousand bullocks, to say nothing of other draught animals, is the most preposterous thing I ever heard of.
At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War
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As the theatre of war moved south, so did the smallpox, primarily affecting civilians, camp followers, and irregular troops in both armies.
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Much of the hidden diversity of the ancient camp followers remains, silent and unaltered, within the stocks of today.
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Camp followers shared the military fortunes of the armies they accompanied.
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Mademoiselle Delaunay was George Sand -- independent, gifted, on the road to fame like that great _declassee_ of old; and he was her friend and comrade, a humble soldier, a camp follower, in the great army of letters.
The History of David Grieve
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The Roman army on campaign attracted camp followers, and the later physical expression of this is the civil settlement.
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As the theatre of war moved south, so did the smallpox, primarily affecting civilians, camp followers, and irregular troops in both armies.
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She was not a common harlot and camp follower but a woman known to the Athenians as a hetaira—a beautiful, educated, and charming female who shared the bed of her sponsor but also served as his confidante and advisor.
Alexander the Great
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Here she will sit through the hour, gossiping with her friends, watching the antics of several beautiful, dubious women, camp followers of the rich, who add undoubted interest to the place; calling languidly to her dog: "_Viens, Tou-tou!
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
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As the theatre of war moved south, so did the smallpox, primarily affecting civilians, camp followers, and irregular troops in both armies.
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Thus the novel follows the Carthaginian foot soldier, Imco Vaca, and also tells of a Numidian horseman, Tusselo, and of a Greek scribe, Silenus, and of the camp follower,
David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian.
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The initial reaction from governing elites and their media camp followers was disbelief.
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The concentration of so many men and camp followers promoted the outbreaks of cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, typhoid fever, typhus, bubonic plague - and venereal diseases.
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The enterprise faltered against Afghan resistance, and the main garrison at Kabul -- about 4,500 troops and 12,000 family members and camp followers -- decided to retreat back to India in January 1842.
In Bob Woodward's 'Obama's Wars,' Neil Sheehan sees parallels to Vietnam
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Essentially a sutler was a camp follower who sold provisions to the soldiers, part of early logistics.
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After a cavalry charge, infantry, with fixed bayonets and adamsite gas, a riot control agent, entered the Bonus Army camps and successfully evicted veterans, families and camp followers.
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