How To Use line of battle In A Sentence
- Barbarian line of battle, twenty trumpets from her poop and foreship asking, “Dare you meet me?” A Victor of Salamis
- We can scarcely think the scene real, so completely do those machicolated towers, the long line of battlements, the massive buttresses, the high-windowed walls, shape out our indistinct ideas of the antique time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
- As there were indications of a considerable force of the enemy on the Russellville road I decided to place the troops in line of battle, so as to be prepared for any emergency that might arise in the absence of the senior officers, and I deemed it prudent to supervise personally the encamping of the men. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
- A small party, that might be called a forlorn hope, provided with plank to cross the ditch, advanced at a run, up to the very ditch; the lines of infantry sprang from cover, and advanced rapidly in line of battle. Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
- they were arrayed in line of battle
- Of these, the farthest to the East is the Baltimore Pike, which passes by the East entrance to the Cemetery; the farthest to the West is the Emmetsburg road, which is wholly outside of our line of battle, but near the Cemetery, is within a hundred yards of it; the Taneytown road is between these, running nearly due North and South, by the Eastern base of Round Top, by the Western side of the Cemetery, and uniting with the Emmetsburg road between the Cemetery and the town. Haskell's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg. Paras. 26-50
- Then, instead of drawing up his soldiers in one long line of battle, he formed them into a solid body, -- an arrangement which soon became known as the Macedonian phalanx. The Story of the Greeks
- To this end I resolved to move Crook, unperceived if possible, over to the eastern face of Little North Mountain, whence he could strike the left and rear of the Confederate line, and as he broke it up, I could support him by a left half-wheel of my whole line of battle. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories