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...ns, Royalists leave, state of, in want, recruited, Revolutionary, fourteen armies on foot. ARRAS, guillotine at. ARRESTS in August 1792. ARSENAL, atte... ...ed for, his effigy burnt. BRISSAC, Duke de, commands Constitutional Guard, disbanded. BRISSOT, edits ‘Moniteur, ’ friend of Blacks, in First Parliamen...

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... proposes even that the Soldiery, having come to such a pass, be forthwith disbanded, the whole Two Hundred and Eighty Thousands of them; and organise... ...e Sixth of August, ’ has been devised for that. Inspectors shall visit all armies; and, with certain elected corporals and ‘soldiers able to write,’ v... ...as neither burst up in univer- sal simultaneous delirium; nor been at once disbanded, put an end to, and made new again. It must die in the chronic ma... ... fly? Our loyal Gardes-du-Corps, ever since the Insurrection of Women, are disbanded; gone to their homes; gone, many of them, across the Rhine toward... ... of Liberty. For the rest, those Centre Grenadiers of the Observatoire are disbanded,—yet indeed are reinlisted, all but fourteen, under a new name, a... ...ommissioners also shall go forth on all sides; the People be exhorted; the Armies be increased; care taken that the Commonweal suffer no damage.—And ... ...nexecutable. King’s Ships lie rotting in harbour, their officers gone; the Armies disorganised; robbers scour the highways, which wear down unrepaired... ...so scandalous is scandal. He drives now, with his de Stael, rapidly to the Armies, to the Frontier Towns; produces rose-coloured Reports, not too 199... .... 168.) Wherefore, with infinite de- bate, let Brissac and King’s Guard be disbanded. Disbanded accordingly they are; after only two months of existen...

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...on, with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country, it will b... ... devolving on me, and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies; and above all, to the favor of that Providence which leads both nat... ... both nations and men. ORDER ASSIGNING U. S. GRANT TO THE COM- MAND OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., March 1... ...al Ulysses S. Grant, United States Army, is assigned to the command of the Armies of the United States. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 90 The Writings of Abraham L... ...personal welfare. I have been very anxious for some days in regard to our armies in the field, but am considerably cheered, just now, by favorable ne... ...r- age that in every possible way. We shall have hundreds of thousands of disbanded soldiers, and many have feared that their return home in such gre...

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... of moor and wood were by no means clear of the remnants of the contending armies, people who were generally of the party opposite to that which they ... ...s royal banner. Warwick was calling up his men in all directions, and both armies were advancing on London. Then it was known that ‘false, fleeting, p... ...the valley of Barnet. The little town itself, though lying between the two armies, remained unoccupied by either party, and only men-at-arms came down... ...continual rain of arrows darkened the air; but as the sun rose and the two armies saw one another, Oxford’s star was 106 The Herd Boy and His Hermit ... ...r pronounced the jour- ney to be absolutely unsafe, while so many soldiers disbanded, or on their way to the Queen’s army, were roaming about, and the...

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...s of the American colonies upon needy noblemen, or hangers on at court, or disbanded offic ers. The people knew that such persons would be very likel... .... It should have taught him that the poor man’s hearth is sacred, and that armies and nations have no right to violate it. It should have made him fee... ...betrayed the mili tary plans of the English to the generals of the French armies.” “And was it true?” inquired Clara. “Probably not,” said Grandfathe... ...conquest of Canada. 94 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sChair Three separate armies were to enter Canada from different quarters. One of the three, comm... ...orge Washington, of Virginia, to be commander in chief of all the American armies. He was, at that time, a member of Congress; but immediately left Ph...

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...ing Edred, who was weak and sickly in body, but of a strong mind. And his armies fought the Northmen, the Danes, and Norwegians, or the Sea Kings, as... ... sixty six, the Normans and the English came front to front. All night the armies lay encamped before each other, in a part of the country then called... ...s steadfast in the King’s cause; and it was so well supported that the two armies, instead of fighting, made a peace. Poor Robert, who trusted anybody... ...rd upon the Thames. Here, for two days, divided only by the river, the two armies lay encamped opposite to one another—on the eve, as it seemed to all... ...Princes. Every day he heard some fresh intelligence of the Princes levying armies against him; of Prince Henry’s wearing a crown before his own ambass... ...omises, and agreeing to help him, sent secret orders to some trouble some disbanded soldiers of his and his father’s, who called themselves the Free ... ...ght have saved himself and kept his throne. But, on the English army being disbanded, he plot ted with the officers again, as he had done before, and... ...eaders, which was drawn up by certain officers. When the Scottish army was disbanded, he went to Edinburgh in four days—which was going very fast at t... ... their triumph were soon as merry as the King. The army being by this time disbanded, and the King crowned, everything was to go on easily for evermor...

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...refresh his men. But meeting with no such skirmishes as are usual when two armies lie near one another, and being assured by the people of the country... ...commanders of powerful forces, and had the leading of numerous and warlike armies, made up of divers nations. This was peculiar to Sertorius, that the... ...the front, nor yet together on any one part, but en- camping three several armies in a circle about him, they re- solved to encompass and overpower hi... ...the consul, came to attack him, and with as little success; for before the armies could join, or be within the throw of their javelins, Scipio’s soldi... ...d his army. For this was the way in which he used to raise and disband his armies, so that sometimes he would be wandering up and down all alone, and ... ...hat they should not fail to meet again at his triumph. Thus the army being disbanded, and the news commonly reported, a wonderful result en- sued. For... ...nducting 131 Plutarch’s Lives him to Rome with far greater forces than he disbanded; insomuch that if he had designed any movement or innova- tion in... ...oldiers of Sylla were Catiline’s chief stimulus to ac- tion. They had been disbanded all about Italy, but the great- est number and the fiercest of th...

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...e oftener than the others, and promise to become Leading Questions: of the Armies; of the Subsistences; thirdly, of the Dethroned King. As to the Armi... ...s and Departmental Guard; of Grain Riots, plaintiff Interior Ministers; of Armies, Hassenfratz di- lapidations; and what is to be done with Louis,—bel... ... Jacobin mis- sionaries, your Prolys, Pereiras, follow in the train of the Armies; also Convention Commissioners, melting church- plate, revolutionisi... .... Dumouriez, conquering Holland, growls ominous discontent, at the head of Armies. Men say Dumouriez will have a King; that young d’Orleans Egalite sh... ...th dim, towards remote parts of France; nay new Pro- vincial Revolutionary Armies rise dim, here and there, as Carrier’s Company of Marat, as Tallien’... ...on swallow them. In the course of a week, the Revolutionary Army itself is disbanded; the General having become spectral. This Fac- tion of Rabids, th...

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...t for freedom and truth. He waved his long sword as he spoke and dared the armies of Satan to come on, and it was hard to tell which he really meant, ... ..., and it was hard to tell which he really meant, the forces of sin, or the armies of men whom he believed to be fighting on the wrong side. Someone to... ...“A godly land!” “Ah! I know nought of Scotland,” said the woodward. “I was disbanded when my Lord Essex gave up the command, more’s the pity, for he w... ...t have been killed, but Stead had ascer- tained that the army had not been disbanded, and believed him still to be employed. At length, one market day...

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...nglishmen. He was a fair linguist, this ancient survivor of the Liberating armies. A trick of smoothing his long white beard whenever he was short of ... ...which I saw was superscribed ‘To the Commander-in-Chief of the Re-publican Armies.’ “‘This,’ General Robles went on in his loud voice, ‘was thrust by ... ...e order. It would make some talk in the army, both the orga- nized and the disbanded—especially the disbanded. All canaille! All once upon a time the ... ...ser! It has been done only ten miles from here to three poor devils of the disbanded Red Lancers of the Guard going to their homes. What says your con...

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...ed them, perhaps; the most superb review which had ever been seen. The two armies were ranged in two lines, the right of M. de Luxembourg’s touching t... ... over three leagues of ground. After stopping ten days at Gevries, the two armies sepa- rated and marched. T wo days afterwards the seige of Namur was... ... receive supplies, and could not leave his position without having the two armies of the King to grapple with: he en- trenched himself in haste, and b... ... to move, when the campaign commenced, and everybody went away to join the armies. The King, who partly saw this intrigue, soon made him- self entirel... ...ing it still more against his person than his realm. At the usual time the armies were got ready for active ser- vice, and everybody set out to join t... ...he Prince of Darmstadt. The coun- cil decreed that this regiment should be disbanded, and the Prince thanked for his assistance. These two blows follo... ...d im- petuous, whom the King allowed to act as he liked. My regi- ment was disbanded, and my company was incorporated with that of Count d’Uzes, broth... ...this year, 1713, peace with the Em- peror seemed so certain, that the King disbanded sixty Bat- 551 Saint-Simon talions and eighteen men per company ...

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...under old Leven comprehended their veteran soldiers, the strength of those armies which had been levied in Scotland during the two former wars—” Here ... ...essarily accompanied this change, as well as the establishment of standing armies, whereby war became a trade, was the introduction of a labo- rious a... ...ere indispensable requisites. Such was the natural consequence of standing armies, which had almost everywhere, and particularly in the long German wa... ...ader of his paternal territories. But Montrose, while these two formidable armies were forming a junction, had been recalled from that ravaged coun- t... ...hoose any halting-place, he would expose himself to be at- tacked by three armies at once. “I cannot rejoice in the prospect, my lord,” said Auchebrec... ...trose dur- ing his brief and glorious career; and when that heroic general disbanded his army and retired from Scotland, Menteith re- solved to adopt ...

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...f manumission, a whole company of our volunteers threw down their arms and disbanded. I was so assured as to think it prob- able that the very arms we... ... is the case, in whole or in part, in all the insurgent States; and as our armies advance upon and take possession of parts of those States the practi... ...ly the same position in relation to each other and to the enemy as did the armies of McDowell and Patterson before the battle of Bull Run. V ery respe... ...ASHINGTON. January 20, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Commanding Armies of the United States: Y ou or any officer you may designate will in ... ...aterials of war and supplies to the insurgents’ military and naval forces. Armies, ships, fortifications, navy yards, arsenals, military posts, and ga... ... the question whether conscription had not become necessary to fill up the armies of the United States. In this emergency the President felt it his du...

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...le truant Abbe, Eugene of Savoy, were not then the leaders of the opposite armies; but at the head of our own, we had M. le Prince and the Vicomte de ... ...e did at Vincennes: ‘A fine state of things that my wife should be leading armies while I am watering pinks.’ The wives had their pinks too, for the w... ...he deliverance of the Princes; but the whole time was a dangerous one, for disbanded soldiers and robbers might lurk anywhere, and we were obliged to ... ... in my brother’s state of health, to leave Paris. The city was between two armies, if not three. On the one side was that of the Princes, on the other... ...he roads with horrible marauders trained in the Thirty Year’s War. The two armies of Conde and T urenne skirmished in the suburbs, and it may be imagi... ...—these wretches were not the peaceable work-people, but bandits, ruffians, disbanded sol- diers, criminals, excited by distributions of wine and money...

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... did, because several did so at last, especially those who had been in the armies in the war which had not been many years past; and I must needs say ... ...always a notion that the numbers of people which, the wars being over, the armies disbanded, and the royal family and the monarchy being re- stored, h... ...a notion that the numbers of people which, the wars being over, the armies disbanded, and the royal family and the monarchy being re- stored, had floc... ...d them with matter to work upon. So hypochondriac fancies represent Ships, armies, battles in the firmament; Till steady eyes the exhalations solve, A...

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...ling of the elephants in their ears. Then the van- guard of the bewildered armies of the deer broke down and flooded into the village grazing-grounds ... ...wood, and Mowgli killed for him. But the young wolves, the children of the disbanded Seeonee Pack, throve and increased, and when there were about for...

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...vel plain between the high ground and the sea; the space which divided the armies being only about half a mile in breadth. Waverley could plainly see ... ... ridge which fronted their enemy, they were formed into line, so that both armies got into complete order of battle at the same moment. When this was ... ...a military spectacle of no ordinary interest, or usual occurrence. The two armies, so different in aspect and discipline, yet each admirably trained i... ... of the day depended upon the speed of their horses. The space between the armies was at times occu- pied by the partial and irregular contests of ind... ... these manoeuvres on both sides the daylight was nearly consumed, and both armies prepared to rest upon their arms for the night in the lines which th... ...ees as they ran on, and, seized with a disgraceful panic, wavered, halted, disbanded, and galloped from the field. The artillerymen, deserted by the c...

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...ity of Sir William T emple—of the king—and of that very prime minister who disbanded Cromwell’s army, to outweigh the single authority of Hume at the ... ...he whole mighty vision that had fleeted before his eyes in this world,—the armies of Hyder-Ali and his son with oriental and barbaric pageantry,—the c...

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.... I had lately arrived at Tours, where my parents had recalled me when the armies threatened Paris. A son of T ouraine to whom Touraine was as yet unk... ... of Conde, which his courage led him to join with the utmost devotion, was disbanded, he expected to find some other post under the white flag, and ne...

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...ndered as one voice for the Ital- ian Republic, and instantly broke up and disbanded. This was the folly of the young: Carlo Ammiani confessed that it... ...f war, he had taken care to be provided with safe- conduct passes for both armies, as befitted a prudent man of peace—”or sense; it is one, mesdames.”... ....” Georgiana condescended to advise Vittoria once more not to dangle after armies. “I wish to wait here to assist you in nursing our friend,” said Vit... ...r, burned by the sun. They came now to inns which had been visited by both armies. Luigi established communication with the innkeepers before the latt... ... day. That fearful companion oppressed her. She felt that one who followed armies should be cast in such a frame, and now desired with all her heart t... ...ss was interdicted at Villa Ricciardi, he said; she had dragged him at two armies’ tails to find his right senses at last: Pericles was cured of his p...

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...turning pale with anger, “seven con- Alexandre Dumas 83 joined and allied armies overthrew that man. A miracle of heaven replaced me on the throne of... ...se.” “Yes, to go and meet him.” “He has but a handful of men with him, and armies will be des- patched against him.” “Yes, to escort him into the capi... ... Cape Corso. This letter was from my brother. He told us that the army was disbanded, and that he should return by Chateauroux, Clermont-Ferrand, Le P...

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... four stormy reigns, shook the kingdom to its foundations, brought foreign armies into the heart of the country, and for half a century rendered it th... ...-defence or for aggrandizement, while religious enthusiasm recruited their armies, and opened to them the treasures of their subjects. Of the multitud... ...he contributions which flowed into the exche- quer of the princes, and the armies which marched to the field; and, in the ardent excite- ment produced... ...ace left destitute; its many independent princes found it easy to assemble armies, and afterwards, for the sake of gain, or the interests of party, hi... ...mediately com- menced new levies in the Upper Palatinate, and enlisted the disbanded troops of the Union. A new army of 20,000 men was soon assembled ... .... But, in truth, both Mansfeld and Duke Christian had, from want of money, disbanded their armies, and Count Tilly had no enemy to dread. Why, then, s... ... his troops in Hungary, Mansfeld sold his artillery and baggage train, and disbanded his soldiers. With a few follow- ers, he proceeded through Bosnia... ...tively preparing an expedition into Ger- many, and the greater part of the disbanded Imperialists enlisted under their banners. The Emperor’s concessi... ...with his flying corps, advanced towards Bohemia, where Ernest Odowalsky, a disbanded captain, who, after being disabled in the imperial service, had b...

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... on the Confederate side, and was author of the tactics first used by both armies. Lieutenant Theodric Porter, of the 4th infantry, was killed while o... ...ack. I had now been in battle with the two leading command- ers conducting armies in a foreign land. The contrast be- tween the two was very marked. G... ...were two reasons for this. Both General Scott and General T aylor had such armies as are not often got together. At the battles of Palo Alto and Resac... ...en agreed to, designating the limits beyond which troops of the respective armies were not to go during its con- tinuance. Our party knew nothing abou... ...o submission to the laws of the land; that if the North undertook to raise armies to go south, these armies would have to march over the dead bodies o... ... the regular army, with the exception of the staff corps, and no- tify the disbanded officers that they would receive no com- pensation while the war ...

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... which decides the fate of peoples lies not in the conquerors, nor even in armies and battles, but in something else. The French historians, describin... ...g differ- ent stages of the last two or three days’ march. They are almost disbanded. Scarcely a quarter of the soldiers remain with the standards of ... ...Peace – Book Fourteen CHAPTER XVII THE MOVEMENTS of the Russian and French armies during the campaign from Moscow back to the Niemen were like those i... ...s. At first while they were still moving along the Kaluga road, Napoleon’s armies made their presence known, but later when they reached the Smolensk ... ... it is that the French were not all captured or de- stroyed when our three armies surrounded them in superior numbers, when the disordered French, hun...

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... proposes even that the Soldiery, having come to such a pass, be forthwith disbanded, the whole Two Hundred and Eighty Thousands of them; and organise... ... Sixth of August,’ has been devised for that. In- spectors shall visit all armies; and, with certain elected corpo- rals and ‘soldiers able to write,’... ...as neither burst up in universal si- multaneous delirium; nor been at once disbanded, put an end to, and made new again. It must die in the chronic ma... ... fly? Our loyal Gardes-du-Corps, ever since the Insurrection of Women, are disbanded; gone to their homes; gone, many of them, across the Rhine toward... ... of Liberty. For the rest, those Centre Grenadiers of the Observatoire are disbanded,— yet indeed are reinlisted, all but fourteen, under a new name, ... ...ommissioners also shall go forth on all sides; the People be exhorted; the Armies be increased; care taken that the Commonweal suffer no damage.—And n... ...nexecutable. King’s Ships lie rotting in harbour, their officers gone; the Armies disorganised; robbers scour the highways, which wear down unrepaired... ...so scandalous is scandal. He drives now, with his de Stael, rapidly to the Armies, to the Frontier Towns; produces rose-coloured Reports, not too cred... ...- fore, with infinite debate, let Brissac and King’s Guard be dis- banded. Disbanded accordingly they are; after only two months of existence, for the...

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...hirteen or, if you please, into three or four independent governments—what armies could they raise and pay—what fleets could they ever hope to have? I... ...tion shall aids of men and money be afforded? Who shall command the allied armies, and from which of them shall he receive his orders? Who shall settl... ...much more easy it is to receive foreign fleets into our ports, and foreign armies into our coun- try, than it is to persuade or compel them to depart.... ... where regular military establishments have long obtained. The disciplined armies always kept on foot on the continent of Europe, though they bear a m... ... risk of being less free. The institutions chiefly alluded to are standing armies and the correspondent appendages of military establishments. Standin... ...ne and subjecting the public safety frequently to the perilous crisis of a disbanded army. Hence, also, those oppres- sive expedients for raising men ...

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...; general oppression; advancement of unworthy per sons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions grown desperate; and what soever, in offendi... ...and disposition of the people, be stout and warlike. Nay, number (itself) in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as V... ... their return; the great donatives and largesses, upon the disbanding of the armies; were things able to inflame all men’s courages. But above all, th...

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...sion without resistance. We all remember what Shakspeare says of the great armies which were led out to fight for a piece of ground not large enough t... ...ass of unemployed American soldiers, when those soldiers should come to be disbanded. When this war shall be over—a war during which not much, if any,... ...l who survive to return to their old homes and old occupations. Nor does a disbanded soldier always make a good husbandman, notwithstanding the great ... ...llen in battle at Spring- field, in the first action in which the opposing armies were engaged in the West. General Fremont at once pro- ceeded to car... ...stem for another fight. And so all through September and October the great armies on the Potomac rested comparatively in quiet— the Northern forces dr... .... This was so the other day in Naples, when Garibaldi blew away the king’s armies with a breath. But this is not so often. Rebellion knows that it mus... ...e Exche- quer could name. Since that we have extemporized two if not three armies. There are our volunteers at home; and the army which holds India ca...

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...ves. The tool-sheds on the sands melted away before the attack of shouting armies, and with them went the stacked ranks of Government stores, iron-bou... ...hey say, too,” snarled the Tiger, “that these men came of the wreck of thy armies, Hanuman, and therefore thou hast aided—” “They toil as my armies to... ...entury—tombs of forgotten 86 Rudyard Kipling colonels of corps long since disbanded; mates of East India men who went on shooting expeditions and nev... ...dly till Scott, putting the best face he could upon the matter, halted his armies and bade her admire the kinder- garten. It was an unseemly sight, bu...

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...reatening, inac- cessible, and intangible line which separates two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. “One step beyond that boundary line w... ...a, and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that both armies should remain in position without moving. Murat declared that negoti... ...Where, on which side, was now the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?” he asked himself and could not answer. “Can something bad have hap... ...on, told them in pure, cor- rect French many interesting details about the armies and the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opin- ion of ... ... three *Those whom (God) wishes to destroy he drives mad. 346 War & Peace armies had its own commander in chief, but there was no supreme commander o... ...ing different stages of the last two or three days’ march. They are almost disbanded. Scarcely a quarter of the sol- diers remain with the standards o...