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Definition of Battalions
1. battalion [n] - See also: battalion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Battalions
Literary usage of Battalions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"home battalions should not fall below 45560." "The Committee further beg to point
out that the Localization Committee proposed to increase the depot of an}' ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1884)
"The classification by arms is as follows : INFANTRY. 60 line regiment« of 2
battalions each. 20 battalions of light-infantry (cazadores). ..."
3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1875)
"The nine battalions which 'id Period. were now fa concentrate their power by
attacking the of the as- Sandbag Battery from both the north and the east, ..."
4. The Nineteenth Century (1884)
"The contingency of both battalions being abroad in time of peace does not seem
to have been contemplated; but it must nevertheless be arranged for, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The three regiments of guards are the Grenadier Guards, of 3 battalions; and the
Coldstream and Scots Fusilier Guards, of 2 battalions each. ..."
6. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"The duke's army consisted of three regiments of horse, fifteen battalions of
foot (eight of which had fought at Fontenoy), and about fifteen hundred ..."
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