The army commissariat had to be protected from the invading rebels. From LearnThat.org.
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat". From Wordnik.com. [Berto: Philosophy Monkey] Reference
Why should he lack for anything when he was in possession of a great "commissariat" extending as far as the. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years' War] Reference
And Colonel Starr's commissariat, even in respect to. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
The commissariat department was run on the simplest scale. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
Next we ransacked Tangier for commissariat and camp outfit. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
The commissariat department supplied all rations on the spot. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference
As the transport and commissariat are to any army, so Mr Goodwin was to us. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
The commissariat of the British Expeditionary Force is a marvel of organization. From Wordnik.com. [With The Immortal Seventh Division] Reference
"Albatross" -- a transport laden with cattle and commissariat officers for Balaclava. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
While the viewer views, his followers are on commissariat and quartermaster's service. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
"And, as I was about to remark, I had much experience in the commissariat depart ----". From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
We heard the creak and rattle of the empty commissariat wagons returning from the barracks. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
Englishmen fared worse, and, being dependent upon the Italian commissariat, they came badly off. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
In the Black Hawk War, Captain Lincoln came to cross-purposes with the regular army commissariat. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
It surpasses in power mere accession of numbers, as it requires neither transport nor commissariat. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Saracens, contented himself with his own plunder, and never dunned the commissariat for arrears of pay. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
Athenian; for the main body of the allies, and the commissariat ships, had been ordered to muster at Corcyra. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
Here was another point, commanding another supply country of great value to the commissariat, lost to the South. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
For it could scarcely have been obtained by any body of commissariat agents coming into India with the Muhammadans. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
At these fierce engagements Nicholson was present as a commissariat officer, and not, to his regret, as a combatant. From Wordnik.com. [John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub] Reference
This involved the presence of a great number of officers of the commissariat department, who seemed to work night and day. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Trail] Reference
All were badly and insufficiently fed, as much from disorganized commissariat arrangements as from actual want of supplies. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
All were crazed, and at first no sane mind was left to point out the dangers, or prepare a commissariat, or plan a campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference
Well, he was brought by the officer seeing him round to the pen where the beeves were secured which the commissariat duly furnished. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Stormberg was intended to be the depôt where stores, tents, ammunition, and all the commissariat details of the Third Division under. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Before we could resume our march every commissariat store needed to be replenished, and every man required a new outfit from top to toe. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
On account of the militia alone, the province expended £121,366, and the expenditure of the commissariat department must have been enormous. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
It contained an immense quantity of commissariat stores, three thousand stand of arms, a number of rifles and several pieces of dismounted ordnance. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
He advanced over the border, making some captures and doing considerable damage; but after a week, commissariat difficulties made him retire in turn. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Mais voilà, par un matin gris acier, on apprit que quelques fournisseurs de services en ligne avaient été embarqués au commissariat de police le plus proche. From Wordnik.com. [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference
Bhika Rathor, as his four sons, Mersi, Multasi, Dheda and Khamdar, great names among the Charans, rose immediately to eminence as commissariat transporters in the north. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
A series of debates arose on abuses in the commissariat, in the chartering of transports, and in the contracts for supplying the troops in America with provisions, rum, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Palmer, for use in the manufacture of the biscuits which make a valuable supplement to the Javanese commissariat, for unlimited rice seldom commends itself to English tastes. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
Without physical wants himself, he forgot that others were differently constituted, and paid little heed to commissariat; but woe to the man who failed to bring up ammunition!. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Our commissariat was occasionally supplemented by a delicious bird, about the size of a pheasant, called the kooran, as well as by a few pheasants, partridges, and guinea fowls. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Tour in South Africa] Reference
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