All 50 Uses of
battalion
in
War and Peace
- Though the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is always better to "bow too low than not bow low enough."†
Chpt 2
- "Well, Michael Mitrich, sir?" he said, addressing one of the battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that they both felt happy).†
Chpt 2
- The battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed.†
Chpt 2
- Didn't I tell you, Michael Mitrich, that if it was said 'on the march' it meant in greatcoats?" said he reproachfully to the battalion commander.†
Chpt 2
- At last the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last battalion came onto the bridge.†
Chpt 2
- The officer sends for Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into the water, and approaches the tete-de-pont.†
Chpt 2
- The French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the bridge is taken!†
Chpt 2
- Several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the bank by unseen hands.†
Chpt 2
- Prince Bagration ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to reinforce the right flank.†
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- The officer of the suite ventured to remark to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain without support.†
Chpt 2
- About Tushin and the battalion that had been in support of his battery all was forgotten.†
Chpt 2
- Turning to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed.†
Chpt 2
- The staff officer joined in the colonel's appeals, but Bagration did not reply; he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room for the two approaching battalions.†
Chpt 2
- The remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs in fine order.†
Chpt 2
- Our fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the French who had nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed.†
Chpt 2
- The general whose regiment had been inspected at Braunau was informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the French to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and had broken up the French troops.†
Chpt 2
- "When I saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was disorganized, I stopped in the road and thought: 'I'll let them come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion'—and that's what I did."†
Chpt 2
- "When I saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was disorganized, I stopped in the road and thought: 'I'll let them come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion'—and that's what I did."†
Chpt 2
- There will soon be a battalion of us aides-de-camp and adjutants!†
Chpt 3
- Rostov saw the Cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then Generals Bagration and Dolgorukov ride past with their adjutants.†
Chpt 3
- They are the same battalions you broke at Hollabrunn and have pursued ever since to this place.†
Chpt 3
- I will myself direct your battalions.†
Chpt 3
- The adjutants and battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet resounded.†
Chpt 3
- He could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions.†
Chpt 3
- "Do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the village!" he said angrily to a general who had ridden up.†
Chpt 3
- Overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped the third division and convinced himself that there really were no sharpshooters in front of our columns.†
Chpt 3
- The troops again began to move, and two battalions of the Novgorod and one of the Apsheron regiment went forward past the Emperor.†
Chpt 3
- As this Apsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced Miloradovich, without his greatcoat, with his Orders on his breast and an enormous tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined in his horse before the Emperor.†
Chpt 3
- "Bolkonski!" he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness of the feebleness of age, "Bolkonski!" he whispered, pointing to the disordered battalion and at the enemy, "what's that?"†
Chpt 3
- "Hurrah!" shouted Prince Andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole battalion would follow him.†
Chpt 3
- One soldier moved and then another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting "Hurrah!" and overtook him.†
Chpt 3
- A sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag that was swaying from its weight in Prince Andrew's hands, but he was immediately killed.†
Chpt 3
- Prince Andrew again seized the standard and, dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion.†
Chpt 3
- Prince Andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces of the cannon.†
Chpt 3
- In the rearguard, Dokhturov and others rallying some battalions kept up a musketry fire at the French cavalry that was pursuing our troops.†
Chpt 3
- Twice the marauders even attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a battalion to disperse them.†
Chpt 5
- The Emperors exchanged decorations: Alexander received the Cross of the Legion of Honor and Napoleon the Order of St. Andrew of the First Degree, and a dinner had been arranged for the evening, given by a battalion of the French Guards to the Preobrazhensk battalion.†
Chpt 5
- The Emperors exchanged decorations: Alexander received the Cross of the Legion of Honor and Napoleon the Order of St. Andrew of the First Degree, and a dinner had been arranged for the evening, given by a battalion of the French Guards to the Preobrazhensk battalion.†
Chpt 5
- The Emperor rode to the square where, facing one another, a battalion of the Preobrazhensk regiment stood on the right and a battalion of the French Guards in their bearskin caps on the left.†
Chpt 5
- The Emperor rode to the square where, facing one another, a battalion of the Preobrazhensk regiment stood on the right and a battalion of the French Guards in their bearskin caps on the left.†
Chpt 5
- As the Tsar rode up to one flank of the battalions, which presented arms, another group of horsemen galloped up to the opposite flank, and at the head of them Rostov recognized Napoleon.†
Chpt 5
- The battalions shouted "Hurrah!" and "Vive l'Empereur!"†
Chpt 5
- Alexander and Napoleon, with the long train of their suites, approached the right flank of the Preobrazhensk battalion and came straight up to the crowd standing there.†
Chpt 5
- "Will Your Majesty allow me to consult the colonel?" said Alexander and took a few hasty steps toward Prince Kozlovski, the commander of the battalion.†
Chpt 5
- The Preobrazhensk battalion, breaking rank, mingled with the French Guards and sat down at the tables prepared for them.†
Chpt 5
- I know the number of your battalions as exactly as I know my own.†
Chpt 9
- After the affair at Ostrovna he was brought into notice, received command of an hussar battalion, and when a brave officer was needed he was chosen.†
Chpt 9
- …when the Rostovs got out of their carriage at the chapel, the sultry air, the shouts of hawkers, the light and gay summer clothes of the crowd, the dusty leaves of the trees on the boulevard, the sounds of the band and the white trousers of a battalion marching to parade, the rattling of wheels on the cobblestones, and the brilliant, hot sunshine were all full of that summer languor, that content and discontent with the present, which is most strongly felt on a bright, hot day in town.†
Chpt 9
- Following the battalion that marched along the dusty road came priests in their vestments—one little old man in a hood with attendants and singers.†
Chpt 10
- The red-nosed Captain Timokhin, formerly Dolokhov's squadron commander, but now from lack of officers a battalion commander, shyly entered the shed followed by an adjutant and the regimental paymaster.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(battalion) a large group of soldiers -- especially an army unit consisting of a headquarters and at least three companies