Word: battalions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...proportion to the numbers engaged, said Mr. Buehler, the losses at Gettysburg were the greatest of the war. In one regiment alone the losses were 83 per cent, as compared to 33 per cent in the charge at Balaklava. A Confederate battalion was obliged to count its standards in order to realize that at one time it comprised ten regiments, and during Pickett's charge a body of cavalry lost 27 out of 36 of its horses within ten minutes...
Colonel Darling is a graduate of Dartmouth College in the class of 1885, and, besides his colonelcy, holds the position of United States Marshal in Massachusetts. In the Spanish war, he was in command of one of the battalions of the Sixth Massachusetts, which defeated and captured the entire "Alfonso XIII" regiment of Spain. This battalion was the only body of Massachusetts troops which saw active service...
...clock the Prince entered his carriage at the Hotel Somerset, accompanied by Major Henry L. Higginson, the Honorable Francis C. Lowell and Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, and the procession led by a battalion of state cavalry started for Cambridge. After a short stop at the Cambridge City Hall where Mayor McNamee welcomed the Prince to Cambridge, the party proceeded to Memorial Hall, arriving there at 1.40, only ten minutes behind the scheduled time. At the entrance of the Hall the Prince was met by President Eliot, the Fellows and Overseers...
...University at 1 o'clock today. At that hour the Honorable Francis C. Lowell and Major Henry L. Higginson, in behalf of the Corporation, will call upon him at Hotel Somerset to escort him to Cambridge. Shortly after 1 o'clock, the procession of carriages, led by a battalion of state troops, will leave for Cambridge and will arrive at Memorial Hall at 1.30 o'clock. The route to the University will be way of Massachusetts avenue to the City Hall, where a short stop will be made to enable the Mayor of Cambridge to welcome the Prince to this...
...Prussia becomes the guest of the University; and the Honorable Francis C. Lowell and Major Henry L. Higginson, on the part of the Corporation, will call upon him at the Hotel Somerset to escort him to Cambridge. It is expected that the procession of carriages, led by a battalion of cavalry of state troops, will reach Memorial Hall at 1.30. The route will be as follows: Hotel Somerset, along Massachusetts avenue, to the Cambridge City Hall, where a short stop will be made, in order to enable the Mayor of Cambridge to welcome the Prince to this city; from there...