Term Gallery logo

Meanings of first battalion in English

We have no meanings for "first battalion" in our records yet.
Usage of first battalion in English
1
Sources said that the IRA's first battalion in south Armagh is supporting them.
The Irish Times
2
Colonel Kevin Burnett, now retired, commanded the first battalion group deployed.
Radio NZ
3
They were near the front now, for the first battalion was firing as it advanced.
The King in Yellow
4
The massive door opened and the first battalion of Cylon warriors stormed into the sunlight.
Book Three: The Final Exodus
5
In 1862 the first battalion of the regiment entered on active service in the Mississippi valley.
Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom
6
And the first battalion that ever sailed from the ports of that country was thus provided:-
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 / A Magazin...
7
It will be drawn from the Irish Army and the first battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment.
The Irish Times
8
We were the first battalion to arrive, but within four days 100 or more batteries were there.
S.O.S. Stand to!
9
The battalions were then composed of eight companies, but two companies were afterwards added to the first battalion.
History of the Nineteenth Army Corps
10
The Major commanding the first battalion has been in command until they sent this old noble down here yesterday.
The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo
11
While this was going on Midshipman Cranthorpe had formed his awkward squad to the rear, behind the first battalion.
Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis / Two Plebe Midshipmen at ...
12
The nucleus was supplied by the first battalion, sent to England and quartered on Maker Heights, in the Plymouth district.
A Soldier's Life: Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. R...
13
Two or three minutes later the first battalion, under Major Wells, marched off the drill ground in column of fours.
Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops / Or, Dick Prescott at G...
14
He stationed his first battalion here, with orders to line the river for six miles above and below this spot.
With Moore at Corunna
15
The first battalion of the Royal Mallows (which is the old 117th) has been stationed at Aldershot for some years.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
16
Here were the close-ranked lines of the Fifth regiment, Major Lestoype astride his big horse at the head of the first battalion.
The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo
This collocation consists of:
First battalion through the time
First battalion across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common