The provincial troops and the militia were all drawn up in full array.

Besides the provincial troops, there were twenty-three British regiments in the northern colonies.

They were in three divisions, the regulars in the centre, the provincial troops on either flank.

The second division, consisting of provincial troops and two battalions of the Seventy-first Regiment, followed as a reserve.

The ships of war sailed directly for England, and the transports, having provincial troops on board, returned to Boston.

Fifty thousand English and provincial troops were opposed by not more than an eighth as many half-starved Frenchmen and Canadians.

In the spring, the provincial troops destined for the expedition against Crown Point, were assembled in the neighbourhood of lake George.

The story opens in the month of April, 1775, with the provincial troops hurrying to the defense of Lexington and Concord.

The people of Massachusetts formed a Provincial Congress with John Hancock for President, and began organizing provincial troops, and collecting military stores.

The artillery, wagons, and carrying horses followed, and then the provincial troops, the Forty-Eighth, while the pickets of the left brought up the rear.

The provincial troops proceeded to Norfolk, under the command of Colonel Howe of North Carolina, and Lord Dunmore took refuge on board his vessels.

The result was that, from about A.D. 150, events at court steadily lost importance, the lead being taken by the generals commanding the provincial troops.

We have sent about 31,800 provincial troops, every one a volunteer, and we have that many more already enlisted if they are needed.

Neither the British nor Provincial troops had hitherto bethought themselves of securing this place.

When the time had come for battle we Rangers moved forward, accompanied by the armed boatmen and the Provincial troops.

Col. Booker, anxious to witness, and if necessary, take part in the first encounter between the invaders and the Provincial troops.