Significados de slight skirmish en inglés

In a slight skirmish, M. de Jumonville, the French commander, was killed.

Reynolds had a slight skirmish with the enemy on his front.

He came into touch with it at Boesmanskop, and a slight skirmish took place.

A slight skirmish followed, and the Americans lost eleven men, but repulsed their pursuers.

At Columbia there was a slight skirmish but no battle.

After a slight skirmish with the advanced guard, they secured the old post at the saw-mill.

The bridge was seized by Gross's brigade after a slight skirmish with the pickets guarding it.

On the Barcoo they had a slight skirmish with the blacks, who nearly surprised them during the night.

After a slight skirmish, in which Tecumseh was wounded in the arm, the Indians were forced to fall back.

Except for a slight skirmish at Guildford, the Cornishmen were not actively interfered with till they encamped on Blackheath.

A slight skirmish followed.

On the 15th of September the Egyptian cavalry first established contact with the Dervish scouts, and a slight skirmish took place.

After a slight skirmish the place was surrendered by Lieutenant-Colonel Johnson of the Twenty-eighth Kentucky, with a small detachment of that command.

And last night there was a " slight skirmish with hot words," as the Captain called it, between Petunikoff and himself.

One had had a slight skirmish, a second having shot a thief, and the third having lost a bale when attacked by robbers.

Brewster succeeded, after a slight skirmish at the wall, in possessing himself of the girl's hand; at which; although still struggling, she relented slightly.