Significados de several privates em inglês

A captain and several privates were slain, and the party dispersed.

A captain and several privates were made prisoners.

Colonel Murray, Captain Murray, and almost all the other officers, fell in the action, and several privates passed into the unseen world that fatal night.

Several privates who had been rendering what assistance they could, moved aside on the approach of their superior officers.

Several privates home on leave have assured us that they themselves have filled at least that number while waiting for a single counterattack.