"band" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In some villages, where the headman is an enthusiast for the pastime, a trained band performs weird and wonderful step dances to the sound of the drum.
- Much of the work was done by volunteer labour, organized by the trained bands and the livery companies.
- Previously the King had the sole right to appoint the Lord Lieutenants, who were in charge of the county militias (also known as the trained bands).
- Local trained bands often had divided loyalties or refused to serve outside their own counties.
- The drift of this bloody message was ordered to be read out to the trained bands by the camp's chaplain next sermon.
- They had the sympathies of most of the large towns, where the trained bands, drilled once a month, provided cadres for new regiments.
- He was appointed colonel of the blue regiment of the trained bands on 31 March 1689, and on 19 April a commissioner for managing the customs.
- With hindsight, we can see that those guildsmen and trained bands embody the new, commercial world that was to supplant the feudal one of Charles.
- The Commissioners were to assemble the trained bands and summon Quarter Sessions to decide on a method of raising money to pay the soldiers.
- A company of musketeers and two trained bands were brought up to hold off the advancing Nantwich force.
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