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单词 half-brigade
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half-brigade
9. Military. Designating a body of troops of half the strength of the full-sized equivalent, as half-brigade, half-squadron, half-troop, etc. Cf. demi- prefix 6b.See also half-battery n., half-company n. at Compounds 2.
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1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre ii. 62 Superior Officers who command Battalions, Regiments, Companies and Squadrons, hauing many vnder their commands, cannot attend to reuisite and looke into Files and halfe Squadrons.
1698 E. D'Auvergne Hist. Campagne Flanders 1697 137 The Ninth, Selwyn's Brigade posted at Laacken exercis'd before him; and the Tenth, the half Brigade of Guards of the first Line continued the same Pass-time.
1777 G. Washington Gen. Orders 14 July in Papers (2000) Revolutionary War Ser. X. 277 The whole army to march of[f] from the left, in half platoons.
1803 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 12 Mar. 401 A French half brigade from Modena had arrived at Bologna.
1886 Daily News 13 Sept. 5/7 The troops marched past, the infantry in company fronts and the cavalry by half squadrons.
1917 A. Corbett-Smith Marne—& After ii. 20 The subaltern mixed up a curse with a prayer that the other half-troop would get round in time and held straight ahead.
1970 Guardian 12 Sept. 11 The Israelis..could heli-lift a half brigade to Dawsons Field.
2014 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 Aug. 26 100 Lancers, technically a half squadron, went to England, where they were feted by the British.
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