colonel eyre造句

• At the Battle of Brandywine, Colonel Eyre fought with his artillery company to halt the capture of Philadelphia, but his efforts were unsuccessful.
• Meanwhile, Lieutenant Colonel Eyre's force of 800 men landed on the east side of the Thames River, but they were slowed by tangled woodlands and swamplands.
• Ledyard resisted the attack of a British force of 800 men led by lieutenant colonel Eyre for nearly an hour, with 157 hastily collected and poorly armed militia inside Fort Griswold, according to American accounts of the battle.
• General Brackenbury had by now taken command and Colonel Eyre, one of the senior officers, had been killed, so the Stafford Regiment and some of the Black Watch Highlanders rallied under Brackenbury and another officer was ordered to bring a group up a hill to drive away the rest of the Dervishes.