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Ambush :: Ambush (v. t.) The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait..

Trooped :: Trooped (imp. & p. p.) of Troo.

Rout :: Rout (n.) A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng..

Troop :: Troop (n.) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.

Parade :: Parade (v. t.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled..

Repass :: Repass (v. i.) To pass or go back; to move back; as, troops passing and repassing before our eyes..

Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (a.) Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.

Countermarch :: Countermarch (n.) An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left..

Regular :: Regular (a.) Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular nomination; regular troops..

Battalion :: Battalion (n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.

Muster :: Muster (v. t.) To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like..

Blackmail :: Blackmail (n.) A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage..

Rally :: Rally (v. t.) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite..

Echelon :: Echelon (n.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance..

Echelon :: Echelon (v. t.) To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc..

Reformed :: Reformed (a.) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer.

Alignment :: Alignment (n.) The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron..

Party :: Party (v.) A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service..

Captain :: Captain (n.) The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service..

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