stand of arms

Contracts were awarded to private manufacturers to produce 12,000 stands of arms.

General Gage also sent 300 stands of arms and two cannons.

They took the small cutter and eight stand of arms and ammunition.

The Royalists lost their two cannons and five hundred stand of arms.

The Legion was able to draw on Federal stands of arms.

His stand of arms consisted of more than three thousand rare pieces.

To the defense on land, the ship contributed two nine-pounder cannon and 18 stands of arms.

Stands of arms by the tens of thousands.

She had 1200 stand of arms on board and had been sailing from Leghorn to Alexandria.

Colonel Clay was wounded and captured along with a significant part of his command, 100 horses and 200 stand of arms.

Forming up the cavalry, he charged into Sumter's unprepared camp, quickly gaining control of the stands of arms.

I remember a long gallery of rusting stands of arms, and how I hesitated between my crowbar and a hatchet or a sword.

The Federal reports of this action stated that the regiment, with 360 stand of arms, was captured without the loss of a man by the Federal troops.

Besides the two field pieces mentioned by Tarleton, six hundred men, eight hundred stand of arms, and thirty-five baggage waggons, fell into the hands of the Americans.

In addition, the ships carried over 6,000 stands of arms and large quantities of other military stores with which to arm the Irish irregular forces that they expected to meet.

Hogarth's engraving of A Stand of Arms, Musical Instruments, Etc. served as the subscription and lottery ticket.

Among the ordnance stores abandoned by the Confederates were 1,629 stand of arms, a large stock of quartermaster and commissary stores, and 13,000 rounds of ammunition.

On January 7, 1815, Adair traveled to New Orleans and requested that the city's leaders lend him several stands of arms from the city armory to arm his militiamen.

The enterprise was successful in every particular, and ninety-seven barrels of powder, sixty stand of arms and sixteen pieces of cannon were taken and removed to a place of safety.

According to an article written later by General Longstreet, the Confederates "...captured many thousand stand of arms, 52 pieces of artillery, large quantities of supplies, and General Reynolds."

"Lieutenant Beatty tells me that we have taken fourteen pieces of good ordnance, seven hundred stand of arms, tents, rum, cheese, wine, and a number of other articles most agreeable to recount.

We got eighty-four stand of arms, chiefly English muskets and bayonets, one hundred horses, with new saddles and bridles, all English too, with a good deal of ammunition and baggage.

Two thousand stand of arms, as they count, are foraged in this way; and some four hundred head of new Prisoners; and, on the whole, such a terror and damp is struck through the Aristocrat heart, as all but Patriotism, and even Patriotism were it out of this agony, might pity.