He fell back to a previously reconnoitred position on an escarpment at Mont St Jean, a few miles south of the village of Waterloo. |
In autumn 1809 he reconnoitred the area between Lisbon, Torres Vedras, the Atlantic coast, and the river Tagus accompanied by Col Richard Fletcher, his chief engineer. |
The country beyond akasha had been thoroughly reconnoitred and mapped to within three miles of the Dervish position. |
On 19 January, Beatty had reconnoitred the area west of the German Bight and been seen by a German aircraft. |
With this object in view, we reconnoitred the British cemetery which abutted on the hospital grounds. |
They reconnoitred for surface fleets, and helped to guard Russian convoys. |