Commando is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COMMANDO in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a specialist assault soldier
• a soldier specially trained for carrying out raids
• a unit of commandos
• (member of) a military unit trained for swift raids in enemy territory
• a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids
• an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a military unit

Words related to COMMANDO

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Words that contain COMMANDO

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How to use COMMANDO in a sentence

• At early morning a small column under General Hunter had attacked a Boer commando on the Colenso road unawares and gave them a bad time, till an order suddenly came to withdraw.
• Three miles to the right, over a rise and down in a dip, they said there lay the Rouxville commando of 350 men.
• A certain commando had been holding Hlangwe for a long time, and Commandant Buis was ordered to take his commando and relieve the others by night.
• Later in life he was injured in one of the native wars and the upper arm was amputated, so that when he joined a commando he had only the left arm.
• In the early stages of the war the few foreign legions that existed met with disaster at Elandslaagte, and thereafter all the foreign volunteers were obliged to join a commando.
• Replies were received from every commando, and the result showed that there were almost twenty-eight thousand men in the field.
• The enemy, determined to drive me back or effect my capture, concentrated numerous forces on my small commando.
• It was then, after they had rallied again, that General De Wet, on the eve of the 28th of March, left Brandfort with a commando 1500 strong and moved in the direction of Winburg.
• Arrived on the opposite side we sent one of the men back to call the commando, for the river was rising rapidly.
• Towards the end of July, 1901, large forces of the enemy had concentrated upon my commando.
• De Wet found a ford where he and his whole commando passed through.
• Besides, it was then impossible to carry out the idea of splitting up the commando without officers.
• Here we met with another disappointment, which almost proved fatal to our whole commando.
• I then took the lead, and brought the commando to the farm we were in search of.
• As my commando was now very near the line, there was not a moment to lose.
• When I arrived at that farm there was no other commando there.
• I would submit that Boltman mistook the other member of the commando for Kritzinger.
• He crossed without prisoners, and everyone in his commando bears him out.
• If Jan Jonkers found a commando there, all the evidence goes to show that Jan Jonkers must have been with Wessels, and not with Kritzinger.
• A few days after this sad event had occurred our commando arrived at the same farm.
• If they did not know you personally, it was of no avail to tell them that you belonged to such and such a commando or column.
• Marais and Malan both stated that they were themselves proceeding with the commando against Dr.
• He therefore placed himself at the head of a commando, and crossed the Vaal, where he was joined by a certain number of Free State burghers.
• The PRESIDENT said they had to distinguish between trustworthy persons and untrustworthy, and one proof was their going on commando, and the other was their becoming naturalized.
• I shall pass rapidly over the first part of my life on commando.
• The commando was well supplied with weapons and ammunition, as the Delagoa Bay line brought plenty to our store.
• It was a journey difficult even for a trek Boer, and more than difficult for a large commando.
• President Steyn left with his commando for Nylstroom.
• Our commando was light and mobile, with provisions for a short time only.
• At Trichardsfontein Malherbe and I had to go in search of our horses, which had strayed, so we were separated from our commando for some days.
• Sons wept that they were too young to accompany their fathers on commando.
• It is hard to realise the amount of selfishness which generally prevails in a laager or commando.
• He was lame and had never been on commando, but on the approach of the British columns had left his home to their mercy.
• The commando kept the enemy back just long enough to give us a decent start, and then retired.

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