double march
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After a good sleep we started to put in another double march and then we began to feel the effects of the wind.
From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary
It was a double march, and a very stiff one for the camels.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
The mounted troops, who remained at Wad Hamed till all had gone south, were ordered to move on the 27th of August, and by a double march catch up the rest of the army.
From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill
Pootoollah for Mailmandah, and on our arrival found some of the troops and the cavalry had passed through and made a double march to the river Lora, a distance in all of twenty-four miles.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith
Making a double march of it, we first stopped to breakfast at the quiet little settlement of Inenge, where cattle were abundant, but grain so scarce that the villagers were living on calabash seeds.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
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