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Reconnaissances and raids against the enemy's positions were made with effect; and the bombardment which followed a rejected summons to surrender did little harm.

From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by

Reconnaissances are now being conducted, and I shall soon, I hope, be sufficiently acquainted with affairs generally to enable me to arrange for an attack.

From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh

Colonel Raven, our Group Commander, often carried out these Reconnaissances himself.

From With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Dalton, Hugh Dalton, Baron

Reconnaissances proved that the Peruvian lines could not be turned, and the battle was a pure frontal attack.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

Reconnaissances continued to be made almost daily towards Arundel.

From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office