The grenadier company of a line infantry battalion was paraded on the right of the line, the place of honour accorded to its status. |
Led by Colonel Phillips, it included one grenadier company and nine fusilier companies, in all 33 officers and 400 soldiers. |
Chancellor Bismarck once famously remarked that the whole of the Balkans were not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. |
By-catches of roundnose grenadier and black scabbard to be counted against this quota. |
Most of the other marines had taken up positions in barracks or in the cratered remains of bunkers destroyed by their grenadier. |
The Pacific slope-dwelling grenadier respires at one hundredth the rate of its distant relative, the Atlantic cod. |