Commandoes [noun]

Several instances have proved the people are determined to relinquish the barbarous system of commandoes for stealing cattle.

The Court will have no doubt that there were two commandoes there.

However, the balloon reports the presence of laagers of ten commandoes in sight.

The commandoes on our side of the river were extended to keep pace with the enemy's movements on the other.

Instead of finding our own commandoes here, we found the place occupied by a large British force.

For a few days there was a hurrying to and fro of commandoes, and then one morning De Wet's laager was seen to have disappeared.

In the retreat the Free State and the Transvaal commandoes took different directions, myself remaining with the latter.

The Governments retreated by train to Nelspruit, and thence to Hectorspruit, the commandoes following by rail and road.

All the commandoes of the Hunt seem to have forgathered here and to be having a day off.

In doing this the commandoes could requisition—loot, as some would say—what they required.