To you, sergeant, I give a commission as officer.
You will take that rank at once, and will be a supernumerary in your regiment till a vacancy occurs.

Such promotion has been well and worthily won by you both." Without delay an advance was ordered against Oppenheim.

It lay on the Imperialist side of the Rhine.

Behind the town stood a strong and well fortified castle upon a lofty eminence.

Its guns swept not only the country around it, but the ground upon the opposite side of the river.
There, facing it, stood a strong fort surrounded by double ditches, which were deep and broad and full of water.