draughted

The City Council had voted a sum of 3,000,000 dols. to provide substitutes for the conscripts to be draughted from the city.

Foreign and Colonial News 1863

The period of service for which the militia were "draughted" would expire December 9.

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 1877

I've lost count of the number of times down the years I've been draughted in to discuss how to regenerate a community which is often in its turn steadfastly resistant to any hint of such a thing being done to it.

Crusaders : Progress report 2008

I've lost count of the number of times down the years I've been draughted in to discuss how to regenerate a community which is often in its turn steadfastly resistant to any hint of such a thing being done to it.

Crusaders : Progress report 2008

I would think that ships probably were a factor in logistics, on the logic that this was the case in the better-documented later Norse wars, and seventh-century ships were also shallow-draughted and capable of shifting men and supplies long distances by sea and navigable river.

Early medieval armies: numbers Carla 2010

I've lost count of the number of times down the years I've been draughted in to discuss how to regenerate a community which is often in its turn steadfastly resistant to any hint of such a thing being done to it.

46 entries from January 2008 2008

If this is correct, it implies that the harbour was still capable of taking trading shipping at a useful volume, at least for shallow-draughted ships like those used by the Norsemen, until at least the tenth century.

Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure Carla 2009

A functioning harbour, at least for shallow-draughted vessels;

Archive 2009-06-01 Carla 2009

If this is correct, it implies that the harbour was still capable of taking trading shipping at a useful volume, at least for shallow-draughted ships like those used by the Norsemen, until at least the tenth century.

Archive 2009-06-01 Carla 2009

A functioning harbour, at least for shallow-draughted vessels;

Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure Carla 2009