counteracting

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Troops were able to break up the demonstration by deliberately marching and countermarching until they had pushed everybody out of the square.

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Look again, and millions of men are marching and countermarching in com mand of skilled officers.

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Fort Wayne ended the excursion; the Davis special rushed away, abandoning its halting and countermarching course across the plains, and sped like an arrow for Manhattan and rest.

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West Point is primarily associated in the public mind with rigidly erect, flawlessly neat, machinelike companies of cadets marching and countermarching over their parade ground on the Hudson Palisades.

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Now Cornwallis, finding that he could not catch "the boy," and having a wholesome respect for Wayne, stopped his marching and countermarching, and retreated to Williamsburg by way of Richmond and the York peninsula.

From Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools by Blaisdell, Albert F.