The wagon trains pulled out before the troops ate breakfast.
As the wagon trains pulled out the troops ate breakfast.
The writer in the first instance was too lazy or stupid to think out the specific meaning of and for the reader.
Remember, also, that the use of and to connect clauses leads us into the treacherous “run-on sentences”—the sentence that flits from subject to subject like an old gossip.
“They fell into the trap and so the commanding officer’s orders were lost and they remained there twenty days and were finally removed to a prison camp and there winter soon came on and finally they were released and went home in the spring.”
The sentence, in addition to having too many ideas in it, has them unrelated.
WHAT WE MUST DO
As to Words.
1. Every geographical name must be printed in capitals, thus,—