Army

Examples

• The march, now, had to be made with great caution, for he was approaching Lee's army and nearing the country that still remained open to the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The singing arrows that destroyed the army of Crassus came, it would seem, originally from the Altai and the Tian Shan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Sheridan was telegraphed for that day, and on his arrival was assigned to the command of the cavalry corps with the Army of the Potomac. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• None of the reinforcements from Buell's army arrived until the 24th of February. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The men engaged in the Mexican war were brave, and the officers of the regular army, from highest to lowest, were educated in their profession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• BURNSIDE, Commanding 9th Army Corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Own now that you were going to join the army and leave us to our fate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• General Sherman, leaving a force to hold Atlanta, with the remainder of his army fell upon him and drove him to Gadsden, Alabama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Your army will cheerfully suffer many privations to break up Hood's army and render it useless for future operations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was conducted at once to where Sheridan was located with his troops drawn up in line of battle facing the Confederate army near by. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Burnside had moved promptly on the 4th, on receiving word that the Army of the Potomac had safely crossed the Rapidan. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We would then have Lee so surrounded that his supplies would be cut off entirely, making it impossible for him to support his army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Here he manoeuvred to give the impression that we were going to attack the left flank of Lee's army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Edward would marry her I'm sure: and there's Captain Dobbin who, I think, would--only I hate all army men. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The days of Homer were his ideal, when a man was chief of an army of heroes, or spent his years in wonderful Odyssey. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We had walked through two armies without incident. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It was then a Union victory, in which the Armies of the Tennessee and the Ohio both participated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The eastern armies did not so much defeat him as push past him, and Paris capitulated in March. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One of the first standing armies, of which we have any distinct account in any well authenticated history, is that of Philip of Macedon. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He limited the number of these traders to one for each of his three armies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The most friendly relations seemed to exist between the pickets of the two armies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Warlike Tribes have been put to flight so easily by civilised armies in modern times that such tribes have been doubted as possessing their boasted or even natural courage. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Devils gathered their legions in his sight; their dim, discrowned, and tarnished armies passed rank and file before him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The two armies had been confronting each other so long, without any decisive result, that they hardly knew which could whip. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My general plan now was to concentrate all the force possible against the Confederate armies in the field. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was a series of battles, in which the Russian armies were finally defeated and the Grand Duke of Kieff taken prisoner. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As this is written, the world is filled with the clang of contending armies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Nothing was found there but dead bodies of men of both armies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The killed, and many of the severely wounded, of both armies, lay within this belt where it was impossible to reach them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Many different causes contributed to relax the discipline of the Roman armies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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