Campaigns

Examples

• We hear too much in history of the campaigns and massacres of the Mongols, and not enough of their indubitable curiosity and zest for learning. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He left the war horse that had carried him through his Spanish campaigns behind him when he returned to Italy in order to save freight. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He wrote himself a history of Alexander's campaigns, and instituted the famous library of Alexandria. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But Xerxes, like Darius I before him, had conceived a disgust for European campaigns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We have found one of ours here--an old soldier of the war, who is seeking bloodless adventures and rest from his campaigns in these sunny lands. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• His pursuit of Hood indicated a sluggishness that satisfied me that he would never do to conduct one of your campaigns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• An _Outline of History_ cannot map out campaigns; but of the new quality that had come into war, it is bound to take note. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• General Sherman furnished a copy himself to General Badeau, who printed it in his history of my campaigns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These views have been kept constantly in mind, and orders given and campaigns made to carry them out. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And the military campaigns that now began were among the most brilliant in the world's history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We have already named Gustavus Adolphus, the Protestant Lion of the North, and mentioned his campaigns in Germany, Poland, and Russia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the truth is that we overestimate enormously the importance of nominations, campaigns, and office-holding. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Votes, winning campaigns, putting through reform measures seem a great achievement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The campaigns that followed proved him to be the right man in the right place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I never knew the truth until General Badeau unearthed the facts in his researches for his history of my campaigns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His contemporary history of Alexander's campaigns has perished; but it was a source to which all the surviving accounts are deeply indebted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They necessarily become in every respect a standing army, after they have passed a few campaigns in it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This, however, he said was the end of one of the greatest campaigns in history and I ought to make a report of it at once. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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