Captures

Examples

• Our captures in all amounted to 169 guns, besides small-arms, with full supplies of ammunition, and 2,083 prisoners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The captures consisted largely of cattle, sheep, poultry, some bacon, cornmeal, often molasses, and occasionally coffee or other small rations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The whole captures since the army started out gunning will amount to not less than twelve thousand men, and probably fifty pieces of artillery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The enemy's loss was very heavy, as well in killed and wounded as in captures. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The total captures amounted to one thousand four hundred and sixty-four prisoners, and one hundred and four pieces of artillery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He knew, too, that they seldom lost much time before consummating the fiendish purpose of their captures. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• If he captures you, it will be over my dead body. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• We were successful in driving them back, but not so successful in captures as if farther pursuit could have been made. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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