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Sentences starting with army

Army of the Potomac: You wish to see your family and I wish to oblige you. [7]

Sentences ending with army

I shall await your most gracious permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a secretary rather than commander in the army. [2]
Why is it you join the army? [9]
You could not yield to the discipline of school, where we all must learn to obey if we would afterwards exercise our authority with moderation, and without any orders you left Egypt and joined the army. [10]
Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
Mack has surrendered with his whole army. [2]
Your aunt is with him, and his dutiful son, Philip, now broken of his rank in the English army. [9]
The Prophet, or whatever he was called, was a burly, bull-necked man of hard sense, really leading a great industrial army. [6]
From thence I went on to Pelusium in the company of some stragglers from the Asiatic army, who now and then allowed me a seat on their horses, and here I heard that you had accepted a high command in Cambyses' army. [10]
When the Colonel went away they were engaged to be married, as soon as he could make certain arrangements which he represented to be necessary, and quit the army. [5]
It was a weary and famished, but still a fighting and menacing army. [2]

Short sentences using army

Then the army was gone. [5]
He didn't see the army. [5]
I shall follow the army. [2]
A whole army, Nancy! [5]
Your army is grumbling. [2]
Sasenoshky--in the American army. [9]
She was the army, herself. [5]
To command an army! [10]
Standing army. [5]

Sentences containing army two or more times

As the days wore into months, Monsieur Vigo's place very naturally became the headquarters for our army, if army it might be called. [9]
The first army, with which was the Emperor, occupied the fortified camp at Drissa; the second army was retreating, trying to effect a junction with the first one from which it was said to be cut off by large French forces. [2]
That Napoleon agreed with Mouton, and that the army retreated, does not prove that Napoleon caused it to retreat, but that the forces which influenced the whole army and directed it along the Mozhaysk (that is, the Smolensk) road acted simultaneously on him also. [2]
First, the army under Barclay de Tolly, secondly, the army under Bagration, and thirdly, the one commanded by Tormasov. [2]
If Kutuzov decided to remain at Krems, Napoleon's army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he would find himself in the position of Mack at Ulm. [2]
The army of the Vendee, under Detricand Comte de Tournay, had made a last dash at a small town held by a section of the Republican army, and captured it. [11]
It said that the vast expense of maintaining the army had made it necessary to retrench, and so the Government had decided that to support the army it would be necessary to withdraw the appropriation from the public schools. [5]
But the army, the Russian army, everyone declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. [2]
By direction of the President, it is ordered that Major-General McClellan be relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac, and that Major-General Burnside take the command of that army. [7]
And, in fact, the last letter he had received from Mack's army informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the army was very favorable. [2]

More example sentences with the word army in them

Egypt attained the zenith of her power under this king, whose army, according to Diodorus (I. [10]
Then this in your eye, that if ye'll bring an army, I'll fight till the skin is in rags on me bones, whin it's only men that's before me; but woman--and that wan! [11]
You have brought your army corps to Pultusk, routed: here it is exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as you yourself reported to Count Buxhowden yesterday, you must think of retreating to our frontier--which do today. [2]
The success of your army and the cause of the country are the same, and, of course, I only desire the good of the cause. [7]
These were adventurous young gentlemen of family, some of them lawyers and some of them late officers in the Continental army who had been rewarded with grants of land. [9]
We will house you, feed you as we feed, and you shall have your tobacco at army prices. [11]
That each of you will, in his sphere, do all he can to have the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the army and navy, while engaged in the effort to suppress the rebellion, paid, fed, clad, and otherwise well provided for and supported. [7]
As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order. [7]
I swear to you on my honor that Napoleon was in such a fix as never before and might have lost half his army but could not have taken Smolensk. [2]
Send us what you may know of your army vote. [7]
And listen-- before you and I are two months older, the French navy will be in the harbours of Ireland, and the French army will land here. [11]
The army passing yonder would have been enough to destroy down to the last man a force ten times greater than the number of his people. [10]
I do not yet see how I could profit by changing the command of the Army of the Potomac; and if I did, I should not wish to do it by accepting the resignation of your commission. [7]
That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. [6]
They said we would not go ten miles, and I most solemnly believe that no one but "Uncle Billy" and an army organized and equipped by him could have gone ten miles. [9]
From thence they would cross the peninsula of Sinai, and strive to reach the Egyptian army by forced marches, and make the king acquainted with Ani's criminal attempts. [10]
Here is the world of the press and of letters; here are institutions, an army, a navy, commerce, glimpses of great ships going to and fro on distant seas, of India, of Australia. [4]
To Jim the world became a sea of maddening forces which buffeted him; a whirlpool of fire in which his brain was tortured, his mind was shrivelled up; a vast army rending itself, each man against the other. [11]
For he still wore unconsciously the colors of the army of the American Republic. [9]
You see, it won't ever do for me, a brigadier in the regular army, to preside over that infant court-martial--there isn't any precedent for it, don't you see. [5]
Anna Mikhaylovna, practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself and her son. [2]
On reaching Memphis with the wreck of his army, he found the Egyptians in glorious apparel celebrating a festival. [10]
Rostov, in common with the whole army from which he came, was far from having experienced the change of feeling toward Napoleon and the French--who from being foes had suddenly become friends--that had taken place at headquarters and in Boris. [2]
Everyone was dissatisfied with the general course of affairs in the Russian army, but no one anticipated any danger of invasion of the Russian provinces, and no one thought the war would extend farther than the western, the Polish, provinces. [2]
The Emperor was with the first army, but not as commander in chief. [2]
The Commission charged with the examination of candidates for posts in the army came with the king to the Valley, whereas they could have transacted their business just as well at home. [5]
The Emperor was with the army to encourage it, but his presence and ignorance of what steps to take, and the enormous number of advisers and plans, destroyed the first army's energy and it retired. [2]
After the junction with the army of the brilliant admiral and Petersburg hero Wittgenstein, this mood and the gossip of the staff reached their maximum. [2]
Nicholas was somewhere with the army and had not sent a word since his last letter, in which he had given a detailed account of his meeting with Princess Mary. [2]
The officers gazed with surprise at Pierre's huge stout figure and listened to his talk of Moscow and the position of our army, round which he had ridden. [2]
The Emperor sees with regret that the picked soldiers appointed to guard his person, who should set an example of discipline, carry disobedience to such a point that they break into the cellars and stores containing army supplies. [2]
Besides being occupied with his estates and reading a great variety of books, Prince Andrew was at this time busy with a critical survey of our last two unfortunate campaigns, and with drawing up a proposal for a reform of the army rules and regulations. [2]
It is honeycombed with dugouts in which the Germans who clung to it found their graves, while the victorious British army swept around it toward Bapaume. [9]
He had listened with affable condescension to the complaint of a landed proprietor, whose cattle had been driven off for the king's army, and had promised that his case should be enquired into. [10]
It was a wise move, for he found Regnault de Chartres and some more of the King's pet rascals there trying their best to disperse the army, and crippling all the efforts of Joan's generals to head it for Orleans. [5]
England, France, Turkey, will land an army of occupation. [11]
I hope you will all do your duty bravely and promptly, that you may be back in three months to join the main army in the expedition of revenge on the Massagetae. [10]
Hundreds of families whose men were in the army came to be within touch of the War Office and Aldershot, and the capital of the Empire was overrun by intriguers, harmless and otherwise. [11]
Besides this, the whole staff of the Russian army was now reorganized. [2]
Mack loses a whole army, the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archduke Karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. [2]
For the part which you and the brave army of which you are a part have, under Providence, performed in this great struggle, I tender more thanks especially to this regiment, which has been the subject of good report. [7]
Those floating freaks which were all top and drew nothing, were loaded down to the guards with army stores and animals and wood and men, --men who came from every walk in life. [9]
The enemy's fleet, which subsequently did not let a single boat pass, allows his entire army to elude it. [2]
But this rule which leaves out of account the spirit of the army continually proves incorrect and is in particularly striking contrast to the facts when some strong rise or fall in the spirit of the troops occurs, as in all national wars. [2]
In regard to which I humbly submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left in it by spring. [2]
At a moment when the body-guard appeared to be most ostentatious in his freedom from clothing the American said to his Majesty: "King, do you know what 1/60th of your standing army is? [11]
Three weeks later, when the army was resting at Napoleon, Arkansas, a self-contained man, with a brown beard arrived from Memphis, and took command. [9]
And, dear me, when she starts for that other army, you'll think there's a hurricane blowing it away! [5]
He said that when Kamehameha (who was at first merely a subordinate chief on the island of Hawaii), landed here, he brought a large army with him, and encamped at Waikiki. [5]
I had hoped when I planned the series to bring down this novel through the stirring period which ended, by a chance, when a steamboat brought supplies to Jackson's army in New Orleans--the beginning of the era of steam commerce on our Western waters. [9]
In the morning, when he went to call at Rostopchin's he met there a courier fresh from the army, an acquaintance of his own, who often danced at Moscow balls. [2]
She told Nicolas what she meant to do, and begged him to take the steward through the Spanish army to the Hague. [10]
Before joining the Western Army which was then, in May, encamped at Drissa, Prince Andrew visited Bald Hills which was directly on his way, being only two miles off the Smolensk highroad. [2]
Before dawn we were with our army again, and with us the Constable and nearly all his men, for we left only a small garrison in Beaugency castle. [5]
The Magi, however, were not deceived; they shut themselves up in their palace, assembled an army in the Nisaean plain, promised the soldiers high pay, and used every effort to strengthen the belief of the people in Gaumata's disguise. [10]
Soon the two were clean cut off from the French army, and must fight to the death or surrender. [11]
He was surprisingly well, considering everything, when we left New York, and the army medical men advised taking him home. [9]
But how shall we chronicle Bijah's rank and precedence in the Jethro army, in which there are neither shoulder-straps nor annual registers? [9]
On the twenty-fourth, we are told, Napoleon attacked this advanced post and took it, and, on the twenty-sixth, attacked the whole Russian army, which was in position on the field of Borodino. [2]
The news reached Washington of the commencement of hostilities on the Rio Grande, and of the great peril of General Taylor's army. [7]
At last here was to be a test of fighting in open field, though the French had in their whole army twice the number of our men, a walled and provisioned city behind them, and field-pieces in great number to bring against us. [11]
What to him was the well-ordered and disciplined army, among whose leaders be had numbered himself with such joyous pride? [10]
My greatest apprehension was that we might be derailed and the despatches captured; for as fast as our army had advanced, the track of it had closed again, like the wake of a ship at sea. [9]
The only difference was that the Russian army moved voluntarily, with no such threat of destruction as hung over the French, and that the sick Frenchmen were left behind in enemy hands while the sick Russians left behind were among their own people. [2]
The boisterous day was reddening to its close as the Colonel lined his little army in front of the wood, and we covered the space of four thousand. [9]
And now it was peopled, for there came from a cleft of the hills an army of buffaloes lounging slowly down the waste, with tossing manes and hoofs stirring the snow into a feathery scud. [11]
The main army was on the other side of Moscow or beyond it. [2]
When Captain Burnaby was on his way to Khiva he would tolerate no Oriental exaggeration of his army rank, although a higher title would have smoothed his way and added to his consideration. [4]
Just as one was learning his trade, or perhaps had acquired it, and was ready to earn his living and begin to make a home for his wife, he must pass the three best years of his life in the army. [4]
When the army was in the field her anxiety was ceaseless; day and night were spent in restlessness and watching. [10]
And how greatly was I surprised to see Gotz, taller than of old, appear before me in the magnificent array and harness of a chief captain in the army of the all-powerful Republic of Venice! [10]
When my mother was gone I turned towards Virginia with longing, for I could not so soon go against her wishes and join the King's army on the Continent, and less desire had I to be a Glasgow merchant. [11]
Among the prisoners was Garrett Enderby, who had escaped from his captors on the way from Enderby House to London, and had joined the Scottish army. [11]
This Mr. Scarlett was from Connecticut, had been a quartermaster in the army, and at much risk brought ploughs and hardware, and scissors and buttons, and broadcloth and corduroy, across the Alleghanies, and down the Ohio in flatboats. [9]
The whole army was extended in three lines: the cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the infantry. [2]
When young Enderby was driven from his father's house by Cromwell, he determined to join the Scotch army which was expected soon to welcome Charles the Second from France. [11]
Mr. Jeff Davis was constantly writing him to take command of a corps in the confederate army, but Col. [5]
The Egyptian army was by no means contemptible, even when compared with the immense Persian hosts. [10]
A thanksgiving service was arranged, Kutuzov was awarded the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. [2]
At midday he was admitted to the Emperor, and an hour later he rode off with Prince Dolgorukov to the advanced post of the French army. [2]
In short, it was a pernicious revival of an obsolete state of affairs, competition, and if persisted in, involved nothing less than a fight to a finish with the army, the lobby of the Northeastern. [9]
A minister of war was created, and ordered to proceed at once with the formation of a standing army. [5]
The aim of war is murder; the methods of war are spying, treachery, and their encouragement, the ruin of a country's inhabitants, robbing them or stealing to provision the army, and fraud and falsehood termed military craft. [2]
From Moscow to Vyazma the French army of seventy-three thousand men not reckoning the Guards (who did nothing during the whole war but pillage) was reduced to thirty-six thousand, though not more than five thousand had fallen in battle. [2]
Sunday morning her Voices or some instinct gave her a warning, and she sent Dunois to Blois to take command of the army and hurry it to Orleans. [5]
And by this visit of the Emperor to Moscow the strength of the Russian army was trebled. [2]
After the French victory at Borodino there was no general engagement nor any that were at all serious, yet the French army ceased to exist. [2]
And meanwhile, the very next morning after the battle, the French army advanced of itself upon the Russians, carried forward by the force of its own momentum now seemingly increased in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from its aim. [2]
The scene was very animated, for the most contradictory messages were constantly arriving from the fleet and the army. [10]
And through the varying waste of elements There passed a sail, which caught the opposing wind, Triumphant, as an army in its tents Beholds the foe it, conquering, left behind. [11]
That Major-General E. V. Sumner, at his own request, be relieved from duty in the Army of the Potomac. [7]
He intended to use this invention in the capture of St. Louis, exploding his torpedoes over the city, and raining destruction upon it until the army of occupation would gladly capitulate. [5]
What is the use of that, when a third of their army has melted away on the road from Moscow to Vyazma without any battle? [2]
With Bougainville behind us and Montcalm in front, we might have been checked, though there was no man in all our army but believed that we should win the day. [11]
The President is urgent and anxious that your army should move against him by forced marches. [7]
During the journey up the Forty-Mile Track to Kilauea, the American enveloped 1/60th of his Majesty's standing army with his Michigan Avenue and peanut-stand wit, and not always, it was observed, out of the hearing of the King, who nevertheless preserved a marked unconsciousness. [11]
An entire and unsuspected Russian army in reserve! [5]
Forced by the unshaken solidarity of tens of thousands, the manufacturers offer bribes to end the reign of terror they have inaugurated.... Inhuman treatment and oppressive toil have brought all nationalities together into one great army to fight against a brutal system of exploitation. [9]
The old prince understood from this official report that our army had been defeated. [2]
The British army, twenty-five thousand strong, admirably equipped, and supported by a powerful naval force, threatened to envelop our poor force, and finish the war in a stroke. [4]

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