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Sentences starting with troops

Troops of Mounted Infantry were evidently moving to take up a new position at the bidding of the Master Player. [11]
Troops of horsemen in white woollen cloaks, sheikhs and Bedouins with flowing robes and huge turbans, religious chiefs of the great sects, imperturbable and statuesque, were in strange contrast to the shouting dervishes and camel-drivers and eager pilgrims. [11]
Troops were still crowding at the Yauza bridge. [2]

Sentences ending with troops

But the battle would have been lost without the guards and our troops. [10]
Only the Magians, wonder-workers, and street wenches were suffered to push their way in among the horses, asses, elephants, dogs, vehicles, and mounted troops. [10]
The weary gangs were gone to rest; a bright fire still blazed in front of the house of the superintendent of the mines, and round it squatted in a circle the overseers and the subalterns of the troops. [10]
There was one way in from the desert to the walled town, and it was through that space which Achmet and his men had occupied, and on which Ali Wad Hei might now, at any moment, throw his troops. [11]
Beyond Shamshevo, Dolokhov was to observe the road in the same way, to find out at what distance there were other French troops. [2]
They strike an unmilitary man as a very efficient body of troops. [4]
In front of Tuchkov's troops was some high ground not occupied by troops. [2]
It is due to these men that Mark Antony still lives and did not come to a miserable end at the hands of his own troops. [10]
All were ordered to report to the burgomaster at noon the next day, to be assigned to quarters and enrolled among the volunteer troops. [10]
On the way to Eggmuhl the carriage passed other bodies of troops. [10]

Short sentences using troops

Our troops had lost patience. [10]
Household Troops. [5]

Sentences containing troops two or more times

Buell's old troops, now in pursuit of Bragg, have done more hard marching recently; and, in fact, if you include marching and fighting, there are scarcely any old troops east or west of the mountains that have not done as hard service. [7]

More example sentences with the word troops in them

I can assure you, Miss Carvel," added Stephen, speaking with a force which made her start and thrill, "I can assure you from a personal knowledge of the German troops that they are not a riotous lot, and that they are under perfect control. [9]
Early tomorrow, before you proceed to business, they will be replaced by a stronger division, so that they may not prove a reinforcement to your brother's troops here if things come to fighting. [10]
I will send you a rebel flag captured by our troops in driving the enemy back. [7]
He thought they would then place troops at his disposal, with which he intended to impose upon them by making a few successful sallies at first. [10]
You and I would have fought for England and with the British troops, because we detest revolution. [11]
As the emperor withdrew with the troops, he said, "I will teach you who is master here. [5]
Those who fought with us but now were to shoot us at sunset, and remain here till other troops came. [11]
Their cries mingled with the crackling and snapping of the dry wood, and the roar of the flames, with the trumpet calls of the awakening troops, and the beating of drums. [10]
They did not wish to admit foreign troops within the walls, for during the first siege they had proved far more troublesome than useful, and there was little reason to fear that a city guarded by water, walls and trees would be taken by storm. [10]
The Mexican troops will evacuate the territory of Texas, passing to the other side of the Rio Grande Del Norte. [7]
Davout's troops, in whose charge were the prisoners, were crossing the Crimean bridge and some were already debouching into the Kaluga road. [2]
Then when the whole field was covered with smoke, two divisions, Campan's and Dessaix's, advanced from the French right, while Murat's troops advanced on Borodino from their left. [2]
It was Virginia who had the presence of mind to slam the blinds in the faces of the troops, and the crowd had cheered her. [9]
The shortsightedness with which the Protestants permitted the Emperor to remain so long in Ratisbon unmolested, and gather troops and munitions of war, Gombert had heard termed actually incomprehensible. [10]
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]
During the night which had proved so eventful to our friends, much had occurred in the king's camp, for the troops were to advance to the long-anticipated battle before sunrise. [10]
The adjutant asked whether Napoleon wished the troops to cross it? [2]
To the right, where the Kaluga road turns near Neskuchny, endless rows of troops and carts stretched away into the distance. [2]
They won that western country for themselves with no Federal nor Virginia or North Carolina troops to help them. [9]
Though the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. [2]
Austrian column guides were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds of the advance. [2]
The Imperial troops were in fact masters of the secret passage; and they had begun the attack on the Serapeum in earnest. [10]
Sleek, unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens, whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking pigs, as if to snuff the air. [4]
The auxiliary troops were encamped in divisions according to their nationality, and between them the Egyptian legions of heavy-armed soldiers and archers. [10]
The California troops went back home, and Noble remained, to help drive the stock over here. [5]
But scarcely had we begun to move, when the expected troops from Leyderdorp pressed forward, their loud San Jago resounding far and wide, while at the same time the old enemy rose from the ditch and attacked us. [10]
In no other way could the payment of troops and the satisfaction of other just demands be so economically or so well provided for. [7]
Had we stripped Washington, he would have been upon us before the troops could have gotten to you. [7]
After the charging was over, the reviewing party rode to the center of the field, and the troops galloped round them; and the Emperor distributed decorations. [4]
Pierre inquired what was being said about leaving, and the corporal told him that nearly all the troops were starting and there ought to be an order about the prisoners that day. [2]
By night, it was again a sight to see, with its great bonfires at every corner, and its troops of revellers making merry around them. [5]
Shortly after his victory, after all the important passes and strongholds had been conquered by his troops, he set out for Egypt with his train and the vanquished princes. [10]
There was a use for every one who could heave a stone or flourish a sword; and when he thought over the number of his troops he believed he might succeed in holding the building for some considerable time. [10]
The pioneer went up to the table, where sat the general of the troops that had just returned victorious from Ethiopia, and several other officers of high rank, There was a place vacant next to the general. [10]
Our enormous forces, undoubtedly superior to Napoleon's, were concentrated in one place, the troops inspired by the Emperors' presence were eager for action. [2]
Franklin saw Grant tumble from his horse drunk, while reviewing troops in New Orleans. [5]
About supplies of troops, my general idea is that all from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas, not now elsewhere, be left to Fremont. [7]
Nevertheless the Hebrew troops were twice their number. [10]
Poor, pale, emaciated troops were those who obeyed the leaders' call, but not a man was absent and each stood ready to give his life for the deliverance of the city and his family. [10]
All night long troops were moving past the inn. [2]
If half our troops were in Philadelphia, the enemy could take it, because he would not fear to leave the other half in his rear; but with the whole of them here, he dares not leave them in his rear. [7]
Without the auxiliary troops we shall be hopelessly lost, but with them victory is not impossible. [10]
Virginia had no troops to send us, and her men were fighting barefoot with Washington against the armies of the British king. [9]
As the silent troops reached the neighborhood of Allertssohn's house, the clock in the church-steeple slowly struck twelve, and directly after the alarm-bell began to sound from the tower of Pancratius. [10]
But the French troops quite rightly did not consider that this suited them, since death by hunger and cold awaited them in flight or captivity alike. [2]
Perhaps, if German troops occupied New England and New York, our own mental barometer might be lower. [9]
I brought the troops notwithstanding, and yet there was Union feeling enough left to elect a Legislature the next autumn, which in turn elected a very excellent Union United States senator! [7]
For the future troops must be brought here, but I make no point of bringing them through Baltimore. [7]
We have fewer troops in the field at the end of the six days than we had at the beginning--the attrition among the old outnumbering the addition by the new. [7]
They decked the tree out in that ridiculous way, when the troops stationed in the city during the siege retired. [10]
Seeing that he took up so little space, I could believe the story, then, that ten thousand troops went to St. Peter's, once, to hear mass, and their commanding officer came afterward, and not finding them, supposed they had not yet arrived. [5]
It is gratifying to know that the patriotism of the people has proved equal to the occasion, and that the number of troops tendered greatly exceeds the force which Congress authorized me to call into the field. [7]
Allow no one to enlist colored troops, except upon orders from you, or from here through you. [7]
To be able to crush it absolutely he awaited the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from Vienna, and with this object offered a three days' truce on condition that both armies should remain in position without moving. [2]
There were troops to be seen everywhere, in front and to the right and left. [2]
If we were to arm them, I fear that in a few weeks the arms would be in the hands of the rebels; and, indeed, thus far we have not had arms enough to equip our white troops. [7]
Ameni is ready to act, Paaker is to-day collecting his troops, to-morrow he will assist at the feast of the Valley, and the next day he goes to Syria. [10]
At that very time, at ten in the morning of the second of September, Napoleon was standing among his troops on the Poklonny Hill looking at the panorama spread out before him. [2]
For the first time, after a fortnight's retreat, the Russian troops had halted and after a fight had not only held the field but had repulsed the French. [2]
But from the time of his approach with the Roman army and the auxiliary troops of the Ethnarch of Judea, nothing more was learned of him or of Antipater, who commanded the forces of Hyrkanus; every one talked constantly of the Roman general Antony. [10]
Cambyses was riding through the ranks, encouraging his troops by words and looks. [10]
The explanation of this strange fact given by Russian military historians (to the effect that Kutuzov hindered an attack) is unfounded, for we know that he could not restrain the troops from attacking at Vyazma and Tarutino. [2]
Bennigsen loudly criticized this mistake, saying that it was madness to leave a height which commanded the country around unoccupied and to place troops below it. [2]
We have so thinned our line to get troops for other places that it was broken yesterday at Front Royal, with a probable loss to us of one regiment infantry, two Companies cavalry, putting General Banks in some peril. [7]
This state of things is continually becoming worse and makes one fear that unless a prompt remedy is applied the troops will no longer be under control in case of an engagement. [2]
First, the bath; then, while I rested, Macrinus's report; after that, the inspection of the sacrifices; then a review of the troops, with a gracious word to every one. [10]
He had left them at Pihahiroth and, if they did not stop there to give the other troops time to join them, they might overtake the fugitives at any moment. [10]
As to the theaters for the entertainment of the people and the troops, these did not meet with success either. [2]
After going through the wood for about a mile and a half they came out on a glade where troops of Tuchkov's corps were stationed to defend the left flank. [2]
She rushed to the window in mortal fear, and looked down into the palace-yard; at that same instant the door of the great banqueting-hall was flung open, and a flying crowd streamed out in distracted confusion--then another, and a third--all troops in King Philometor's uniform. [10]
Raevski reported that the troops were firmly holding their ground and that the French no longer ventured to attack. [2]
He had led the troops successfully through the deserts between Syria and the Egyptian Delta without losing a single man on the dangerous road by the Sirbonian Sea and Barathra, where many an army had met destruction. [10]
The Auditor said the testimony showed that at least half the destruction was done by the Indians "before the troops started in pursuit," and of course the government was not responsible for that half. [5]
The hay and the spring corn, of which Alpatych said there had been a remarkable crop that year, had been commandeered by the troops and mown down while still green. [2]
From that time the Spartan disappeared, no one knows whither; but the Greek troops allowed themselves to be bribed by immense sums and are still in Egypt. [10]
From early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up on the field before the fortress. [2]
On October 23 the Russian troops were crossing the river Enns. [2]
At three o'clock the royal company, in the Emperor's carriages, drove upon the training-ground of the Bois, where the troops awaited them. [4]
The locality and the position of our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone in our army. [2]
Drawn on by the movement of his troops Napoleon rode with them as far as the Dorogomilov gate, but there again stopped and, dismounting from his horse, paced for a long time by the Kammer-Kollezski rampart, awaiting the deputation. [2]
Rather than hazard the misapprehension of our military condition and of groundless alarm by a call for troops by proclamation, I have deemed it best to address you in this form. [7]
All hostilities between the Mexican and Texan troops will cease immediately, both by land and water. [7]
The troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this irresolution communicated itself to the men. [2]
Certain troops of the heretics had already crossed the borders, and our good town had to strengthen its walls and dig its moat deeper to make ready for storm and siege. [10]
These fixed upon the heads of lances and set on fire when the troops charged in the night, so terrified the horses of the Turks that they fled in dismay. [4]
Hence, running became the habit of the French troops, and no wonder. [5]
He kept at the governor of Virginny till he gave him twelve hundred pounds in Continentals and power to raise troops. [9]
The forest at the farthest extremity of the panorama seemed carved in some precious stone of a yellowish-green color; its undulating outline was silhouetted against the horizon and was pierced beyond Valuevo by the Smolensk highroad crowded with troops. [2]
He referred to the fact that the Emperor Napoleon had resented the demand that he should withdraw his troops from Prussia, especially when that demand became generally known and the dignity of France was thereby offended. [2]
To whatever extent the enlistment and drafting, one or both, of colored troops may be found necessary within the State, it may be conducted within the law of Congress; and, so far as practicable, free from collateral embarrassments, disorders, and provocations. [7]
As they passed the encampment of the troops who accompanied the sovereign, the hipparch could show Hermon a magnificent military spectacle. [10]
The commanders of the Egyptian and Greek troops, and the governors of different provinces have all alike assured me that the present state of things is intolerable. [10]
The sons of the desert flew to arms; they retired before the close order of the Egyptian troops, who followed them, confident of victory, to a point where the valley widens and divides on each side of a rocky hill. [10]
Dion, too, witnessed the departure of the troops. [10]
This letter requested the count to send police officers to guide the troops through the town, as the army was retreating to the Ryazan road beyond Moscow. [2]
When he reached the bridge he saw two unlimbered guns, the infantry crossing the bridge, several overturned carts, and frightened and laughing faces among the troops. [2]
He got aboard the boat, her decks already blue with troops, and as she backed out with her whistle screaming, the last objects he saw were the gaunt old man and the broad-shouldered young man side by side on the edge of the landing. [9]
On or about the 1st day of September, 1813, the Creek war being then in progress in Florida, the crops, herds, and houses of Mr. George Fisher, a citizen, were destroyed, either by the Indians or by the United States troops in pursuit of them. [5]
The prisoner said that the troops that had entered Forminsk that day were the vanguard of the whole army, that Napoleon was there and the whole army had left Moscow four days previously. [2]
Napoleon gave orders that the troops should form up on the farther side and wait. [2]

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