Sentence examples for acquire provisions from inspiring English sources
In fact, these ships were the beginnings of a fleet assembled to acquire provisions in Savannah for the beleaguered British troops in Boston.
One of his objectives was to acquire provisions for his forces and those of John Butler, who was planning operations in the Susquehanna River valley.
Captain Rogers led a scouting expedition from Fort Edward on January 15, stopping at Fort William Henry to acquire provisions, snowshoes, and additional soldiers.
New York was at that time extremely tense; Patriot forces were beginning to disarm and evict Loyalists, and the British fleet anchored there was having difficulty acquiring provisions.
General George Washington ordered the systematic removal of such supplies from areas easily accessible to the British, and companies of American militia and troops harassed British and German forays to acquire such provisions.
But the plans laid out no provisions for acquiring the properties on that land and no details about how much housing might be created.
Last summer, the Knicks used the provision to acquire Felton from Portland and Marcus Camby from Houston, allowing them to offer each player more than the minimum salary.
Nevertheless, a number of its provisions have acquired a status juridically more important than originally intended, a reflection of its wide use, even by national courts, as a means of judging compliance with human rights obligations under the UN Charter.
The accompanying agreement that I reviewed had all of the usual unfair provisions — the acquiring bank can levy a reserve account and change the deal any time it wishes.
Having acquired war elephants and provisions for his army in Bactria, Antiochus crossed the Hindu Kush into the Kabul valley, where he concluded a pact with the Indian king Sophagasenos, secured still more elephants, and returned by way of southern Iran.
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