Sentence examples for an overwhelming army from inspiring English sources

The Dwarven king Dáin leads a small group of Dwarves and men of Dale to defend their homeland and manage to eliminate the Mordor presence in Esgaroth but are forced to retreat back to Erebor to defend themselves against an overwhelming army led by the Mouth of Sauron.

He is Horatius, the Roman hero who volunteers to be one of the last three defenders of a bridge over the Tiber river against an overwhelming Etruscan army.

Thus fortified, Mr Marulanda was by the mid-1990s leading a force of 19,000 operating in large units, overwhelming army garrisons and threatening Bogotá, the capital.

One follows the protagonist Shea Ohmsford on his quest to obtain the Sword of Shannara and confront the Warlock Lord, the antagonist, with it, while the other shadows Prince Balinor Buckhannah's attempt to oust his insane brother Palance from the throne of Callahorn while the country and its capital, Tyrsis, come under attack from overwhelming armies of the Warlock Lord.

Moreover, armies facing an overwhelming opponent may have avoided conflict, leaving only a select sample of battles where the outcome was uncertain.

The national mood was soon depressed by news of successive reverses; at Sedan on 2 September the French armies suffered an overwhelming defeat; Napoleon was captured and deposed, and the Second Empire came to a sudden end.

It is regarded generally here as an unfortunate repetition of the 1932 affair, when the Japanese naval landing party was confronted by an overwhelming Chinese force and the Japanese army was forced to intervene.

A survey by YouGov found that people support deploying the British Army to Calais by an overwhelming margin of 67 per cent to 19 per cent.

A year later to the day, having chased Charles II and a second Scottish army into England, he gained an overwhelming victory at Worcester.

But for participants, it can be an overwhelming moment, generating enough transcendental experiences to occupy an army of religion scholars.

On Saturday, a few days after southern forces ambushed northern troops, Mr. Bashir gave the orders for his army to seize the town with an overwhelming number of tanks, soldiers and artillery pieces.