Sentence examples for armies about from inspiring English sources

"You can certainly believe it when they play Romans ordering armies about," laughs Osborne.

He did not move armies about or change governors of provinces without reason.

Clashes broke out Sunday evening between the northern and southern armies about 60 miles away, they said.

Soon afterward the young secretary acquired an international reputation when he dramatically galloped between the two opposing armies about to do battle at Casale in Monferrato on Oct. 26, 1630, shouting "Peace, peace!" as if peace had been concluded.

Both sides had rough parity in forces, with armies about 6,000 strong, divided roughly into half infantry and half cavalry.

Five brigades of the Pakistani Army, about 15,000 soldiers, and the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force of about 10,000 men, have never touched the Haqqanis, American officials familiar with the situation say.

This would result in the Territorial Army forming about 30% of a 120,000-strong army by 2020, he told MPs.

A much larger attack of an army of about 16,000 soldiers in the west on Dornach, however, met a quickly assembled but strong Swiss army.