Sentence examples for armies close from inspiring English sources

When armies close in on a capital city in which a beleaguered regime is trying to hold out, the only thing that is predictable is that there will be surprises.

With Soviet armies closing in as part of Operation Ring (begun January 10 , 1943, the situation was hopeless.

Tells about last hours in Hitler's bunker with the Allied armies closing in on Berlin & Hitler's "last trim".

By the winter of 1944 45, with Allied armies closing in, desperate SS officials tried frantically to evacuate the camps and conceal what had taken place.

The Jacobite leadership had a crisis of confidence and they retreated to Scotland as two English armies closed in and Hanoverian troops began to return from the continent.

As the opposing armies closed in, Guiscard sent a detachment of cavalry positioned in the centre to feint an attack on the Byzantine positions.

At that point, with Gonzalo Pizarro's army close to starvation, Orellana set off downstream looking for food, but never returned.

Neighbouring Suriname declared itself ready to welcome refugees, and moved part of its small army close to the disputed border.The fear was of a repeat of the racial violence that has marred past Guyanese elections.

In the winter of 1776, with his small army close to collapse, George Washington crossed the Delaware River and launched a surprise attack that captured the Hessian garrison in Trenton.

Proof that Isis has created a large field army at great speed is that it has been launching attacks against the Kurds in northern Iraq and the Iraqi army close to Baghdad at the same time as it is fighting in Syria.

And Hannibal, to enhance their anger against him, marched with his army close to the lands and possessions of Fabius, and, giving orders to his soldiers to burn and destroy all the country about, forbade them to do the least damage in the estates of the Roman general, and placed guards for their security.