Sentence examples for army of which from inspiring English sources

The compact formations of the Swiss prevailed over the Burgundian army, of which more than one-third was annihilated.

The "Division" refers to the 24th division of the British army, of which the 12th battalion Sherwood Foresters were part.

In breaking with the traditions of Turkish foreign policy, he has forgotten that the death blows come not from the west, but from the east – Iran and Syria, the army of which twice reached Istanbul in the 19th century.

Official western accounts long played down the contribution of Africans in the Asian campaign – allied commander General Slim never thanked the 14th Army, of which they were part – and few young Nigerians know of it.

Al Quds and other Iranian-backed groups were assisting Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, of which the League of Righteousness was a faction, in conducting attacks on US and British forces.

After doing a year of national service in the French army, of which he talks fondly, he had a brief playboy spell on the Riviera, when he dated Farrah Fawcett (he evidently has a penchant for Hollywood stars), before going to the US, where he learned to convince "high net worth individuals" that they should invest their funds through him.

Prior to the founding of the State of Israel, the Yishuv leadership anticipated an attack by regular Arab armies, of which Egypt's was the strongest in terms of manpower, arms and equipment.

An entire operational order from Tukhachevsky to Budionny was intercepted on 19 August and read on 20 August, stating the tasks of all of Tukhachevsky's armies, of which only the essence had previously been known.

The Pakistani army, most of which is drawn from flat, agricultural Punjab, lacks the skills to fight in the mountainous tribal areas.

But morale is said to be low in the conscript army, much of which is drawn from a neglected countryside largely ruled by unaccountable security services.

Even before the emergence of a nuclear threat, South Korea still faced a 1.1m-strong North Korean army, most of which is deployed close to the south and which, with artillery shells and conventional missiles, could quickly devastate Seoul, the capital.