Sentence examples for assembling armies from inspiring English sources

When peace with England broke down and Bonaparte was assembling armies along the Channel coast, Ney asked for employment and was given command of the VI Army Corps.

"There was a lot more money in assembling army rifles than working as an apprentice electrician," Mr. Scalise said.

The Scots and the King both assembled armies and, after the two Bishop's Wars of 1639 and 1640, the Scots emerged the victors.

The Cologne War, similar to the Dutch Revolt, was not a war of assembled armies facing each other on a field, but a war of artillery sieges.

Even though the UN is providing a multinational task force of assembled armies, before they let in aid workers and ground staff, outbreaks of violence are still common in South Sudan.

Combs assembled armies to tackle the streets of New York with fliers or march with picket signs and flags (rap labels, especially, relied on street team marketing — a tactic still widely used today across genres).

The domestication of horses, and their use to pull vehicles, had begun in Britain by 2500 BC; by the time of the Roman conquest of Britain, British tribes could assemble armies which included thousands of chariots.

The Cologne War, similar to the Dutch Revolt in that respect, was also a war of sieges, not of assembled armies facing one another on the field of battle, nor of maneuver, feint, and parry that characterized wars two centuries earlier and later.

The assembled army proclaimed him king, and his friends adorned him with the diadem.

The Taliban's ability to infiltrate this hastily assembled army reveals the excessive optimism of this policy.

In order to win the support of the Greek city-states, whose resistance to subjugation presented the chief stumbling block to the formation of a Hellenistic monarchy, he announced to his assembled army that all the Greeks should be free, autonomous, and ungarrisoned.