Sentence examples for baggage train from inspiring English sources

In addition, Mansa Mūsā had a baggage train of 80 camels, each carrying 300 pounds of gold.

His troops captured Napoleon's baggage train, including a massive leather trunk crammed with paintings looted from the Spanish royal collection.

The inspiration for Underwater New York was a 2009 article in New York magazine that mentioned dead bodies, stripped cars and even a baggage train.

The tribe forms into a baggage train, with attendant consultants, lobbyists, journalists and "experts", all of them "on message" and most with money at stake.

In 16th-century Muscovy, for example, cavalrymen purchased slaves who fought alongside them on horseback; in the later 17th century Muscovite slaves were relegated to guarding the baggage train.

When he and his column emerged from the woods, they found not the fort but General Blunt and his baggage train, which was escorted by troops from the 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry and the 14th Kansas.

Due to lack of centralized logistical system, the Polish armies were encumbered by large baggage trains.

In the confused retreat, the Americans captured 100 soldiers, the baggage trains of two regiments, and food supplies.

On 15 May 1800, Napoleon and his army of 40,000 not including the field artillery and baggage trains—(35,000 light artillery and infantry, 5,000 cavalry) began the arduous journey through the mountains.

At the time, the young men being drafted were forced to haul boats and barges loaded with baggage trains upstream to sustain a steady supply of food and fodder to the front.... Commencing at the departure point a man and his animal could carry thirty zhong (about 176 kg) of food supply, by the time they arrived at the destination, they merely delivered one dan (about 29 kg) of supply..

Obama, during his first two years, signed laws allowing guns in national parks and on checked baggage on trains.