Sentence examples for combined army from inspiring English sources

In 1794, at Tourcoing, the French defeated a combined army of Austrians and English.

A few months later, however, Takauji returned at the head of a large combined army and navy.

He proposed that a combined army of French Catholics and Huguenots fight against the Spanish in the Netherlands.

The newly combined "Army of Conquest", a Nusra-led and Nusra-cloaked alliance of Islamist satellite groups, is the greatest threat to date.

Israeli troops and Palestinian militants have been trading blows in Gaza almost daily, and Palestinians described the shooting at Netzarim, a combined army base and Jewish settlement, as a response to recent Israeli military actions.

Following an extensive land campaign, and a siege by combined army and naval forces, Vicksburg's commander, Gen. John C. Pemberton, surrendered to Grant on July 4, 1863, with the garrison at nearby Port Hudson following soon after.

Because he wished to preserve harmony and because Stockton's men constituted the bulk of available U.S. forces, Kearny accepted the situation and led the combined army-navy command to Los Angeles, defeating the Mexicans at San Gabriel (Jan . 8 , 1847and the Mesa (January 9), thus ending the resistance.

Gen. Henry W. Halleck, to assume field command of the combined armies.

In 937 the combined armies of Olaf Guthfrithson, Viking king of Dublin, Constantine, king of Scotland and King Owain of Strathclyde invaded England.

The Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, on Sunday ordered the removal of a religious seminary in the Samarian settlement of Har Bracha from a government-approved program that combines army service and Torah study, because the rabbi of the seminary encouraged his students to refuse any orders to evacuate settlements.

I recall reporting on the bitter fighting in the early 1990s over plans to combine army regiments, many of them centuries-old and rightly proud of long lists of battle honours.