Sentence examples for command of soldiers from inspiring English sources

Advance Wars puts you in command of soldiers, tanks, battleships and other dangerous things and asks you to win a series of tricky battles.

Violence attributed to southerners wanting to secede from largely Buddhist Thailand and join their fellow Muslims in Malaysia had been dwindling, so much so that Mr Thaksin declared the insurgency at an end in 2002, then abolished the joint command of soldiers and police designed to tackle it and shuffled the local army commanders several times.

His initial efforts were proving successful when Captain Lorenzo de Godoy arrived in Champoton at the command of soldiers despatched there by Montejo the Younger.

Late in life, Bierce described his military service in these terms: It was once my fortune to command a company of soldiers – real soldiers.

An army lieutenant colonel in command of 60 soldiers declared a mutiny today in an effort to press President Alberto K. Fujimori to resign.

Three years later, he traveled with his pregnant wife to Fort Bliss, an Army post in Texas, where he was soon given command of 200 soldiers training for combat in Vietnam, where he expected to be sent.

I saw with my own eyes on that day innocent people being shot dead and those who were in command of the soldiers who fired those shots should be accountable".

In all, he wanted a combined command of 175,000 soldiers, equivalent to 44 battalions "to give us a substantial and hard-hitting offensive capability on the ground to convince" the Vietnamese insurgent forces "they cannot win".

Within hours of the raid, Mr. Chalabi's lawyers had shot off a letter to the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, and the director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, condemning what they called a "tawdry action" which they said was "committed by Iraqi policemen under the command of United States soldiers and several men who were identified as part of the F.B.I. and C.I.A".

Peng himself was placed in command of 175,000 soldiers, organized as the "Northwest Field Army", most of which had been under the command of He Long during the war against Japan.

A force under his command of ten soldiers and two civilian guides with the 6th Infantry in three Dodge touring cars surprised three of Villa's men during a foraging expedition, killing Julio Cárdenas and two of his guards.