Sentence examples for command of the field from inspiring English sources

Antietam was a Union victory only because McClellan had retained command of the field.

Dr. Cox initially declined, but was won over by Mr. Margus's persistence and command of the field.

"In the nineteen-fifties, we lost command of the field, not just because popular composers took over but because we ceded the terrain.

I assumed the command of the field".

Longstreet's corps artillery chief, Col. Edward Porter Alexander, had effective command of the field; Lee's artillery chief, Maj.

He immediately dispatched Hancock, commander of the II Corps and his most trusted subordinate, to the scene with orders to take command of the field and to determine whether Gettysburg was an appropriate place for a major battle.

Gen. Carl Schurz, temporarily in command of the corps while Howard was in overall command on the field, deployed the division of Brig.

In 1942 Westmoreland took command of the 34th Field Artillery, a battalion of 155mm towed howitzers.

The result left little doubt of Mr. Kerry's command of the Democratic field as the candidates head to a vote on Sunday in Maine, where Mr. Kerry is also considered strong, and in Tennessee and Virginia on Tuesday.

Mr. Romney's twin victories over Mr. Santorum in Arizona and Michigan have quieted — for now — what had been growing questions about his command of the Republican field and his ability to appeal to the conservative base of his party.

Nevertheless, he says, it looks like Sanger sequencing won't relinquish its command of the sequencing field without a fight.