Sentence examples for commanded a force from inspiring English sources

In the spring offensive of 1849 he commanded a force of 20,000 men, based on the fortress of Komárom (Komarno), that harried the Austrian armies.

C. 53 BCE Surenas, Farsi Surena or Suren (died c. 53 bc) Parthian general of a noble family, who commanded a force of 10,000 mounted archers and heavy cavalry.

Charismatic or charlatan, depending on your point of view (the predictably hostile Saint Jerome later claimed that he "fanned a lighted straw in his mouth so that he appeared to be breathing out flames"), he commanded a force that was at first a match for the Romans.

By the end of his training, Machar commanded a force of 3,000 troops.

Lukačević commanded a force of 1,600, consisting of Chetniks from Višegrad, Priboj, Nova Varoš, Prijepolje, Pljevlja and Bijelo Polje.

During this latter battle, Barrowclough commanded a force of nearly 16,500 men, only a third of which were elements of his own division.

"This is not Baghdad," said Lt. Col. Patrick Malay, who commands a force of about 950 marines in Diwaniya.

Now he works full time commanding a force of about 220 Reaper pilots, sensor operators and intelligence analysts at the base.

Mr. Ruhullah commands a force of about 600 gunmen that works for Watan Risk Management, a security firm overseen by Rashid and Rateb Popal, who are cousins of President Hamid Karzai.

Just to the west of the Kurdish capital Irbil, General Sirwan Barzani, who commands a force of 15,000 Peshmerga troops, says that though Isis has suffered losses it can still launch attacks.

He had spent two years with the Kandahar Strike Force, before leaving in 2007 to command a force of police and several checkpoints in the area around Ahmed Wali's hometown of Karz, according to friends and relatives.