Sentence examples for corps engaged from inspiring English sources
A mixed British, Spanish and Portuguese corps engaged elements of the French Armée du Midi (Army of the South) at the small Spanish village of Albuera, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of the frontier fortress-town of Badajoz, Spain.
After the landing at Wonsan, the US 1st Marine Division of the X Corps engaged the defending PVA 124th Division on 2 November, and the ensuing battle caused heavy casualties among the Chinese.
The Essex Scottish lost over 300 men as it tried to hold back the advance of the 12th SS Panzer Division, while to the east the remainder of I SS Panzer Corps engaged British forces in the Operation Goodwood, the largest armoured battle of the campaign.
Two and a half Prussian army corps, or 48,000 men, were engaged at Waterloo – two brigades under Friedrich von Bülow, commander of IV Corps, attacked Lobau at 16 30, while Zieten's I Corps and parts of Georg von Pirchs II Corps engaged at about 18 00.
Now the corps is engaged in an even more costly project to put right the evils of its own engineering, including restoring bends to the Kissimmee river and removing infrastructure and many experts say this restoration will not work.Much of the benefit of the huge investment poured in has gone to provide irrigation water for southern Florida's rich and heavily subsidised sugar growers.
The battle was the first in a series of defeats the French Navy suffered during the early years of the war, which bred a defeatist attitude and an unwillingness among the French officer corps to engage the British at sea.
While Manager Willie Randolph and his corps of crushers engaged in their diversionary tactics, Mets officials could have petitioned Commissioner Bud Selig to change the schedule and allow the Mets to play the Diamondbacks in Phoenix the rest of the season.
The authorities in the United States and Mexico say Mr. Valdez, who is 37, moved to Mexico after being indicted in the 1990s on charges of dealing marijuana, and rose quickly to become a violent leader in the Beltrán-Leyva gang, at the helm of a corps of gunmen engaged in almost constant warfare with other cartels.
On the left infantry from Reille's corps that was not engaged with Hougoumont and cavalry advanced.
For several months, I Corps was the nation's worldwide contingency corps, while the XVIII Airborne Corps was engaged in the Gulf War.
The role of the White House press corps is to engage this team and work on public's behalf to report not only on what they are fed by the communications team but what they are not.
