Sentence examples for estimated army from inspiring English sources

Crassus was given a praetorship, and assigned six new legions in addition to the two formerly consular legions of Gellius and Lentulus, giving him an estimated army of some 32,000 48,000 trained Roman infantrymen plus their attached auxiliaries (there being quite a historical range in the size of Republican Legions).

His experience as a general in the Congolese army helps him to keep direct control over an estimated 7,000-strong 7,000-strongown armyhe Repunitcan Guard.

With nearly all of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard divisions shifted south for the defense of Baghdad, most of an estimated 100,000 army conscripts like this one are left manning the front lines in northern Iraq.

Hussein blamed Iran, and purged an estimated 120 army officers, most of them Shiites.

The British military has dwindled precipitously due to lack of funding and some estimate army personnel to eventually fall to 50,000 (the same size as the NYPD).

United States officials here estimated that the army would cost $350 million a year to train, equip and operate.

Isis' army, estimated to be some 6,000 strong, has advanced near Baghdad, where residents are preparing for the worst.

Herodotus estimated the Persian army to number in the millions, but modern scholars tend to doubt his reportage.

The epic describes the defense in 1621 of the city of Chocim by 65,000 Poles and Cossacks against a Turkish army estimated at 400,000.

But the hostage-taking on its soil may prod it into joining the anti-jihadist fray in Mali more ethusiastically.The Malian army, estimated last year at 7,700 men, is feeble.

Fernando Giménez Barriocanal, who handles the Spanish church's economic affairs, estimated that his "army of God" provided services to Spain's needy worth €2.35 for every euro that the church received in state subsidies.