Sentence examples for from the prussian from inspiring English sources

On 24 September 1787 Jervis was promoted rear-admiral of the blue and hoisted his flag in the 74-gun Carnatic for several months during the tensions arising from the Prussian invasion of the Netherlands.

Clerical civil servants were purged from the Prussian administration.

Upon his return to Germany he received a pension from the Prussian crown prince.

In 1792 he moved to Rome on a grant from the Prussian state to study fresco painting.

The play shows the protagonists' emancipation from the Prussian code of honour and from societal conventions of marriage.

Many commanders in the west came from the Prussian nobility or from the pre-Nazi military elite.

What was left of the French government retreated to Bordeaux and accepted terms of surrender from the Prussians; the terms are always called "humiliating," but all terms of surrender are humiliating — that's what makes it a surrender.

In the span of 50 years, Japan turned itself into an industrial power, learning watch-making from the Swiss and war-making from the Prussians, and won a place among the world powers in the ghastly battles of the Russo-Japanese War.

As the paths of these characters converge, Bohjalian works to flesh out their disparate views of the conflagration, from the Prussians who can't understand why the Soviets are committing atrocities (while attributing all German atrocities to "SS brutes and thugs") to Uri, who sees the refugees as "fleeing a retribution they had asked for".

After the French victory at the Battle of Jena-Auerstadt, Bourcier was placed in charge of the several thousands of horses confiscated from the Prussians.

The situation was now critical and Wellington, trapped in some square and ignorant of events beyond it, was desperate for the arrival of help from the Prussians.