"When you think of an offensive, you think of movements of large bodies of troops," he told reporters at the military airfield in Bagram, north of the capital, Kabul.
Months of warfare, the sacrifice of valuable lives, the levying of large bodies of troops, and the expenditure of considerable sums of money, all seemed to have been in vain.
Word of the British military plans leaked to France well before Braddock's departure for North America, and King Louis XV dispatched a much larger body of troops to Canada in 1755.
This is the introduction of a large body of French troops into Canada, and putting them in possession of the capital of that Province, attached to them by all the ties of blood, habits, manners, religion and former connexion of government.
At 10 00, Company C, which had marched directly west toward the village of Asamana, encountered a large body of Shōji's troops camped near the Metapona River and were quickly pinned down by rifle, machinegun, and mortar fire.
After a significant advance, they turned around quickly upon discovering that a large body of Canadian and British troops were converging on them.
This constant military presence and the abuses to individuals and property associated with it not only galvanized colonial opposition to the British but also compelled Thomas Jefferson to specifically admonish King George III in the Declaration of Independence "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us".
At 10 35 an observation post sighted a column of Ottoman soldiers making for a ford across the Jordan River at Makhadet el Mas'udi, where the Ottoman advanced guard arrived and deployed its machine guns to cover the escape of a larger body of Ottoman troops across another ford 1 mi further south.
Because we have a conveniently large body of evidence to test the proposition that American troops can effectively fight terrorism inside Iraq, end corruption in their military, or force Iraqi politicians to bridge political divides.
The news spread swiftly to the troops, and first Fabius Valens, commander of a legion, rode up next day with a large body of horsemen and saluted Vitellius as emperor.
