Sentence examples for main force on from inspiring English sources

Johnson's cavalry defeated Tecumseh's main force on September 29, took British supply trains on October 3, and was one of the factors inducing Procter to stand and fight at the Battle of the Thames on October 5, as Tecumseh had been demanding he do.

Foot soldiers were replacing war chariots as the main force on the battlefield: the expansion of the major states into mountainous areas and the rise of the southern powers in an area of swamps, lakes, and rivers increased the importance of the infantry.

For deep conventional reservoirs, buoyancy is the main force on the migration of hydrocarbons; for deep unconventional reservoirs, gas molecular expansion is the main force (Gies 1984; Pang et al. 2003; Xiao et al. 2008; Ma et al. 2009; Jiang et al. 2010; Zhu et al. 2010).

The battleships rendezvoused with Ozawa's main force on 16 June.

His main force on the left bank of the Vistula consisted of between 54,000 and 55,000 soldiers, supported by 324 guns of various calibres.

The Sultan arrived with the main force on 5 August and his big war tent was erected on the Similehov hill, giving him a view of the battle.

The length of this phase (i.e., the time it takes until selection becomes the main force of evolution) depends on the interplay of multiple parameters, notably v, σ s 2, N e, and Θ.

But as the morning wore on, the main force of German defenders could not be dislodged.

The main force of its actions fell on Boston, which seemed to be the centre of colonial hostility.

Jourdan had taken Charleroi, in the rear of Coburg's main forces, on June 25, after besieging it since June 12.

The main forces on the rupture of the gas bubbles present a shifting from pressure (squeezing regime) to shearing stress and dynamical pressure of the liquid (shearing regime).