Sentence examples for major engagements from inspiring English sources

In late 1899 and early 1900, the Boers defeated the British in a number of major engagements and besieged the key towns of Ladysmith, Mafeking (Mafikeng), and Kimberley.

The Dutch under Tromp won a clear victory off Dungeness in December, but most of the major engagements of the following year were won by the larger and better armed men-of-war of England.

He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II aboard a submarine in the Atlantic arena, and in many major engagements in the Pacific aboard the battleship U.S.S.

The rebel force slowly fought its way south through Lofa County, battling government troops in at least four major engagements and countless skirmishes during the next three years, destroying villages and displacing tens of thousands of people in the process.

Both Gleneagles and Golden Horn have been pulled out of major engagements this summer owing to unsuitable going, and the issue is doubly sensitive for the dual 2,000 Guineas hero now that he is stepping up from a mile to an extended 10 furlongs for the first time.

16 18, 1870), two major engagements of the Franco-German War in which the 140,000-man French Army of the Rhine, under Marshal Achille-François Bazaine, failed to break through the two German armies under General Helmuth von Moltke and were bottled up in the fortress of Metz.

It was their first major engagement together just days after the election.

It was also the first major engagement for Anzac, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

After the minor battle, a major engagement ensued, with the forces of Judah emerging victorious.

His first major engagement as a dancer was in Brussels in 1838 39.

In 1812 a major engagement with Napoleon's troops took place outside the town.