Sentence examples for moving armies from inspiring English sources

Moving armies at Shiloh was a little like herding cats, he said.

There have been strategy games that let you play an imaginary general, moving armies of elves and goblins about.

Bar calls her "the foreman," and says he can see her "moving armies around in World War Two, calm and energized in a crisis".

But this is not a game where you are simply moving armies around on a map; that's the least of it.

Napoleon's military successes resulted from a strategy of moving armies rapidly and striking quickly, sometimes by surprise, often so as to prevent the coordination of the forces opposing him, which he was then able to defeat piecemeal.

In his Summary of the Art of War (1838), Jomini defined logistics as "the practical art of moving armies," by which he evidently meant the whole range of functions involved in moving and sustaining military forces planning, administration, supply, billeting and encampments, bridge and road building, even reconnaissance and intelligence insofar as they were related to maneuver off the battlefield.

Five West African countries began moving army troops toward Liberia today in an effort to end the seven-month-old civil war there.

But despite the moving army defections, the announcement of Bashir's removal came from a military that intends to take control.

In October 1952 the British declared a state of emergency and began moving army reinforcements into Kenya.

The distance from Gaines's Mill to the James was too great for the whole army to get in front of McClellan's moving army before nightfall of the 29th.

He did not move armies about or change governors of provinces without reason.