Sentence examples for native contingents from inspiring English sources

Deserted by their native contingents and cut off by Carthaginian cavalry, among which the Numidian prince Masinissa rendered conspicuous service, the Roman generals were killed and their troops destroyed (211).

Corippus gives extraordinary numbers for the native contingents provided by each chief: 30,000 for Cutzinas, 100,000 for Isfidaias, and 12,000 under Iaudas's brother.

The Portuguese force was a native contingent led by European officers under João Teixeira Pinto, a veteran with experience fighting in Africa.

I asked him about his ship's namesake, about Dyobha and the other members of the Native Labour Contingent.

They were members of the South African Native Labour Contingent, a corps of twenty-one thousand black men recruited by the Allies to load and unload cargo in French ports, to quarry and build roads, to cut timber and repair railways.

Around the park, there were also some black and Latino people who weren't affiliated with unions, as well as a trio carrying a sign identifying themselves as the "Native American Contingent".

Bradstreet set out from Fort Schlosser in early August 1764 with about 1,200 soldiers and a large contingent of Native allies enlisted by Sir William Johnson.

In addition to nearly three hundred scientists, it drew a sizable contingent of native Arctic residents — reindeer herders, subsistence hunters, and representatives of groups like the Inuvialuit Game Council.

But while federal recognition certainly has its benefits, a sizable and vocal contingent of Native Hawaiians have boycotted the election process and made perfectly clear they are not interested in any such relationship with the U.S. Rather than a so-called nation-within-a-nation, this group is fighting for reinstating the Hawaiian kingdom and parting ways with the U.S. government entirely. .

This type of evolutionary change within remnant populations is contingent upon native species having the demographic and genetic resources necessary to evolve in response to the exotic invader before going locally extinct (Strauss et al. 2006).

In early December the khagan led the Turgesh army, 30,000 strong and comprising contingents from virtually every native ruler of Transoxiana and Upper Tokharistan, south.