Sentence examples for opposing army from inspiring English sources

Once surrounded, the opposing army, demoralized and with no chance of escape, would face the choice of annihilation or surrender.

One evening Watkins and the louse-racing champion, T. C. Dornin, were instructed to infiltrate the nearby Union picket line and gather information about the opposing army.

Grant senselessly worried that the depleted opposing army under Gen. John Hood would advance into Kentucky and threaten Ohio if Thomas did not attack more quickly.

Even when Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, he at least could look at an opposing army not so far away in Virginia.

South Sudan's opposing army factions have been stationed in Juba since April as part of a peace deal signed last year to unite the warring sides.

On the morning of May 7, however, it became clear that the previous day's attacks had paralyzed the opposing army to such an extent that it could not develop any tactical countermeasures.

With the fighting in Tripoli, two opposing armies took shape.

There are vast (opposing) armies arrayed against them.

Within days of the initial contact between the opposing armies, the Danes were in retreat.

In wars past, disease has often proved a greater foe than opposing armies.

Hitler, we're told, means to use its invincible powers to lay waste opposing armies and proclaim himself the Messiah.