Sentence examples for preparing to advance from inspiring English sources

Stuart's forces were preparing to advance in order to screen Lee's march north toward Gettysburg.

So now Europe is preparing to advance by stealth yet again.

In the critical situation after the Battle of Pavia, when the army of Charles V was preparing to advance south, Guicciardini conveyed to the pope much advice, and in January 1526 he was called to Rome.

The uprising was easily quashed, and the emperor was banished, but two years later he escaped and again marshaled his forces, preparing to advance on the imperial capital at Kyōto.

Convinced the Union was preparing to advance down the Mississippi River in September 1861, Polk decided Columbus, Ky., was a more defensible position than the one he occupied in Tennessee.

France intervened militarily in January amid fears that the militants were preparing to advance on Bamako.

"But he had no options he was prepared to advance in support of that objective".

In spring 331 he returned to Tyre, appointed a Macedonian satrap for Syria, and prepared to advance into Mesopotamia.

As General Daoud prepared to advance on Taliqan, he broadcast a radio message urging residents to spare Taliban collaborators and ethnic Pashtuns in the city.

There seems little doubt that both men are prepared to advance the values of the right, if not the extreme right.

As Syrians wait and IS prepares to advance on Damascus, it is not clear which side of the egg-and-dart motif will prevail.