Sentence examples for principal army from inspiring English sources

Before pushing on to the capital, he turned to attack the Mexicans on the Acapulco road and on August 20 captured Santa Anna's principal army at Churubusco.

At that time it had only a scattering of Chinese settlers, and in the 8th century when Datong first appeared as the name of the principal army quartered in the area it was the centre of an extensive program of military colonization.

Knowledge of discontent within the ranks in New Jersey prompted the British in New York to make two attempts to reach the principal army base at Morristown.

The latter Howe saw as attractive, since Washington was then just north of the city: Howe wrote that he was "persuaded the Principal Army should act offensively [against Philadelphia], where the enemy's chief strength lies".

A battle or a siege not only would end in defeat, they reasoned, but might also annihilate the principal Confederate army in the Western Theater.

This detachment was a serious matter, because it weakened by more than 10percentnthehe strength of the principal Confederate army in Virginia and carried still further a deplorable if unescapable policy of scattering the troops that defended the frontier p10 state and the capital city.

He finally routed the principal remaining armies, some 5,000, on April 5, 1818, at the Battle of Maipú.

The lance was carried by the cavalry of all the principal European armies through the 19th century, largely because there was no rigorous test of its effectiveness in the face of long-range musket or rifle fire.

"France is the principal target for an army of terrorists of unlimited means.

David E. Johnson believes instead that the principal causes were internal: army culture and bureaucracy, and their combined impact on the development of weapons and doctrine.

France is the principal target of an army of terrorists with unlimited means … and a desire, which they have expressed clearly and unceasingly, to strike us.