Sentence examples for relief armies from inspiring English sources

The major fighting was limited to two repulses of Dutch and English relief armies.

During the almost eight months of the siege, they were forced to defeat two large relief armies under the leadership of Duqaq and Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan.

All the things that we equate with the core functions of government, from disaster relief, armies, interrogations, jails, border patrol, all these types of things are all for-profit businesses that are kind of a part of the government, but not really.

France then sent a relief army.

A successful surprise attack on the Egyptian relief army ensured the Crusaders' occupation of Palestine.

In the summer campaign of 1717, Belgrade again came into the hands of the imperial troops after a battle was won against a Turkish relief army.

In 1683 he led a relief army to a Vienna besieged by the Turks and, as supreme commander of the allied forces, won a resounding victory that marked the beginning of Turkish withdrawal from Europe.

Tilly first laid siege to the Protestant city of Magdeburg, which had rashly declared for Gustav, and on May 20 , 1631 fearing the arrival of a Swedish relief army, Tilly's troops stormed the city and conducted a thorough sack.

When the Ottoman sultan Süleyman I the Magnificent invaded Hungary in 1526, and the young king Louis was slain at the Battle of Mohács in August that year, John was accused, probably without justification, of deliberate treachery for failing to reach the king in time with a relief army.

As an off-camera voice enacts the noise of the relief column, Gove adds: "It is his father, a father with whom he has the most complicated of relationships, who then comes at the head of a relief army in order to defeat the Baratheon forces.

The relief army was broken and annihilated, allowing Alvarado to return to reinforce the siege.