Sentence examples for seat of war from inspiring English sources

In 216 and 215 the chief seat of war was Campania, where Hannibal, vainly attempting to establish himself on the coast, experienced a severe repulse at Nola.

Unfortunately, the method of administration was inadequately controlled, and the government sanctioned inoculations only for soldiers that "voluntarily presented themselves for this purpose prior to their embarkation for the seat of war".

Recovering from his wounds, the duke again proceeded to the seat of war; as a British field marshal, he was in command of the Hanoverian army during the campaigns of 1813 and 1814.

It was in pursuit of this policy that, in 1626, he transferred the seat of war to Prussia: a stranglehold on the Vistula River, he hoped, would bring Poland to its knees.

Now "Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. From the Seat of War," restored and reframed, is to become a permanent, prominent fixture in the New-York Historical Society's renovated building, which reopens, fittingly, on Nov. 11 -- Veterans' Day.

The Confederacy had long contended that it was only defending itself against an aggressive "foreign invasion," but now, in Davis's words, "we are driven to protect our own country by transferring the seat of war to that of an enemy who pursues us with a relentless and apparently aimless hostility".

The ungainly utility vehicles transformed four-seat machines of war into gaudily decorated, smog-belching conveyances for as many as 22 commuters.

And its intrepid war correspondent, Lee Miller, "beat the American infantry to Hitler's Bavarian retreat, offering Vogue readers a front seat in the theatre of war," says Muir. "She was a true Vogue heroine: her photographs were gritty and evocative, her words bitter and powerful.

The dossiers also show the seat-of-the-pants intelligence gathering in war zones that led to the incarcerations of innocent men for years in cases of mistaken identity or simple misfortune.

The dossiers, prepared under the Bush administration, also show the seat-of-the-pants intelligence gathering in war zones that led to the incarcerations of innocent men for years in cases of mistaken identity or simple misfortune, the Times said.

As a reward for his services to the gods, she provides Kratos with a new set of blades and the seat as the new God of War.