Sentence examples for soldiers defeated from inspiring English sources

Or, worse, as soldiers defeated and captured.

Yet the ideas propagated by the Kremlin seem eerily similar to the ones which Soviet soldiers defeated 70 years ago.

It was captured 150 years ago this month, when Union soldiers defeated a contingent of Confederates at New Bern, N.C.

We all know about Iwo Jima, but who in the West has heard of the defence of Taierzhuang, when Chinese soldiers defeated superior Japanese troops in hand-to-hand combat?

After a brief but spirited fight, 7,000 Union soldiers defeated more than 5,000 Confederates in what Kentuckians remember as the first battle within their state and, more important, the first Union battlefield victory of the war.

As Jared Diamond makes clear in "Guns, Germs, and Steel," when 168 Spanish soldiers defeated 80,000 Incas in 1532, the decisive factor was the Spaniards' ability to read and write.

Working together, the Autobots and human soldiers defeat and kill Bonecrusher, Brawl, and Blackout.

One of the most elaborately and carefully kept rooms, nearly every inch of which is lovingly decorated, also belonged to a soldier defeated by the enemy within: Specialist Ryan Yurchison, who returned traumatized from Iraq, and took an overdose.

The army of soldiers defeats an army of Pulcinellas, using peas as artillery, but the doll's soldier admirer is wounded.

Now that they have lost, Taliban soldiers like him might be expected to play down their roles in the fighting, as the soldiers of defeated armies have done through the ages.

Some of the soldiers were "defeated psychologically", and were "lacking proper military preparation".