Sentence examples for troops took place from inspiring English sources

In 1812 a major engagement with Napoleon's troops took place outside the town.

It was against this backdrop that the shootings of the Muslim preachers, by edgy Malian troops, took place.

During the American Revolution, a skirmish between American and British troops took place on December 7, 1777, at nearby Edge Hill.

The focus of Meier's trek through the Chechnya war zone is the village of Aldy, where a My Lai-type massacre by Russian troops took place on Feb. 5, 2000.

The Battle of the Assunpink Creek, also known as the Second Battle of Trenton, was a battle between American and British troops that took place in and around Trenton, New Jersey, on January 2 , 1777 during the American Revolutionary War, and resulted in an American victory.

The latest round of fighting between the Chadian army and rebel troops, which took place in May 2009, resulted in even more munitions and UXO being scattered around eastern Chad – even inside urban areas and towns.

Our final troop withdrawal took place last year practically unnoticed, but for several years Petraeus's Iraq triumphs have filled the pages of magazines (including this one) and television hours and the contents of a few books, too — virtually all of it laudatory.

The republic's military colors were fashioned "several weeks before 6 December [1917], when the parade of Moldavian troops from Bessarabia took place".

Washington had his headquarters in what is now Brandywine Battlefield Park, and troop movements indeed took place there.

Babi Yar was the ravine outside the Ukrainian capital of Kiev where the mass killing of Jews by German troops and local collaborators took place.

Victims described cruel and random attacks, perpetrated by government troops and rebels, that took place across the south-east of the country.