Sentence examples for upon the command of from inspiring English sources

The future Gator Replacement mines are meant to detonate only upon the command of a soldier who is able to positively identify a potential target as an enemy combatant.

Consequently, acting upon the command of a certain oracle, they purified the island of Delos, which was sacred to Apollo and had been defiled, as men thought, by the burial there of the dead.

So we practiced upon the commands of our authorities.

His proposal was carried, but the consuls ignored it and called upon Pompey to undertake the command of all the troops stationed in Italy.

In the face of resistance, the Romans were compelled to withdraw in 249; in a surprise attack upon Drepanum the Roman fleet under the command of admiral Publius Claudius Pulcher lost 93 ships.

Marcus had also the title of princeps iuventutis or honorary chief of the equestrian order (Dio, LXXI.35.5) a title bestowed by the acclamation of the order, with the consent or at the command of the emperor, upon the heir apparent.

Later in the Fall of 1861, Union Army forces under the command of Benjamin Franklin Kelley advanced upon Romney.

Upon arrival in Malaya, it came under the command of Mike Calvert who was forming a new unit called the Malayan Scouts SASS).

Others relate that the Thracians, under the command of one Alexander, set upon the Roman beasts of burden that were bringing forage to the camp; that to oppose these, a party of seven hundred Ligurians were immediately detached; and that, relief coming still from both armies, the main bodies at last engaged.

In this last, Major Lally being wounded, the command of the column devolved upon Captain Alvord, who continued its march to the city of Jalapa, which he occupied the next day.

Initially under the command of Lieutenant General Thomas Blamey, upon formation the division consisted of the 16th, 17th and 18th Brigades, each established with four infantry battalions.