Sentence examples for upon their troops from inspiring English sources

He sent out a circular to the generals under his command urging them to release their own versions and to impress upon their troops the need to exterminate the Jews.

In order to counter this, Japanese commanders exhorted their troops to draw upon "spiritual strength" to achieve victory.

The least a grateful nation should do is support the troops upon their return.

Why does it seem as if the leaders of this war have conveniently, almost cruelly, stopped supporting our troops upon their homecoming?

During the Revolutionary War, our Congress had to flee a number of times when British troops advanced upon their chosen meeting place.

It is currently unclear whether Saudi Arabia will deploy ground troops or call upon their newly-formed anti-terror coalition, made up of over 30 countries.

They sowed magnetic mines in the channels and seas; they sent repeated waves of hostile aircraft, sometimes more than a hundred strong in one formation, to cast their bombs upon the single pier that remained, and upon the sand dunes upon which the troops had their eyes for shelter.

During the battle, the 2nd Battalion lost 10 officers and 144 other ranks killed or wounded, some of which were suffered after an intense German mortar barrage had fallen upon the troops in their form-up point prior to the attack, killing or wounding up to one seventh of the assault force.

The secretary general told us that he believed Russian special forces were still in eastern Ukraine, despite the "substantial decrease" in their regular troops there, and he called upon Russia "to withdraw all troops from Ukraine and to stop destabilising Ukraine".

Upon evacuation, Iraqi troops worked their way through Kuwait's oil fields and set fire to nearly 700 oil wells.

He appealed to Nationalist troops to join forces with South China in a concentrated attack upon Japanese troops in the north.