Sentence examples for was left undefended from inspiring English sources

The timber castle was considered "feeble", and was left undefended when the Scots invaded in 1173.

As the garrison was too small to properly defend all the existing works in area, Mount Defiance was left undefended.

Fearing that the large supplies depot would fall into Japanese hands should they make a rush for Bukit Timah too soon, General Archibald Wavell, Allied commander-in-chief of the Far East sent an urgent message to Percival: By 11 February, the Jurong-Kranji Defence Line was left undefended which allowed the Japanese forces to sweep through the Line to attack Bukit Timah.

He maintained the high traditions of the bar, which postulate that no person can be left undefended.

He seemed to see Nato as a mafia protection racket: unless the little guys paid up, they should be left undefended.

Whether we recognize it or not, each of us is poised between two existential terrors, that of remaining unknown and unseen, our anguish and our joys without witness, and that of being known so completely that we are left undefended.

Meaning: In both worlds -- secular and even in the religious -- the child is left undefended.

Finally, the order to withdraw never reached the troops at Mill; this caused one sector of the canal, near Heeswijk, to be left undefended; as this sector contained a bridge which was not demolished, the Germans were effortlessly able to cross the canal around 13:00.

The town of Charlestown itself was entirely vacant, and the high lands of Charlestown (Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill) were left undefended, as were the heights of Dorchester, which had a commanding view of the harbor and the city.

Provision was made in the upper storey of the gatehouse for accommodation so the gate was never left undefended, although this arrangement later evolved to become more comfortable at the expense of defence.

Fort Douaumont, the pivot of Verdun's defense network, had been left virtually undefended.