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Example sentences for "battle array"

  • After this, the king of the Macedonians rode back again, and Aristides went to Pausanias's tent and told him; and they sent for the rest of the captains and gave orders that the army should be in battle array.

  • He gave orders that those troops who were in front should gather together and appear to be forming in battle array, while those who were behind pitched their palisades and fortified a camp.

  • On the next day appeared Timoleon with his troops in battle array.

  • First went the four-horse chariots in terrible pomp, all drawn up in battle array, while next to them followed ten thousand hoplites with white shields.

  • But all the rest of the army went in battle array on the north side, so that the last of that multitude reached to the west side of the city.

  • Then all the children of Israel rising up out of the places where they were, set their army in battle array, in the place which is called Baalthamar.

  • And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the morning, and went out with all the army of the city, and set it in battle array, toward the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambush behind his back.

  • Next marched a hundred of the mercenary soldiers, as a bodyguard for Dion, while the rest of the men were led on by their officers in battle array.

  • Dion therefore prepared to renew the engagement, drew out his men in battle array, and addressed them in encouraging terms.

  • Egmont, who was not the man, on that occasion at least, to build a golden bridge for a flying enemy, crossed the same stream just above the town, and drew up his whole force in battle array.

  • Leaving his troops drawn up in battle array, he returned to La Fere for the remainder of his army, and to complete his preparations.

  • When drawn up in battle array it covered a league and a half of ground, while three hours were required to make its circuit on horseback.

  • The convent of the Filles Saint Thomas was the headquarters of the sectionaries, before which they had seven or eight hundred men in battle array.

  • He ranged his force in battle array, and approaching the artillerymen, induced them to join the Marseillais with their pieces.

  • The Gauls straightway set themselves to oppose him, and disposing their troops in battle array came to close quarters with him.

  • It was too late to take to the swift ships, but they set themselves in battle array as the enemy burst upon them.

  • All was noise and confusion as he arrived, for both hosts were setting themselves in battle array, army against army.

  • This daunting figure advanced boldly into the plain, between the two armies drawn up in battle array, and in a great voice cried out: "Why are ye come out to set your battle in array?

  • When the royal cavalcade passed by the chivalry of the Duke del Infantado, which was drawn out in battle array, the queen made a reverence to the standard of Seville, and ordered it to pass to the right hand.

  • Marching on with his army in battle array, he came near the suburb of Hadrianople, where he pitched his camp, strengthening it with a rampart of palisades, and then impatiently waited for Gratian.

  • From hence they marched with speed to Constantinople in battle array, from fear of ambuscades; being eager to make themselves masters of its ample riches, and resolved to try every means to take that illustrious city.

  • Caesar, perceiving that they persisted in their resolution, kept twenty cohorts in battle array, and, measuring out ground there for a camp, ordered it to be fortified.

  • In the meantime the legions were approaching, and several messengers arrived with notice to our men and the enemy that the [Roman] general was near at hand, with his forces in battle array.

  • He immediately called off his legions from the work, and put them in battle array.

  • This morning early, Lee and Meade confronted each other in battle array, and no one doubts a battle is in progress to-day this side of the Rapidan.

  • At the last accounts the two armies, yesterday, were drawn up in battle array, facing each other.

  • Lee and Meade have their armies daily drawn up in battle array, and an engagement may be expected.

  • Lee and Meade have been facing each other two or three days, drawn up in battle array, and a decisive battle may have occurred ere this.

  • This they accordingly did; and when all the troops had effected the passage, they were drawn up in battle array on the plain.

  • He drew up his foot-soldiers in battle array, and ordered them to stand by their arms, while he himself advanced, at the head of the horsemen, toward the river.

  • As soon as a sufficient number were assembled, they were at once marshaled in battle array, and, descending from the mountains, they made a furious onset upon the intrenchments of the enemy.

  • Caesar made it known that he was willing to accept their submission, and drawing up his troops in battle array, with the Eagle standards around him, he watched the whole Gallic army march past him.

  • While the army was being arranged in battle array, twenty English horsemen came riding toward them, and one of them asked if Earl Tostig was present.

  • Upon the fields without he arranged his men in battle array, and raised his standards.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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