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Example sentences for "considerable force"

  • On Wednesday morning Sir Redvers Buller reported a considerable force of the enemy still on and under Bulwana Mountain, to the east of Ladysmith.

  • The Venetians attempted to take Bologna, and having armed the emigrants, and united to them a considerable force, introduced them into the city by night through one of the common sewers.

  • In revenge for this, Douglas despatched Thomas Halliburton and Patrick Hepburn, each with a considerable force, to invade Northumberland.

  • However, he brought Dunbar's wife and family, and a considerable force of his retainers, safely across the border.

  • General Wright was sent down the coast with a considerable force, and in March occupied Fernandina and Jacksonville, Fla.

  • When Lord Roberts entered the Transvaal he left behind him a considerable force to teach the New Colony its duties.

  • The news of this event soon reached the king of Hungary; who, calling together a considerable force, marched to avenge the death and pillage of his subjects.

  • The enemy assembled a considerable force at this point, and Lieut.

  • Tyler Mountain behind Tyler Creek was, as formerly, the place at which the enemy was posted to make a stand against our further progress, though he had no considerable force on the south side of the river at the mouth of Scary Creek.

  • We had heard for some days the news of the assembling of a considerable force of Confederate militia at Fayette C.

  • D'Aunay and his men again attempted to scale the walls, but were forced to retire with a considerable force.

  • The Paraguayans hated the Buenos Aireans with an intensity born of ignorance and isolation, and a considerable force of militia assembled for the defence of Asuncion.

  • He himself joined Lopez, the caudillo of Santa Fe, while he left behind a considerable force of his gauchos to threaten the city from the south.

  • Flores had been exiled and joined the Argentine army, but in 1863 he obtained aid in Buenos Aires and disembarked upon the Uruguayan coast with a considerable force.

  • Sultan Harun, it appeared, on quitting Niurnia, had collected a considerable force, and had descended to the plains in the direction of Abu Haraz.

  • On the second day of November, Jackson learned that a considerable force of the enemy was gathered at Tallushatchee, an Indian town about ten miles from the Ten Islands.

  • The Indians were in considerable force, and despite the courage and determination of the whites the Creeks got the best of the affair, killing Colonel McGrew and three of his men, and putting the rest of the force to flight.

  • The rebels still maintained a considerable force of infantry and cavalry in the State of Mississippi, threatening the river, whose navigation had become to us so delicate and important a matter.

  • Quite a considerable force of the enemy was assembled in our front, near Tuscumbia, to resist our advance.

  • General Burnside was known to have reached Hampton Roads from the Southern coast with a considerable force, and the direction which his flotilla now took would show the design of the Federal authorities.

  • A considerable force of the enemy was advancing up the turnpike from Fredericksburg, to fall upon his right flank, and upon his rear in case he moved beyond Chancellorsville.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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