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Example sentences for "march from"

  • Khelat-I-Ghilzai stood near the lower end of the valley down which the column was advancing, and was but three days' march from Candahar.

  • A strong division was ordered to march from Cabul, through Ghuzni; while General Phayre, who commanded the force at Quettah, was also ordered to advance to the assistance of the garrison.

  • Notwithstanding the excesses which were committed by the foragers on Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea, his army maintained its discipline.

  • The Fifth Corps had not moved into position, but was resting after the sixteen miles' march from Hanover.

  • It is a two days' march from Spottsylvania to the North Anna.

  • If this last command should not be wanted at Jackson, they were already one day's march from there on their way to Vicksburg and on three different roads leading to the latter city.

  • However this may be, the question of who devised the plan of march from Atlanta to Savannah is easily answered: it was clearly Sherman, and to him also belongs the credit of its brilliant execution.

  • Directly McClellan closed in on Richmond, McDowell was ordered, as soon as Shields should join him, to march from Manassas to his assistance.

  • Men who had taken part in the forced marches of the Valley campaign declared that the march from Frederick to Harper's Ferry surpassed all their former experiences.

  • Sigel's Corps to march from Gainesville to Manassas Junction, the right resting on the Manassas railroad.

  • Thomas also ordered General Cooper to march from Johnsonville on the 24th, with his own brigade, direct to Centerville and Beard's Ferry, some fifty miles.

  • A forward movement followed--Baird was directed to march from Astorga, and Romana was informed of the intended operation, and requested to assist.

  • This latter place is a national citadel, and it was here that the two brigades met, being only two days’ march from Kotah.

  • This little episode had given us all a hearty appetite, and we sat down to an excellent meal of roast mutton; and that over, we were again in the saddle, bivouacking for the night under a large tree about two hours' march from Dara.

  • He was now about a day's march from Philadelphia; but there was the river Schuylkill intervening between him and that city, and on the bank of that river General Armstrong was posted to dispute the passage.

  • This army was commanded by Junot; and on the 26th of November that commander advanced to Abrantes, within three days' march from Lisbon.

  • Some of those troops had to march from Umballah.

  • Some of the constellations seen when looking south in March from six to nine o'clock.

  • Some of the constellations seen when looking north in March from six to nine o'clock.

  • It commanded the only feasible line of march from Montreal to New York; and no force from Canada could therefore attack the new republic effectively without taking it first.

  • It is not a six hours' march from Cattaro to Cettinje.

  • Rumours of all kinds had for days been flying about the bazaar; but though Gussinje is but a three days' march from here, nothing certain was known.

  • We decided to convert Rosso and Effendi into baggage animals, and walk from Scutari to Podgoritza, an important town, acquired by Montenegro from Turkey during the late war, and which was but two days' march from Gussinje.

  • He will accompany you to Klementi, which is a day's march from Gussinje.

  • When this was done, the Inca ordered forces to be assembled to march from Cuzco, leaving one of the principal persons of his lineage as governor.

  • How, when Huayna Capac was about to march from Quito, he sent forward certain of his captains, who returned flying before the enemy, and what he did in consequence.

  • How, when Huayna Capac was about to march from Quito, he sent forward certain of his captains, who returned flying before the enemy, and what he did in consequence 214 CHAP.

  • This would be only seven days' march from Gondokoro, and by such a direct course I should be sure to arrive in time for the boats to Khartoum.

  • I had heard when at Khartoum that the most advanced trading station was fifteen days' march from Gondokoro.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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