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Example sentences for "marched against"

  • Munis took Mosul, and having received reinforcements from all parts, marched against Bagdad.

  • Sa'id, son of the caliph Othman, whom Moawiya made governor of Khorasan, in 674 marched against Samarkand.

  • Reinforced by many Kharijites out of the northern provinces, he marched against Kufa.

  • At the head of an army he marched against Bagdad, but was defeated and killed before he reached that city.

  • Up till this time his work for the evangelical cause was not so much that of the public preacher or reformer as that of the retiring but influential scholar and adviser.

  • Zobair, caliph of Mecca; that of the caliph of Damascus, Abdalmalik; that of Ali's son Mahommed b.

  • She answered that, if he was confident in the justice of his cause, he must die sword in hand.

  • As soon as he had subdued the Kasshu he marched against Ellipi.

  • This speech put Cambyses into a violent rage, and for this reason he marched against Egypt.

  • Pedro Fernandez de Chaves, who commanded in Tete, with these Kafrs and some Portuguese marched against Quisura chief of the Mumbos at Chicaronga, a town on the north of the Zambeze about 30 miles from Tete.

  • Charles of Anjou, after being crowned king of Naples and Sicily by the Pope, and having secured secret advantages by bribery and intrigue, marched against Manfred in 1266.

  • Karl then suddenly wheeled about and marched against Cologne, which fell into his hands: Plektrude, leaving her wealth as his booty, fled to Bavaria.

  • Meantime the confederate kings—more incensed with the Gibeonites than with the Israelites, since they were traitors to the general cause, marched against Gibeon, one of the strongest cities of the land.

  • The same winter Brasidas, with his allies in the Thracian places, marched against Amphipolis, the Athenian colony on the river Strymon.

  • Accordingly he marched against them; and having ravaged their territory throughout, he crossed over by the pass (14) down upon Corinth and captured the long walls leading to Lechaeum.

  • He marched against it, in a freak of madness, gathered a throng of the helpless people within a great enclosure, and butchered them with his own hand.

  • Then he marched against Kief, where Yaropolk, who seems to have had more ambition than courage, shut himself up within the walls.

  • Hot with revengeful fury, he marched against Polotsk, killed in battle Rogvolod and his two sons, and forced the disdainful princess to accept his hand still red with her father's blood.

  • Such was his ability, that at the age of 16 he was entrusted with the government of Macedonia by his father, when he marched against Byzantium.

  • M82) This Sesach, in the fifth year of the reign of Rehoboam, marched against Jerusalem, because the Jews had transgressed against the Lord.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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