It was within the shelter of this formidable obstacle that Tippoo's army was encamped.
We volunteered to find out, if we could, which way the sultan's army was going.
Of these, only Hardee and the cavalry were immediately in our front, while the bulk of Johnston's army was supposed to be collecting at or near Raleigh.
Still, I was convinced that Hood's army was in no condition to march for Nashville, and that a good deal of further delay might reasonably be counted on.
We found this gap very badly obstructed by fallen timber, but got through that night, and the next day the main army was at Villanow.
When the cold, foggy morning of December 13th broke, the whole Army of the Potomac was on the southern shore and the Confederate army was on the heights behind Fredericksburg.
The enemy were easily driven from their field-works, and by December 10th all the Confederates were forced into their lines and the whole Union army was in front of Savannah.
They had heard that the Northern army was coming to make them free.
Certain it is that Lee's army was deficient in ammunition for all arms, and rations were scarce.
That Grant's army was in danger, and in sore need of reinforcements, cannot be doubted.
I had been informed that the whole army was to follow and share our fate.
This statement had so little effect on any of them, that the ambassadors were near being ill-treated, and an army was sent to Algidum against the Romans.
An army was led to Tusculum with no less expedition than was worthy of the honour of the Roman people.
Perpenna was taken prisoner and his army was dispersed, and Spain was reduced to obedience.
The strength of an army was in the heavy armed infantry; and this body was composed almost entirely of citizens, with a small mixture of Periœci.
An army was raised, and Iphicrates was appointed general.
General Lee did not cross the Hudson until the 4th of December, moving snail-like, although he knew that Washington's army was in imminent peril.
At that time, the transportation of supplies for anarmy was a slow and tedious work.
No army wasever in a condition so deplorable; and I would not dare to let my soldiers know the actual state of things, lest they become demoralized.
Though Howe's army was weakened by sickness, such effective troops as he had were well-trained soldiers.
On September 6-8 Freytag's army was attacked by a French army under Houchard of nearly four times its strength.
Washington's army was in grievous want of supplies, the American marine was annihilated, their finances were in a ruinous state, and their resources generally almost exhausted.
Burgoyne's army was in fine order, but the arrangements for the carriage of supplies and the making of roads were insufficient.
For by them the cavalry were routed; by them the archers and slingers were cut to pieces; by them the left wing of Pompey's army was surrounded, and obliged to be the first to flee.
Pope's army was out of subsistence and forage, and the single-track railroad was inadequate.
Over at Seven Pines the center of McClellan's army was about to be routed.
After the battle the whole of Jackson's army wasdrawn up on the slopes near it.
Early in the afternoon, Hooker by a ruse was beguiled into the belief that Lee's army was in full retreat.
Buckner was informed that the Federal army was about to move upon his works.
The weary Union troops had scarcely time to cook their coffee after the night march, and some of them no time at all, before the storm broke and the army was summoned to the battle which Thomas had opened.
With the exception of this force, all of Rosecrans's army was south of the river on September 4, and on the move.
Fort Donelson followed Roanoke; and Price's army was routed in Missouri.
Reinforcements were constantly arriving for Jackson, and it became evident, by the 18th, that nearly the whole of Lee's army was assembling in front of General Pope, along the south side of the Rapidan.
This day we heard that some part of Lee's army was in Pennsylvania!
Fairfax's army was intended by its founders to be a specifically English army, and Cromwell for one would have employed it against the Scots almost as readily as against malignants.
Waller's army was no better paid than Essex's and no more free from local ties than Manchester's.
The Parliament's army was in a most despicable condition, and had never been recruited, had we not given them a month's time, which we lingered away at this fatal town of Gloucester.
But so it was, that this crowd of an army was to triumph over us, and they did it, for all the kingdom was carefully informed how their dreadful looks had frightened us away.
Sennacherib's army was attacked by bubonic plague and was compelled to retire.
According to the first, Hezekiah paid tribute; according to the second, Sennacherib's army was destroyed.
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