Hessian-Anspach contingent was more than offset by the Germans fighting for the cause of American independence.
When the time shall be ripe, but one difficulty will stand in the way of carrying out the proposed contingent plan.
The event showed that the arrival of Bülow's contingent was really the signal for the oncoming of the whole Prussian army.
The French fleet was increased to thirty-three ships of the line and five frigates, the addition being the Spanish contingent under Admirals Gravina and Alava.
Mr. McLean, of Victoria, replied to a similar telegram that: "I do not think that the number of our Contingent should be limited.
And so it is that we have not offered a Canadian Contingent to the Home authorities.
COSBY Commanding 48th Royal Highlanders, Toronto, and his two sons in the Second Contingent in South Africa--Lieut.
But it was not until some of the earlier reverses of the war took place that the offer of a second Contingent was pressed upon the Home Government.
This amount, therefore, was not a burden on the state, provided the railroad remained solvent; though in form a direct, it was virtually a contingent liability.
Contingent debt was incurred by the indorsement of railroad bonds.
He was placed in command of the Austrian contingent sent to join the Russians on the Oder.
Contingent appropriations are forbidden, and the constitution contains a long list of subjects on which special laws may not be passed.
Another contingentof returned prisoners, numbering about 800, arrived at Dover yesterday afternoon.
Again: The first contingentof British prisoners from Germany to arrive in London under the terms of the armistice reached Cannon Street Station from Dover yesterday.
The young men stand round and listen, and are fired with emulation, and there is no doubt that if the Sircar wants them the contingent of Meenas will increase.
A contingent sent out from the town to discover the strength of the Turkish force, located them at Ghadir.
The contingent numbered sixteen Europeans, and about 350 natives.
Some of these were taken from La Bassée, and others from a contingent which had been intended for a northern offensive movement.
The Indian contingent had received orders to keep in touch with the Third Division.
One was contingent upon the continued but "friendly" neutrality of Rumania, the other on her active participation in the war on the side of Austria-Hungary.
The Eighth Infantry furnished from its Mexican War contingent few conspicuous leaders to either side in the subsequent Civil War.
The younger contingent immediately jumped to the conclusion that the war was over, and that Twiggs's and Patterson's troops were ordered home.
Morris, for Congress had now authorized the use of the navy for offensive operations, and the Secretary of the Treasury, with many misgivings, had begun to accumulate his Mediterranean Fund to meet contingent expenses.
These pretended tax-preparations, treasure-preparations, and army-preparations against contingent wars tend only to encourage wars.
Again the Arab contingent would have made off into the desert but for the promise of more money.
In 1918 it was found necessary to separate the postal contingent at Salonika from the control of the Deputy Director in Egypt, and the force was placed in charge of Mr. A.
A field post office contingent was also sent to Bushire in 1918 in connection with the operations between Bushire and Shiraz.
When the island of Cyprus was ceded to Great Britain by Turkey the Indian Contingent went to occupy it, and the postal staff was accordingly ordered to embark for Cyprus.
A small field postalcontingent was sent in 1914 and was steadily increased as the operations extended.
Yet Napoleon admitted the British contingent to be equal, man for man, to his own troops, while he estimated these to be worth twice their own number of Dutchmen, Prussians, or other Germans.
Junot acted with vigour, disarmed the Spanish contingent at Lisbon, and sent columns to quell disturbances on the Spanish frontiers, but he soon realised the necessity of concentration.
It arrived too late, Danzig surrendered in May, and on June 14 Napoleon obtained a decisive victory over the Russian army and its Prussian contingent at Friedland.
To reckon up all is a thing impossible; of some therefore most remarkable of these contingent causes which produce melancholy, I will briefly speak and in their order.
I rather fancy," said Psmith, "that our allies of the Table Hill contingent must have arrived.
Of course the opposition papers may have allowed their zeal to run away with them, but even assuming that to be the case, the other candidates appear to be a pretty fair contingent of blighters.
There are many important classes of workers whose sufferings have nothing either curious or dramatic about them, who nevertheless furnish the largest contingent to the army of death.
We arrived late in the evening, secretly hoping that we should get a night in bed, and were rather rejoiced at finding that there were no wounded there at all at present, though a large contingent was expected later.
A nurse going to Antwerp, with myself, formed the only female contingenton board.
A rebellion was stirred up in Urbino, from whence Caesar's troops were driven, and another contingent of his was defeated at Fossombrone (October 17).
In return for a promise to reorganise the Imperial Chamber, he received a contingent from the Diet; he also took a body of Swiss mercenaries into his pay.
At Asti they were joined by a contingent of 5000 Swiss, sent by the Cantons, who had made a treaty with Louis.
It was further decreed that each contingentshould be under its own officers, and that the commander-in-chief, though appointed by the Emperor, must be a German.
They call us idle good-for-nothings, and say that the contingent ought to be reduced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contingent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
