An armistice was concluded with Sardinia, and Beaulieu, who vainly attempted to defend the Po, was defeated on the 7th and 8th of May, at Fombio.
With the exception of the troops belonging to the circle there were none to defend the frontiers of the empire.
They were headed by the two brothers of the French king, who entered into negotiation with all the foreign powers, and they vowed to defend the cause of the sovereigns against the people.
At noon on the following day the lancers, again advancing towards Grenoble, found the infantry drawn up to defend the road.
Leaving Quintus Pleminius lieutenant-general, and the garrison which had taken the citadel to defend the city, the general himself crossed over to Messana with the forces he had brought with him.
From Metropolis they were repulsed by the inhabitants, who, while a part of their army was plundering the country, assembled in a body to defend the city.
General Thomas was at Nashville, with Wilson's dismounted cavalry and a mass of new troops and quartermaster's employs amply sufficient to defend the place.
If he passes over to the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, had I not better execute the plan of my letter sent you by Colonel Porter, and leave General Thomas, with the troops now in Tennessee, to defend the State?
There are men enough to the rear to whip Forrest, but they are necessarily scattered to defend the roads.
It was on the roofs of these windows that captain Willoughby had laid his platform, or walk, with a view to extinguish fires, or to defend the place.
Pliny the younger, also, fell fighting like a wild beast to defend the entrance to his mistresses' apartments.
You and I think it a good cause, my good and frowning Maud, to defend the rights of our sovereign lord the king.
I shall be able, alone, to defend the innocence of my son before the judges.
On most of the points to which he has referred, it would be easy for me, were I so inclined, to defend the Ministers; and where I could not defend them, I should find it easy to recriminate on those who preceded them.
All who could bear arms, and had learned the news of the Duke's arrival, came to defend the land.
The Duke, he said, ought to seek him, as he wanted to conquer England; and it became him to abide the attack who had to defend the land.
That de Castro was much mistaken in supposing any of his army would abandon him, and might therefore prepare for battle, as he was determined to defend the country to his last breath.
The rest of his servants were protected by a general act of oblivion; and they were left to enjoy with impunity the bribes which they had accepted, either to defend the oppressed, or to oppress the friendless.
King Jatmund had set a king, who was called Olaf, to defend the land; and he gathered an innumerable mass of people, with whom he marched against King Eirik.
He had set him to defend thecountry to the East, as before has been written.
King Valdemar made him chief over the men-at-arms whom he sent out to defend the land.
The beginning of Hakon's speech was, that he offered himself to the bondes as king, and desired from them the title of king, and aid and forces to defend the kingdom.
And after he turned back there-from, he set Duke Guthorm as chief to defend the country, and left a great force with him.
On their side the Chinese made every preparation to defend the passage, and they blocked the navigation of the river with a double line of junks, while the Bogue forts were manned by all the troops of the province.
After the death of his sovereign he attempted to defend the capital; but overpowered by numbers he surrendered to the victor, who offered him an honorable command in his service.
Henry knew how to defend the rights of his crown with vigour, and yet with dexterity.
A circumstance occurred in which I had to defend the rights of the diplomatic and commercial agents against the pretensions of military power.
The acquisition of five or six hundred seamen as gunners was a great advantage to the Turks, whose spirits they revived, and whom they showed how to defend the fortress.
Tettenborn did not deceive himself as to the weakness of the allies on this point, or the inutility of attempting to defend the city.
The Russians have in vain endeavoured to defend the capital of ancient and illustrious Poland.
He accordingly arrayed his troops so as todefend the Convention, and his artillery was in readiness to repulse the rebels.
I shall not attempt to defend the morality of my action, but I could not get away without discovery, and the knowledge that I had heard a part of their conversation might prove disquieting to them.
Pa was surprised to hear that many of them were University men, and that they were already organizing to defend the Union.
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