Meanwhile he was having increasing difficulty in feeding his army and through sickness and desertion his numbers were declining.
The men suffered great hardships and the numbers fell by desertion and escape.
There is little wonder that desertionwas common, so common that after a reverse the men went away by hundreds.
As they usually carried with them their rifles and other equipment, desertion involved a double loss.
And the cause of it 14 was this:--he continued to reduce all to slavery and subdue them, accusing some of desertion to the Scythians and others of doing damage to the army of Dareios as it was coming back from Scythia.
Oh, how gladly she would relinquish his suit: How cheerfully promise to rejoice in that desertion which brought happiness to the mother she had so loved!
Ganges, pleaded guilty to desertion and embezzlement, and was sentenced to three years' penal servitude.
His orders were that all those who had taken any share in the desertion were to be arrested and their goods sequestrated, and that a contribution of fifty million francs was to be paid by the towns of Luebeck and Hamburg.
Dumouriez's failure at Neerwinden and subsequent desertion to the Allies cast a cloud of suspicion on his protege at a moment when to be suspected was to be condemned.
Desertion was the only way of escape, but the Prussians, by offering heavy rewards for recapture, had made desertion almost impossible.
What caused Massena most anxiety was the ominous desertion of the countryside.
On returning to Paris Macdonald was greeted with a cold reception by the Emperor, who thought that the desertion of the Prussians was due to his negligence.
Chapter III The Round Road; or, the Desertion Charge Pym rose with sincere embarrassment; for he was an American, and his respect for ladies was real, and not at all scientific.
From this cause, undoubtedly, a great deal of domestic misery and unhappiness results, which finally shows itself in desertion or in the divorce court.
Neglect and desertion by relatives, or the disregard of family ties, in America at least, may be put down as one of the important causes of dependence.
Again, it is particularly common in America for children to fail to support aged parents and even the desertion of children by parents is of frequent occurrence.
A sentence of judicial separation may be obtained either by the husband or the wife, on the ground of desertion without cause for two years or upwards.
The order does not prevent the Husband returning to his Wife, but only prevents his taking her earnings while the desertion eontinues.
To constitute wilful desertion on the part of the husband, his absence must be against the will of his wife, and she must not have been a consenting party to it.
It was the Ninth Cavalry which a few years ago astonished the army by reporting not a single desertion in twelve months, an unheard-of and perhaps undreamed-of record.
As this sudden Desertion of ones self shews a Diffidence, which is not displeasing, it implies at the same time the greatest Respect to an Audience that can be.
From them we have no apprehensions of desertion to the enemy.
I do not charge this on Mr. Galloway himself; his desertion having taken place long before these measures, he doubtless received his information from some of the loyal friends whom he left behind him.
This desertion of the powers heretofore thought friendly to him, seems to leave no issue for his ambition, but on the side of Turkey.
In the first place, it led to the desertion of all the Indian allies.
Nothing seems to have been thought of at first beyond the personal desertion of Arnold to the enemy; the betrayal of a fortress was a later development of infamy.
Ras Sela Christos marched against the rebels, but desertion considerably thinned his troops; and he confronted the enemy with barely one-half the numerical strength of their formidable array.
Desertion soon spread among the undisciplined rabble, and after several skirmishes with the royal troops, the offender sought an asylum at Zalla Dingai.
The bones of upwards of three thousand of the combatants which now whiten the sands, have caused the desertion of the best road by the superstitious Danakil.
Habitual suspicion on the part of the despot inducing him to apprehend desertion to the enemy, the arms of the fusiliers of the body-guard were piled according to long-established usage, in one of the royal tents, and strongly guarded.
In March the only comfortable man in the detachment was a prisoner whom I had sentenced for desertion to two months' confinement in the one cell of the fort.
Then the native witnesses who testified to his desertion of his post, his flight and capture, gave their evidence in Hindustani.
A New Theme" tells of his desertion of subjects "that win the easy praise," of his venturing "in the untrodden woods To carve the future ways.
Many of the soldiers and sailors composing the expedition being natives of the countries through which it sailed, apprehensions of desertion were entertained, and partially realised.
Secondly by the flight and voluntary desertion of the younger Fairford, the advocate; on account of which, he served both father and son with a petition and complaint against them, for malversation in office.
He was a great labor agitator and his desertion is a great surprise.
She was a gentle soul, who had always been esteemed by her neighbors, but since her husband's desertion to the enemy, she had been shamefully slighted.
The Army of the North when reinforced, barely numbered 2,000 men, mostly recruits, among whom desertion was frequent.
As the Spanish expedition would thus be set free to act against Mexico, Venezuela, or New Granada, or to reinforce the Government of Peru, this was an act of treachery to the programme of the revolution and a desertion of the cause of America.
The partisans of Santander were in a majority, and the Convention was dissolved on the 10th June by the desertion of the partisans of Bolívar.
The Viceroy, with his dispirited army, was allowed to retreat almost unmolested, though his loss bydesertion was very great.
May I be eternally punished for the desertion in which I am forced to leave you!
She strained her feverish arms to her desolate bosom, which desertion had parched.
It would be a cowardlydesertion which God would assuredly punish.
By his own act, by his own voluntary desertion of the true aim of life, and by that alone, is it possible that a man should drink his cup of misery to the dregs.
Theological Seminary,) we found ourselves incapable of being instrumental in recalling her still again to the commotion, desertion at home, and incessant cares, of another agency.
Brabantio was not wholly without justification in thinking the marriage unnatural, and Desdemona's desertion of him without a word was unfeeling.
Her desertion of the parish church was observed, and of course nobody was surprised that Miss Radcliffe had turned Papist.
It was through the treachery of Median magnates and by the desertion of the Median army of Astyages that Cyrus’ victory was rendered possible.
To prevent the desertion of the god, they bound his statue by a golden chain to the altar of their native deity, Melkarth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desertion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
