The "fords of the Avon" are fought for by contending armies, and become for the moment places of renown.
But the fords and bridges of the river, being vital points between Oxford and the West, were constant scenes of strife.
They were posted at the fords below Chad's, which were easily protected.
On the 27th he put his troops in motion for the Catawba, but before he reached the fords a sudden rise of the river made the crossing an impossibility, and gave Morgan two days' respite.
The British commander decided to place himself between his opponents and the fordsof the Dan, hoping thereby to prevent the Americans taking refuge in Virginia.
Where the woods pressed closest upon the streams, the path wound from one bank to the other, crossing by fords or stepping-stones, or by a bridge of tree-trunks.
There were several fords by which William's army would have to cross on its way south.
He could thus attack the right flank of his opponent; the infantry composing the center of his army advancing, meanwhile, under cover of a heavy artillery fire, and forcing the fords of the Boyne.
Tyrconnell signalized himself by deserting the fords over the Shannon and departing to Galway, declaring that the town would certainly surrender within a week.
And two hundred yoke of oxen must be taken, for we shall require them at the fords and marshy places.
When the expedition was ended, the army dispersed among the fields and meadows and the fords of the Dnieper; each man fished, wrought at his trade, brewed his beer, and was once more a free Cossack.
They were now some twenty miles only by road from the fords of Jordan, but Heshbon, a strong fortress, confronted them.
The journey to Pethor was by the oasis of Tadmor and the fords at Carchemish.
I hear the fords are bad, especially the crossing of the Snake.
Some fords on ahead, yes; we got ter cross back ter the south side the Snake again.
And the two fords of the Snake--well, I for one wish we were across them.
Word passed that there were other fords a few miles higher up.
The influx of emigrants had for the time driven the herds back from their ancient fords and watering places, to which their deep-cut trails led down, worn ineradicably into the soil.
The Fords offered us every assistance in securing drivers, and went to much trouble on our behalf.
The Fords have lived here for a quarter of a century, but now the Company is abandoning the Post as unprofitable and they are to be transferred to some other quarter.
During the pause, the French cavalry had again crossed the Tormes, by one of the fords used in the night by the British; and had taken post at Aldea Tejarda, thus placing themselves between the British army and the road to Ciudad.
He fought at Pombal and at Redinha, and that so strenuously that, had it not been for Trant, Wilson, and other partisans who defended all the fords and bridges, Massena would have been able to have crossed the Mondego.
The French crossed the Tormes by the fordsof Huerta and Alba, the British by other fords above Salamanca.
Thanks to the vigilance with which the Minho regiment had guarded the line of the fords of the Yeltes, no news of the siege was received by Marmont in time for him to interfere with it.
He had sent, however, strict orders to guard all the fords of the river, but not being present to see this enforced, Henry at Nesle received information that the passage was still open between Voyenne and Béthancourt.
The prince took possession of the fords of the Severn, and destroyed the boats and bridges on that river.
We determined joining her immediately, but the messenger informed us we could not pass either of the fords that separated the island we were in from Benbecula, as they were both guarded.
We determined joining her immediately, but the messenger told us we could not pass any of the fords that separated the island we were in from Benbicula, as they were both guarded.
It was no coward's legs or hands, Harry Waakfelt, that drew you out of the fords of Frew, when you was drifting ower the plack rock, and every eel in the river expected his share of you.
The oldest structures often have legends in which are reflected the conditions exacted by evil powers, of those who spanned the fords in which men had often been drowned.
The water-demons have been already described in their obvious aspects, but it is necessary to mention here the simple obstructive river-demons haunting fords and burns, and hating bridges.
In Ceylon, the demon Tota still casts malignant spells about fords and ferries.
The Ritterford and Kershope-ford, after-mentioned, are noted fords on the river Liddel.
Another similar foot-ford might have been found at point 6 immediately below the junction of the Doornkop Spruit with the Tugela, but the existence of neither of these fords was known to Major-General Hart or to the Headquarter staff.
His object was to get to the Catawba before he could be intercepted by his lordship, who lay nearer than he did to the fords of that river.
It continued for several days, and gave Morgan time to send off his prisoners who had crossed several miles above, and to call out the militia of Mecklenburg and Rowan Counties to guard the fords of the river.
At daylight on the 10th, the artillery and the last of the troops passed the fords of the Fishkill, and took a position upon the heights, and in the redoubts formerly constructed there.
The river at thesefords was shallow, and the banks were not steep.
Pope, at the time, was in possession of the fords of the Rappahannock, trying to check the Confederate advance toward the Shenandoah.
Grant decided on a general advance of the Army of the Potomac upon Lee, and early on the morning of May 4th the movement began by crossing the Rapidan at several fords below Lee's entrenched position, and moving by his right flank.
They were to cross Bull Run by fords several miles below the Stone Bridge and attack the Northern troops on the weaker wing of the Union force in an effort to rout them before relief could be sent from the Federal right.
In this way the fords across the rivers which led to safety were in control of the Army of the Potomac.
We had passed the barrows and the entrenchments, and the pits from whence coins with names, but without a history or a date, had been dug, and we had trodden on hard ground laid down at fords by men who had left no memory.
And he said: "Here are the Fords of the Jordan--a monumental place.
If the fords should be too deep for your pack-animals and artillery, they will be crossed over the bridge at Kelly's Ford.
I will, with your consent, send parties to thosefords with supplies at an early hour to-morrow.
If agreeable to you, I would like to send medical supplies and attendance to my wounded, and, at such times as the state of the stream will permit, send ambulances for them via the fords designated in your communications, viz.
Here and there he called a halt facing some town on the opposite bank, but the boats which could have put him across had been removed, and the fords were too well guarded to permit of his hazarding an attack.
It taxed the whole of the army's resources in Fords for Tekrit, blankets and coats having to give way to rations.
A stream of Fords ran night and day between the troops and Samarra.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fords" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
