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Example sentences for "grand army"

  • Re-union of Grand Army of the Republic in Baltimore, September, 1882.

  • There is a large society of Grand Army men in Albany, one Post numbering five or six hundred members.

  • The Emperor was once more at the head of his united "grand army"; but the name was ere now become a jest.

  • His ambassador there, the AbbĂ© de Pradt, who had as yet heard no distinct accounts of the progress of events, was unexpectedly visited by Caulaincourt, who abruptly informed him that the grand army was no more.

  • Here he soon learned that the Crown Prince and Blucher, apprehensive that he might interpose betwixt them and the grand army of Schwartzenberg, had retreated upon the line of the Saale during the night preceding the 11th.

  • Despite the size and efficiency of the "Grand Army," nothing was done and nothing attempted.

  • Kelly, Commander of Post 15, Grand Army of the Republic, and was honored by the presence on the platform of representatives from nearly all the Posts of Boston.

  • He is an intelligent and courteous gentleman, an author of good repute, a soldier whose record is without a stain, and a true comrade of the "Grand Army.

  • Department of New York, "Grand Army of the Republic," for the past eight years, and know him to be worthy the confidence of every loyal man.

  • It is a little singular and surprising that McClellan with his "grand army" never made an attack on the Confederates, but on the contrary, was always on the defensive in all the battles from Williamsburg to Malvern Hill.

  • The "Grand Army of the West," by which pretentious title Hull had seen fit to describe his invading force, melted like mist before the rising sun.

  • Stevens, Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic; A.

  • Brown, of Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic.

  • The bridges were laid and the grand army of a hundred and thirteen thousand began to pour across.

  • He had lost twenty thousand men out of his sixty-two thousand--while Meade was still in command of a grand army of eighty-two thousand soldiers flushed with victory.

  • With sixty thousand he had just struck Hooker's grand army of a hundred and thirty thousand men and four hundred and thirty-eight guns, rolled it up as a scroll and thrown it across the Rappahannock in blinding, bewildering defeat.

  • The men who charged us, the picked veterans of England's grand army.

  • Within seven days Lee drove his Grand Army of more than a hundred thousand men from the gates of Richmond thirty-five miles and hurled them on the banks of the James at Harrison's Landing under the shelter of the Federal gunboats.

  • General McDowell's army had moved to this attack hounded by the clamor of demagogues for the immediate capture of Richmond by his "Grand Army.

  • His critics had threatened to wreck his administration unless he forced their "Grand Army" to march on Richmond and take it without a day's delay.

  • Grand Army of the Republic, at Rutland, Vt.

  • Grand Army of the Republic posts on the route of the funeral train of General Sherman from New York to St. Louis will form at their respective railroad stations and salute remains as train passes.

  • It was his idea to organize a "Grand Army of Invasion," which he would lead in person, although at that time he was very old and physically incapacitated for service in the field.

  • Grand Army of the Republic in Massachusetts.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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