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Example sentences for "great military"

  • Denmark, as commanding the approaches to the Baltic, is of great military importance to us.

  • While in some States a restriction of armaments is natural and justifiable, it is easily understood that France must strain every nerve to secure her full recognition among the great military nations of Europe.

  • Such a policy is also the best school in which to educate a nation to great military achievements.

  • His soul was fired with the ambition of signalizing himself by great military exploits.

  • John Sobieski, the newly-elected King of Poland, was a veteran soldier of great military renown.

  • He maintained the institutions of the day, though seeking to diminish their abuse, and he perfected material details; but misfortune would have it that instead of remaining a great military administrator he flattered Louis XIV.

  • Within the space of less than two years the United Kingdom was, mainly by the exertions of the War Office, transformed into a Great Military Power.

  • Thanks to him, the United Kingdom had, alike in respect to men and to material, been transformed into a great military Power, and yet further developments had been assured.

  • We have become tired of the peaceful character of our pursuits; and we want nothing but success on this first attempt to encourage us to become a great military nation, attempting conquest in every quarter.

  • Sujin therefore organized a great military movement, the campaign of the Shido shogun, or "Generalissimo of the four Circuits.

  • In February, 1605, the Tokugawa chief's return to Kyoto from the Kwanto capital was made the occasion of a great military display.

  • The latter fought throughout with their old gallantry, but less than their old discipline; whereas the attacks of the Dutch were made with a sustained and unanimous vigor that showed a great military advance.

  • A study of the military history of the past, such as this, is enjoined by great military leaders as essential to correct ideas and to the skilful conduct of war in the future.

  • They authorised him to borrow money of the Florentine and Genoese merchants, to take hired soldiers into the pay of the order, and to organize the Hospitallers as a great military society.

  • In this he differed but little from many other great military politicians of my acquaintance.

  • Nor has any contest ever before developed so great military genius.

  • The king of Spain, the great Catholic prelates, and the pope, finally perceived how hopeless was the struggle against a man of great military experience, with a devoted army and an enthusiastic capital on his side.

  • His glorious and successful defence against enemies apparently overwhelming gave him a great military reputation, and secured for him the sympathies of Christendom.

  • To strengthen themselves against external foes, they took into their pay John Hawkwood, an Englishman of great military reputation, who had long served the pope and others in Italy.

  • They authorized him to borrow money of the Florentine and Genoese merchants, to take hired soldiers into the pay of the order, and to organize the Hospitallers as a great military society.

  • He was no great military genius, but he had respectable talents and was a good fighter.

  • It was in pursuance of this dream that he created a great military power, and carried his arms in triumph over half the Continent.

  • The first, General Brayer, came with a great military reputation, gained in the wars of the French Republic and under Napoleon; but his arrogance soon lost him the sympathy and confidence of his new comrades.

  • He bridged the Danube with a great military bridge at the spot now known as Turnu-Severin, and Trajan's Column in Rome commemorated the victories which brought all the Balkan Peninsula under the Roman sway.

  • I cannot imagine General Demetrieff having any hand in the making of the second Balkan war against the Serbians and Greeks, and think that the Bulgarians had in him a man of honesty and courage as well as of great military skill.

  • King Stephen Dushan was not only a great military leader, he was also a law-maker and a patron of learning.

  • If we look carefully at the wars of the pagans and the kingdoms they traveled through by great military effort, we shall conclude that none of their strength, their armies, by the grace of God, is comparable to ours.

  • All three, in no way inferior to their mother in honesty, flourished in great military deeds, as well as in the restraint of their behavior.

  • If we look carefully at the wars of the pagans and the kingdoms they traveled through by great military effort, we shall conclude that none of their strength, none of their armies, by the grace of God, is comparable in any way to ours.

  • He was a great military genius, and introduced new tactics into the art of war.


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