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Example sentences for "guerrilla warfare"

  • The reductions in numbers compelled the Cuban leaders more and more to resort to guerrilla warfare.

  • Thus far General Quesada had been waging an almost exclusively irregular or guerrilla warfare.

  • Small bodies of Cubans were still carrying on guerrilla warfare wherever it seemed most effective, and the plantations belonging to Spanish sympathizers were suffering in consequence.

  • Of this style of fighting Taylor has truly said:-- "If war in certain of its aspects is a temporary reversion to barbarism, guerrilla warfare is a temporary reversion to savagery.

  • They disintegrate by passing through the stages of guerrilla warfare, of armed bands of highwaymen, of prowling groups of thieves, of sturdy beggars who at opportune moments resort to petty larceny.

  • A period of guerrilla warfare maintained by the educated, patriotic, fighting generals, in a gradually decreasing number of provinces, until the summer of 1902.

  • To have surrendered either to Wellington or Bluecher would have been seeking instant death; to have collected such desperate soldiers as could be got together would have been an attempt at guerrilla warfare.

  • This would be a condition of affairs which the Mexicans, pursuing their favorite system of guerrilla warfare, would probably prefer to any other.

  • Neither can the crime be justified upon the ground that the robbery and the attendant murders were acts of partisan or guerrilla warfare.

  • And, "as if that were not enough it provides for" such heresies in guerrilla warfare as "schools for that same training of the freed slaves in manual labor which is today so widely hailed as the readiest solution of the negro problem.

  • Was this just a general discussion of guerrilla warfare, or did it relate to the activities of Bringuier's anti-Castro organization?

  • He could have mentioned that, because he was talking about the experience that he had in guerrilla warfare in the Marine Corps.


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