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Example sentences for "killed and"

  • The whole number of killed and wounded of French and Indians, did not exceed seventy.

  • The troops sustained unflinching a destructive fire for several hours, and at length retired with honor, their small force having sustained a loss of about six hundred in killed and wounded.

  • It was found later that Hancock's left had not been turned, and the points thus abandoned had to be regained at a heavy cost in killed and wounded, to both the cavalry and the infantry.

  • The enemy's loss in killed and wounded we never learned, but it must have equalled ours; and about four thousand prisoners, consisting principally of sick and wounded, fell into our hands.

  • Doubtless this had much to do with Thomas's final withdrawal, thus leaving the field to the enemy, though at an immense cost in killed and wounded.

  • It is here that Busiris enters into the circle of the myths and parerga of Heracles, who had arrived in Egypt from Libya, and was seized and bound ready to be killed and offered at the altar of Zeus in Memphis.

  • Each side lost about 5,000 killed and wounded--a mere trifle to the allies, but a grave disaster to the defenders.

  • Mr. Sigourney and 10 of his men were killed or wounded, while the British also suffered heavily, having 4 killed and 7 (including Lieutenant Curry) wounded.

  • He had to drop his prisoners and fight his way out, losing about six hundred men in killed and captured, and then returned with the remainder to his position at Turner's Ferry.

  • Our losses, as compiled from the official returns for July, 1864, are: Killed and Missing.

  • Our loss was some forty in killed and wounded, including several excellent officers.

  • The 5th and 6th Kentucky instantly attacked and dispersed it, taking a piece of artillery and forty or fifty prisoners, inflicting some loss in killed and wounded.

  • Some of them, however, estimated by the losses on both sides in killed and wounded, were equal in hard fighting to most of the battles of the Mexican war which attracted so much of the attention of the public when they occurred.

  • Our loss in the first affair was about thirty killed and wounded.

  • Even the degree of moral superiority may be better judged of by them than by any other relation, especially if the number of killed and wounded is compared therewith; and here arises a new power increasing the moral effects.

  • The returns made up on each side of losses in killed and wounded, are never exact, seldom truthful, and in most cases, full of intentional misrepresentations.

  • The losses in a battle consist more in killed and wounded; those after the battle, more in artillery taken and prisoners.

  • The Ottawas, intensely jealous of the preference shown to the Hurons, declared in their anger that the prisoner ought to be killed and eaten.

  • Hertel and his followers made a stand on the farther bank, killed and wounded a number of the English as they attempted to cross, kept up a brisk fire on the rest, held them in check till night, and then continued their retreat.

  • John Pike, it is placed at 48 killed and 78 taken.

  • The enemy's loss was very heavy, as well in killed and wounded as in captures.

  • A severe skirmish ensued, in which we lost about two hundred and eighty in killed and wounded.

  • No returns ever were made of the amount of the French loss in the battle of Waterloo; but it must have been immense, and may be partially judged of by the amount of killed and wounded in the armies of the conquerors.

  • I need hardly remark that it is not the number of killed and wounded in a battle that determines its general historical importance.


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