Meanwhile, Napoleon was pouring veteran troops from Germany into the north of Spain, where they repulsed the Spanish levies in several minor engagements.
Levies of 800 men were ordered for the purpose, the contingents of the several states fixed, and general rules appointed for the organization of their army.
The second most important revenue source has consisted of levies on enterprises in the form of a profits tax, a tax on fixed capital (interest charge) and miscellaneous other deductions from income.
Usually about 90 percent of budgetary revenue has been derived from operations of the economy, and the remainder has been raised through a variety of levieson the population.
The levies which had been sent for from the southern counties had been countermanded, but were recalled within a few hours of the first order.
These raw levies were, however, powerless against the veterans of Constantine, whom he led in person.
New levies were indeed dispatched to the Rhine, and Tiberius and Germanicus led the forces.
Finally the troops arrived--from the different fronts where they could be spared, and new levies from Germany and Austria-Hungary.
This was thought all the more likely as thousands of the British regular troops had been withdrawn from India and Egypt for service in France, being replaced by raw levies from England and the Colonies.
If A gives B a mortgage, B not having the mortgage recorded, and E obtains a judgment against A and levies upon the real estate mortgaged to B, E obtains a lien superior to B's.
A and B, but if C, a creditor of A, secures a judgment against A and levies on the horse, his levy is superior to B's mortgage.
It may be that it will speak of another Lion, who sits beneath the white shield as a king, who within the territory of the great king levies war upon and treats as enemies the friends of the Lion of the Zulu.
It was hardly possible that with his raw levies he could continue to hold in check the well-disciplined troops of Cornwallis, which in the morning would be reinforced with troops he had left at Maidenhead and Princeton.
Bancroft says of Schuyler that he was "choleric and querulous, and was ill suited to control undisciplined levies of turbulent freemen.
It was not until late in the spring that the new levies reached headquarters.
Then he encamped without the town with his troops and took up his abode in his pavilion, whilst the levies came from all parts of the kingdom; for his subjects loved him by reason of his much justice and beneficence.
However, Ibrahim was advancing, having recalled all his garrisons, and made newlevies in the mountains.
He therefore received orders to repair to Constantinople, with considerable levies of Bosnians and Albanians, of which they knew he could dispose, and with the six regiments of infantry and cavalry that belonged to them.
A place very favorable for the making levies of men.
The armies of Aulus Hirtius and Caius Caesar pursued him, and afterwards the levies of Pansa roused the city and all Italy.
And while the fact of the war is in doubt, how can men possibly be zealous about the levies for the army?
Levies of troops are ordered throughout all Italy; all exemptions from service are suspended; the robe of war is to be assumed to-morrow, the consul has said that he shall come down to the senate house with an armed guard.
To these resources other kings and other levies of troops will be added.
Though Brittany had hitherto refused all kinds of military service under the Republic, the levies were made under the new law on the faith of its promises, and with such promptness that even the commander was startled.
What's the use of /decreeing/ levies in the departments?
Many of the departments have opposed the recruiting much more decidedly than they have ventured to do here; and it was not without inspiring terror by numerous arrests, that the levies which were immediately necessary were procured.
Even the first leviesare not all departed for the frontiers, and some who were prevailed on to go are already returned.
Levies of colonial troops were made, both in and out of the territories of the saints.
The Earl of Derby was at the head of the lieutenancy of Lancashire and Cheshire, and to guard against any fresh attempt to disturb the public tranquillity, levies of troops, armour, and money were made.
Its members, who designated the suspects, often arrested them themselves; they made levies and reports of these in which they omitted the gold and jewels found.
When Congress offered bounties to those who enlisted in the Continental army, some of the States offered higher bounties for their own levies of militia, and one authority was bidding against the other.
The States were timid about imposing taxation and few if any paid promptly the levies made upon them.
Each reserved the right to raise its own levies in its own way.
New England was raising her levieswith patriotism and spirit, meeting a common foe with common feeling, and, it may be added, with common sense.
On the eighteenth, the New England levies were landed on the Beauport shore, having the river St. Charles between them and Quebec.
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