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Example sentences for "march against"

  • The former now summoned a council of bishops at Arles to suppress the heresy of the Donatists, but, before it met, was forced to march against Licinius, who had conspired against him.

  • Sidenote: =Steals away to Boonesboro=] One day he saw four hundred fifty painted warriors getting ready to march against Boonesboro.

  • Hamilton decided to stay there for the winter and march against Clark in the spring.

  • But he was never able to march against Detroit, as once he had planned to do.

  • Transactions of Cortes and the Spaniards from their March against Mexico, to the Commencement of the Siege of that City.

  • Upon rejoining the army, Leigh and his party of scouts learned, to their satisfaction, that it was intended to march against Saumur.

  • Up to that time it can be only a war of skirmishes, unless our leaders can persuade the peasants to march against Paris; and that, I fear, they will never be able to do.

  • We therefore resolved to march against Chamula, and not to desist until we had thoroughly subdued the inhabitants.

  • When Cortes received notice of their approach, he ordered the horse and the whole of our troops to march against them.

  • As the abbe was always protected by a guard of soldiers, he sent for the officer in command and ordered him to march against, the fanatics and disperse them.

  • He obtained from Louis XII three hundred lances wherewith to march against them.

  • Murray, who knew that often the entire peace of a reign depends on the firmness one displays at its beginning, immediately summoned all the northern barons whose estates bordered on his, to march against Huntly.

  • By all appearance the enemie resolve to march against us, as one might say, whether it be possible or not.

  • Sapor leads back his army home, because the auspices forbid war--Constantius, intending to march against Julian, harangues his soldiers.

  • A victory would only be succeeded by another battle against the same superiority: a reverse involves the loss of our allies, the source of our strength, who will not remain quiet a day after we become unable to march against them.

  • Hill's), and my own to march against Hooker.

  • On the 26th, General McClellan ordered General Fitz-John Porter to organize a force to march against a Confederate outpost near Hanover Court-House.

  • Before he could organize for attack the firing at Harper's Ferry ceased, indicating surrender of that garrison and leaving the troops operating there free to march against him.

  • Some of the leaders of the Christian army proposed to march against Jerusalem.

  • Musa could not refuse to comply with the formal command of the caliph to march against him.

  • Mokhtar was now at the zenith of power, but Ibn Zobair, determined to get rid at all costs of so dangerous an enemy, named his brother Mus'ab governor of Basra and ordered him to march against Kufa.

  • Merwan, who wanted to march against Irak, was obliged to return to Syria, where he put an end to the troubles.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "march against" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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