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Example sentences for "march upon"

  • To this end it was resolved that Bentivogli should instantly march upon Imola, where Cesare lay, whilst the others should possess themselves of Urbino and Pesaro simultaneously.

  • Until yesterday it was impossible for the rebels to decide whether or not it was General Sherman's intention to march upon Augusta.

  • We shall recapture the towns which he has taken, and if the enemy should dare to accept battle we shall beat him, and shall be in a position to march upon Vienna.

  • It seemed that the opportunity for ending the war by a march upon Vienna, which had been snatched by Wallenstein from Gustavus just when it appeared in his grasp, was now open to Duke Bernhard.

  • These considerations induced Gustavus to abandon the tempting idea of a march upon Vienna.

  • The centre of the army began to march upon Constantinople.

  • He with difficulty withdrew the remainder of his army from the insurgent provinces; and the Carlist leader master of the open country up to the borders of Castile, prepared to cross the Ebro and to march upon Madrid.

  • It was vain to think of a march upon Prague, or of the annihilation of the Austrians, when on the north and the east Napoleon's troops were meeting with nothing but disaster.

  • I know well that, in case of the Clichy party gaining the ascendency, he was determined to cross the Alps with his army, and to assemble all the friends of the Republic at Lyons, thence to march upon Paris.

  • We march upon Paris, and in a fortnight will be there.

  • It required all the promptitude of the Emperor's march upon Vienna to defeat the plots which were brewing against his government, for in the event of his arms being unsuccessful, the blow was ready to be struck.

  • It was then supposed that they would march upon Holland by the way of Bremen and Oldenburg.

  • Fleury de Chaboulon, with secret messages from Maret, (Duke of Bassano) then at Paris, had much to do with the hasty determination of Napoleon to quit Elba at the earliest moment possible.

  • Napoleon entered Dresden on the 11th of May, and on the 12th was joined by the King of Saxony who still adhered to him.

  • It had been for some time believed that it was the intention of the British chiefs to march upon Herat, and now again it was the opinion that they purposed to mask Ghuznee and move at once upon Caubul.

  • He then when he perceived that which was being done to his hurt and for what reason it was being done, fled for refuge to Thrace; and Octamasades being informed of this, proceeded to march upon Thrace.

  • The first step of this division was to march upon Hyderabad, which was captured without any effectual resistance.

  • The troops of the sultan of Damascus were repulsed and driven beyond the frontier, and the Grand Master then returned to Damietta, to superintend the preparations for a march upon Cairo.

  • I'm not likely to steal a march upon you; my own business gives me more work than I can do.

  • No, my friend Valentine, you may be a very clever fellow, but you are not quite clever enough to steal a march upon me.

  • It was useless for him, therefore, to march upon Tanjore, which is a really strong town, so he marched down to Devikota, where he hoped to find some of the fleet.

  • Clive's march upon Arcot, and the heroic defence which the handful of men there were opposing to overwhelming numbers, excited his highest admiration.

  • For two years he was incessantly employed, upon the shores of the Baltic, the home of his ancestors, in gathering adventurers around his flag, to march upon Novgorod, and chase from thence the lieutenants of Yaropolk.

  • Armies were gathering in all directions to march upon Georges.

  • But at length Oleg, having consolidated his realms, and ambitions of still greater renown, wealth and power, resolved boldly to declare war against the empire itself, and to march upon Constantinople.

  • He resolved, taking advantage of the division of the two armies of the allies, to march upon that of Blucher.

  • The combined armies were once more preparing to march upon Damascus, when the sudden illness of Casan, who was given over by his physicians, disconcerted all their arrangements, and deprived the Grand Master of his Tartar forces.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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