Bradstreet saw their intention; and collecting two hundred and fifty men, was about to advance up the west bank to oppose them, when Dr.
At the place which the French called the Burnt Camp, where Montcalm had embarked the summer before, they saw a detachment of the enemy too weak to oppose them.
He represented the difficulty of besieging Malaga with their present force, especially as their plans had been discovered and anticipated, and the whole country was marching to oppose them.
Should the Christians gain possession of the sea-coast, it would be ruinous to the kingdom; should he leave Granada to oppose them, his vacant throne might be seized on by his nephew.
His remark was received with universal satisfaction, as no one thought of the superior number of the garrison likely to oppose them.
With a loud cheer they dashed alongside, and quickly scrambled on her deck, cutting down several of the more daring of the band, who, not knowing what English seamen were made of, ventured to oppose them.
It could scarcely be supposed that so much property would be left without protection; still no soldiers had been seen, and Higson hoped that they might accomplish their object before any could come down to oppose them.
And thus did they fight this first battle with those that ventured to oppose them, after they were gone out of Egypt.
Those in the rear were to press closely up so as to necessitate a strong force being kept there to oppose them.
Berwick was too weak to oppose them, and on the 25th of June the advance guard of the allies occupied Madrid, and there proclaimed Charles as king.
We are endeavoring to collect as large a body to oppose them as we can arm; this will be lamentably inadequate, if the enemy be in any force.
We are taking measures to collect a body to oppose them, for which purpose it seems necessary to retain such regulars, volunteers and militia as have not yet gone on to you.
If the greater part of the British armies be employed in the South, it is to be supposed that the greater part of the American force will be sent there to oppose them.
This misfortune, besides the loss of so great an officer as Santa Croce, retarded the sailing of the armada, and gave the English more time for their preparations to oppose them.
Spaniards; and the queen equipped a fleet and levied an army in a fortnight to oppose them.
A few militia assembled to oppose them, and, in a desultory, scattered manner, fought with great intrepidity through most of the day.
The militia hastened in small parties to oppose them, but were too few to produce much effect other than wounding some of the enemy on their march toward the town.
This pass," he observed, "should also be attended to, lest the enemy by a coup de main should possess themselves of it before a sufficient force could be assembled to oppose them.
They swept away the force of German horsemen who ventured to oppose them, and also drove back several battalions of infantry.
She and her friends thought her huge masses would swamp everything that attempted to oppose them.
They appeared to intend to rush past the guards, knocking down any who attempted to oppose them, and so get away.
The whole division struggled through the mud, drove back the Austrians hastily brought up to oppose them, captured the battery, and poured into the gap; thereby cutting the Austrian army in two, and taking both halves in flank.
Seidlitz, having so few men to oppose them, evacuated the place, and the enemy marched into it in triumphant procession.
Their numbers, however, were so magnified by rumour that the governor of Berlin, who had but four thousand troops, did not venture to oppose them, but sent the royal family and archives away under a strong escort.
When they heard that Rex had only returned from Pekin the week before, they asked him innumerable questions as to the country and the strength of the force that would be likely to oppose them.
Seeing how far the others have gone, he may have ceased to oppose them, and might either have you put to death or hand you over to the Empress.
There is no doubt that they will be met by an ever–increasing resistance as they move forward, and twenty thousand regular troops have moved round to the south gate to oppose them if they get as far as that.
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