Hooker's extraordinary retirement from the front of an enemy whom he had come out for the express purpose of attacking in overwhelming force, has always been inexplicable.
His purpose now was to join Sherman there, unite the two wings of the army, and in company with Sherman and the gunboats move down the river and assail Vicksburg in overwhelming force.
And there he began to entrench himself, as though he were about to be besieged by an overwhelming force.
He referred the King and his councillors to you, and their next measure will probably be to march an overwhelming force against us, aided by our captured iron nine-pounders.
Tuscans; but the former feared the resentment of the United States, and sought to postpone a rupture until he could coerce them by overwhelming force.
The Spaniards, nobly resolving to yield only to overwhelming force, refused; and in the ensuing fight one of their ships blew up, whereupon the others hauled down their flags and were taken to England.
The doctrine of "decisive or overwhelming force" is the conceptual and operational underpinning for winning the next war based largely on this force-on-force and attrition model, and winning the information war is vital to this end.
In designing its defense posture, the United States has adopted the doctrine of employing "decisive or overwhelming force.
As in Desert Shield/Storm, enough time would have to be allowed to assemble an overwhelming force.
The first example is "Overwhelming Force," the doctrine and concept shaping today's American force structure.
As soon as Scheer realized that he had not only run right into the arms of the Grand Fleet, but lay in the worst tactical position imaginable with an overwhelming force concentrated on the head of his line, he turned away to escape.
Caught in a noose by an overwhelming force, he disentangled himself by means of the torpedo attacks of his destroyer flotillas and turned away under cover of their smoke screens.
A modern army, surrounded with an overwhelming force, against which all resistance was madness, would have done the same as the Spartans.
The besieged could not resist this overwhelming force, and retreated to their last redoubt, but were surrounded and taken prisoners.
With every allowance for exaggeration in these reports, it was plain that the French could attack their invaders in overwhelming force.
The French and Imperialists, in overwhelming force, thought to crush him at Rosbach.
The fugitives would give warning of their presence, and the French and Indians, in overwhelming force, would no doubt cut off their retreat.
But the autumn brought reverses; and the Austrian general, Daun, at the head of an overwhelming force, gained over him a partial victory, which his masterly strategy robbed of its fruits.
McClellan was about to move towards Richmond with an overwhelming force, and we expected him to easily capture the rebel capital.
But he could rely on help at any station, and when he had obtained the means of conveyance, as he would be sure to do at Kingston, he could easily find an overwhelming force to take with him.
An overwhelming force of the enemy was thrown upon him, and after several contests he and his brave men were forced to disperse.
As he had seen such an overwhelming force go down upon us, and as he knew that we were hemmed in by deep water on two sides, Frank took it for granted that my star had set forever.
They took it for granted that an overwhelming force was on them, and every man was for saving himself.
Against them was flung an overwhelming force of Germans, including the left wing of the Würtemberg army.
Such was the state of the settlement when there appeared at the head of the valley an overwhelming force of Tories and Indians, principally of the Seneca tribe of the Six Nations, led by Colonel Butler.
Setting fire to the fort, they embarked so hastily that a part of their military stores were abandoned, and fled as if from an overwhelming force, Oglethorpe hastening their flight by pursuit with his few vessels.
The French reserves were instantly advanced; they came on in overwhelming force, cleared the breaches of the assailants, and drove them beyond the outer line, with the loss of two hundred officers and men.
Firmly resolved to maintain his conquest even against this overwhelming force, Horn awaited the enemy within the walls of Bamberg; but was obliged to yield to the vanguard of Tilly what he had thought to be able to dispute with his whole army.
The English, having gained the wind, would have been in position easily to "contain" the eleven lee ships, and to surround the nineteen weather ones in overwhelming force.
Should this breach be discovered by the blockading horsemen, they would arouse the country, Granada and Loxa would pour out an overwhelming force, and they would find his walls ready sapped for an assault.
In the heat of the action a panic seized upon them; they fled, leaving their sovereign exposed with his handful of cavaliers to an overwhelming force.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overwhelming force" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
