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Example sentences for "prisoners taken"

  • Eannatum was here portrayed deciding the fate of prisoners taken in battle.

  • Part of the Stele of the Vultures representing Eannatum deciding the fate of prisoners taken in battle 49-51.

  • Part of the Stele of the Vultures, which was sculptured with a scene representing Eannatum deciding the fate of prisoners taken in battle.

  • Prisoners taken told of the deadly effects of the British gas projectiles which wrought awful havoc among the troops herded in tunnels and dugouts.

  • There were 210 prisoners taken, four guns and a large quantity of ammunition.

  • The Germans captured there made a total of more than 5,000 prisoners taken by the French.

  • The results of the fighting in this region could not be estimated by the number of prisoners taken or the amount of ground gained.

  • In company with Mr. Lloyd George and General Rawlinson to-day saw several hundred of prisoners taken by Australian Troops in battle before Hamel.

  • Very accurate records of these have been kept, and every one of them was identified by a substantial contribution to the list of prisoners taken.

  • Two large dug-outs were bombed here and thirty prisoners taken.

  • Nash Alley--a good many enemy killed and seven prisoners taken.

  • A very large number of German dead were counted in the recaptured position, and a considerable number of prisoners taken.

  • This increased resistance of the Teutonic forces found expression, also, in a considerable decrease in the number of prisoners taken by the Russians.

  • With such treatment it was no wonder that but eight hundred out of the 2800 prisoners taken at Fort Washington survived.

  • Henry Franklin affirms that about two days after the taking of Fort Washington he was in New York, and went to the North Church, in which were about 800 prisoners taken in said Fort.

  • Slade says 800 prisoners taken at Fort Washington were put into the North church.

  • By this time two Austrian armies had been shattered, over three hundred and fifty thousand prisoners taken, and nearly a million men put out of action.

  • Prisoners taken at the end of the battle told them that the English had lost four thousand,--a statement which they readily accepted, though the prisoners could have known little more about the matter than they themselves.

  • Prisoners taken on the Hudson and despatches from Versailles had made it certain that Loudon was bound to Louisbourg, carrying with him the best of the troops that had guarded the New York frontier.

  • Prisoners taken by war parties near Crown Point gave exaggerated reports of hostile preparation, and doubled and trebled the forces that were mustering against Canada.

  • German reinforcements from the trenches north of the Pripet River tried to stay the Russian rush, but in vain, and many Germans were among the prisoners taken.

  • The German General Staff, in announcing the capture, added that they could not estimate the number of prisoners taken.

  • The actual number of prisoners taken was 1,496, including six peers.

  • A fact to be noted is that there was already a considerable Teutonic element in the island in the shape of many numeri formed out of prisoners taken in the chronic wars on the Rhine.

  • The number of prisoners taken in Galicia since June 12 has been increased by several thousands.

  • The total number of prisoners taken is 8 officers and 777 of other ranks.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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