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Example sentences for "revictualling"

Lexicographically close words:
revetment; revetments; revetted; revetting; revictual; revient; review; reviewal; reviewals; reviewed
  1. This applies particularly to the other controversial questions as to revictualling of besieged places and as to intercourse, commercial and otherwise, of the inhabitants of the region where actual fighting was going on before the armistice.

  2. But I cannot see why this should be an argument to hold revictualling permissible.

  3. Thus, during the Franco-German War an armistice for twenty-five days proposed in November 1870 fell to the ground on the Germans refusing to grant the revictualling of Paris.

  4. The Turks were encamped on the right bank of the river, and their objective was the revictualling of Buda and the recovery of Pesth or Gran.

  5. Towards the middle of November, the Turks, having succeeded in their main objective, that of revictualling Buda, struck their camp and marched back to Belgrade, where their army was disbanded.

  6. At bottom of page: +Isolated Post surrounded by water, and raft used for revictualling same.

  7. It was to the effect that it would be necessary to negotiate a capitulation on January 20, in order to give time for the revictualling of the city's two million inhabitants.

  8. At a sufficient distance behind the front line immense ammunition and revictualling depĂ´ts are established.

  9. Bray-sur-Somme Throughout the offensive of 1916, Bray was an important revictualling centre, and as such, frequently bombed by German aeroplanes.

  10. The necessities arising from our conquest of the country had made it a revictualling post for our columns, and a trial had just been made there of a new sort of provision, described as rations maigres.

  11. I was busy revictualling and refitting, and reorganising my squadron, when M.

  12. He made no offer, however, of any concession with regard to the revictualling of Paris.

  13. The French want: either a peace without cession of territory; or an armistice with the revictualling of Paris for the number of days it lasts; or a European Congress to settle the terms of peace between France and Germany.

  14. The latter broached the subject to Count Arnim, the Prussian Minister at Rome, proposing that the revictualling of Paris should be accepted as a basis, and received a severe snub for his pains.

  15. He asserted that les militaires, as he always called them, made objections to the proposed revictualling of Paris and that they also had some reservations to make with respect to the suggested elections.

  16. Victualling of cities before, and their revictualling after, investment.

  17. Here is an enclosed basin covering 123 acres with ample quayage, dry docks and everything necessary to the accommodation, repair, revictualling and coaling of a numerous fleet.

  18. They fled in all directions upon the Mincio, where Wurmser himself, meanwhile, had been employed in revictualling Mantua.

  19. The revictualling of the population will be effected by the efforts of the Military Administration, assisted by the Civil Administration of Andenne constituted by the German Government, as far as possible.

  20. All questions of revictualling and welfare must be addressed directly to the Administrations of Andenne and Seilles, which have also the power to require the inhabitants to work.

  21. The Germans are attending to the revictualling of Andenne.

  22. This committee is a private institution in which they have no voice, which greatly annoys them; at most they can endeavour to make it believed that the revictualling of Belgium is effected with their assistance.

  23. What an indefinite perspective of fleshpots could they only lay hands on the revictualling of Belgium!

  24. The revictualling of Gibraltar surpassed even Suffren's feat of the capture of Trincomalee in the same year.

  25. Had this fleet succeeded in preventing the revictualling of the fortress the garrison would have been starved into surrender.

  26. Then a cross having been planted on a hill with great solemnity, they weighed anchor and made for the port of Zebu, as being the best for revictualling the vessels and trading.

  27. Being anxious to establish harbours for refuge, and revictualling of ships, he established there merchants' offices, and laid the foundations of forts.

  28. He would have liked to see an assembly of the Representatives of the Nation, but he freely admitted that in order to have elections we should have need of an armistice and the revictualling of Paris, which appeared difficult to obtain.

  29. Commencing with the desirability of convoking a National Assembly, I went on to say that an armistice and the revictualling of Paris, which would have allowed us to hold elections, were exactly the things that Prussia had refused.

  30. The reinforcement and revictualling of the garrison were all that Wurmser could show in requital of his lost artillery, stores and forty thousand men.

  31. The eight days during which their stay at Teneriffe lasted were given up exclusively to the revictualling of the ship, and to magnetic and astronomical observations.

  32. Bougainville turned the delay necessary for the revictualling of his division to account by paying a visit to Santiago, the capital of Chili, thirty-three leagues inland.

  33. Ramon Freire y Serrano, who gave formal assurances to the explorers that the political disturbance should be no impediment to the revictualling of the Coquille.

  34. Roads where the work of revictualling was carried on were blocked by the enemy; provisions were lacking.

  35. Hungered by the stoppage of all revictualling caravans, the Quraish finished by sending written entreaties, begging him to suppress the very clause which at first pleased them so much.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revictualling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.