For this enterprise most of the regular regiments were withdrawn from the Rio Grande; and General Taylor, the hero of Palo Alto and Monterey, was left with a small army, composed principally of volunteers, to hold the conquered provinces.
Nor can the theory be sustained that a small army, invading a rich and populous country, would be "stung to death" by the numbers of its foes, even if they dared not oppose it in the open field.
The idea that a small army, opposed to one vastly superior, cannot afford to attack because the attack is costly, and that it must trust for success to favourable ground, had been effectually dispelled.
In time, from being a band of outlaws, his party grew to the dimensions of a small army, and in place of contenting himself with local reprisals on the English, he cherished the design of striking for the independence of his country.
He landed at Whitsand Bay, on the coast of Cornwall, issued a proclamation under the title of Richard the Fourth of England, and quickly found himself in command of a small army of Cornishmen.
The action appears to have been well contested, but the superior tactics and weapons of Kin Shun's small army prevailed; and the Mussulman army retreated with considerable loss and in great disorder.
Montgomery, with a small army, was sent to capture Montreal and then to march down the St. Lawrence to Quebec.
The English government now sent General Braddock with a small army of regular soldiers to Virginia.
Governor William Henry Harrison of Indiana Territory gathered a small army of regular soldiers and volunteers from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.
They set out on these hunting expeditions with quite a small army of charioteers and infantry, and were often away several days at a time, provided urgent business did not require their presence in the palace.
All that he had, in addition to his former surroundings, were a priesthood attached to the court, and a small army entirely at his own disposal.
To relieve it William the Marshal set out with a small army, and, surprising the enemy in the streets of the town, while they were busied in the siege, he inflicted a great defeat upon them.
On hearing of this rising in the west, Montfort hurried to the Welsh border with a small army, taking the king in his train.
Richard raised a small army of Anglo-Norman knights and Welsh archers--less than 2000 men in all--and landed in Ireland to restore Dermot to his throne.
The earl of Warwick had besieged Montargis with a small army of three thousand men, and the place was reduced to extremity, when the bastard of Orleans undertook to throw relief into it.
Then there were the spindles of a discarded spinning-wheel, and a small army of spools which my aunt used for winding linen thread.
By this time Herod had sailed out of Italy to Ptolemais, and had gotten together no small army, both of strangers and of his own countrymen, and marched through Galilee against Antignus.
The château was closed and in the hands of a small army of caretakers.
Half a dozen officers from the yacht, as many men in civilian flannels, and a small army of servants were being borne in the palanquins.
The League was strong in force against him: he had few friends, few fortresses, no money, and a small army.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small army" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
