There was no road between Burnsville and the position then occupied by Rosecrans and the country was impassable for a man on horseback.
At the time, the fellow was all smiles, or rather grins, because in the position I then occupied, I had been able to secure him special facilities to carry on his profitable army trading business.
In one corner of the same grounds the Governor's mansion was pointed out, then occupied by Governor Letcher, while below, or on the lower side of the square, I was shown the building occupied by President Davis for an executive office.
We were encamped on the side of the hill on the top of which was the large mansion house then occupied by Burnside and Staff.
On unpacking my trunk, in Marysville, these chamois skins were of course exposed, and a gentleman calling at the tent, which I then occupied, asked me what I would take for them.
His vanguard, under Girardot, then occupied Trujillo, and a strong detachment under D’Eluyar forced Correa to take refuge in Maracaibo.
He then occupied Pamplona, where he found the streets strewn with the corpses of Spaniards, who had been barbarously murdered by the Patriots when they evacuated that city.
Rivas then marched with 800 men upon the town of Charavaye, then occupied by the column under Rosete, and cut the Royalists to pieces, giving no quarter.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "then occupied" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
