This force was intended to proceed direct to Richmond, or to march into undefended Petersburg, as the case might seem best to warrant.
The result being known, it naturally followed that this city--undefended by works of any description and with an army inadequate to its protection--had to be abandoned.
There was no general attack, but a few brigades would be thrown against some ill-defended work here; and almost simultaneously the undefended lines there would have a force hurled against them.
What, then, was to have prevented her from destroying the undefended villages of Charleston, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston?
By making a feint at one point, and then pulling for another at some distance from the first, the boats gained an undefended part of the shore before the French could come up with them.
Once the Russian border was absolutely undefended and the way to Petrograd and Moscow wide open, Germany could not resist the temptation to march on in continued aggression, regardless of treaty or promises or peace or morality.
Poverty has so many wants to be supplied, wealth so many seductions to offer, that it may be affirmed he is not worse than his fellows whose heart has only one undefended bastion.
This enormous coast of undefended shore was pierced by river after river whose broad, deep waters would carry the gunboats of an enemy into the heart of the South.
He occupied the undefended camp; but the slaves, although surprised, made a stand.
The ranks on the Aventine speedily thinned; the valiant nobility in union with the Cretans and the slaves stormed the almost undefended mount, and killed all whom they found, about 250 persons, mostly of humble rank.
Much, however, was hoped from so powerful an attack on an undefended point; and the Sultaun’s order was delivered to the army on the afternoon of Kasim’s report.
The multitude of the city rose in response to the cry, and clamouring crowds, giving vent to their restrained feelings, burst armed and angry and thousand-throated into the undefended Kreml.
He could bring out a squadron to bombard undefended towns, but, menaced by an enemy who could hit back, he realised that his game was up.
Lieutenant Koerner found that it was much more easy to lurk submerged in the tideways of commerce and to attack undefended merchant ships or fishing boats.
The Germans, indeed, had received a very sound and thorough whipping in punishment for their attempt to rush over to England and bombard undefended towns.
Straight across from Wilhelmshaven they had made their bold dash for the English coast to bombard a couple of undefended towns which they might attack without venturing too far south or too far north, or lingering too long.
This again is undefended and the decree nisi goes as of course.
The Court makes a fourteen days' order on the undefended petition.
When at last we are through the barrier, and regain the undefended inland region, there is a great feeling of relief.
The absence of searchlights and shell fire in these undefended regions makes one forget that from town to town, from village to village, the report of our progress is sent to a thousand military centres in a vast radius.
Such confidence have I in our safety, so lovely is the moon-drenched night, so friendly are the undefended skies, that we fly on and on as in a stupor of utter bliss.
The position exposed to this "terrific" fire was simply a few open stockades, undefendedby artillery.
They told him how desperately lonesome and undefended she had felt.
She had looked to him like the Mother of Sorrows and, though the shock of that vision was over, she seemed to him now scarcely less touching in her beautiful maternity and her undefended state.
And so the Capitol, with its doors fast shut, undefended and unplundered, was burnt to the ground.
He had, in fact, induced a large proportion of the senate to demand that Faustus should be sent to execution undefended and unheard.
No, of one thing I am sure-- you never killed an undefended man.
You tell me you saw Dyck Calhoun do this to an undefended man--you tell me this!
Egypt had enough to do in defending herself against the nearer enemy in Syria, and was obliged to leave her possessions in Asia Minor and the Cyclades undefended when Philip threw himself upon these as his share of the spoil.
The undefended walls were scaled, and the garrison was put to death; the prisoners were liberated and the stores were burnt; unfortunately, there was a want of troops to hold the important position.
Then they made what was, to Dick, the most important part of the inspection; namely, an examination of the undefended portion of the rock.
He had had an interest in Robin as a creature representing peculiar loveliness and undefended potentialities.
And yet if these wild things were true, here in a wintry wood she sat a desolate and undefended thing--with but one thought.
It had been arranged that, as there was a large open field without bush or tree in the rear of the ranch, they should leave that side undefended at first.
There was also a window in this room opening upon the back of the house and commanding the field which we have before mentioned as being undefended while the battle was waged outside.
And on the Atlantic Coast of the United States there are hundreds of miles of utterly undefended beach where any number of men can land as easily as if they were trippers landing for a picnic.
Army and naval officers, both American and foreign, believe that 5,000 men would be more than sufficient to take such works if they are manned only by their Coast Artillery companies and undefended by a mobile army.
The narrow passage, and the undefended trench, were both facts of the most obvious and impressive character to an observing soldier.
Cyrus passes theundefended trench—Kunaxa—sudden appearance of the king’s army—preparation of Cyrus for battle.
They would moreover have been stopped by the undefended Trench, which could only be passed at the narrow opening close to the Euphrates.
They found the ravine undefended (according to the usual stupidity of Persian proceedings), but when they had got nearly a mile beyond it, Mithridates reappeared in pursuit with a body of four thousand horsemen and darters.
The distance of the undefended trench from the battle-field of Kunaxa would be about twenty-two miles.
From Pylæ to the undefended trench, there intervened three entire days of march, and one part of a day; for it occurred in the fourth day’s march.
Kmita, it is true, was bound to supply it with infantry; but if he had not done so, the undefended castle would easily become plunder for the insolent colonel.
Harasimovich told the nobles that the wagons would go to Tykotsin in Podlyasye, for it was dangerous to leave the treasury in the undefended castle of Kyedani.
Go to Volkovysk and destroy those ruffians who are threatening anundefended town.
He was aware that 'Manda always lay in wait for him, to pierce him at every undefended hint of conscience.
Again looking back, he saw her in the undefended grace that had bewildered him before.
You left England undefended that you might posture a little in the eyes of Europe.
Camoys lightly eluded him and slashed at Osmund's undefended thigh, drawing much blood.
