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Example sentences for "victorious army"

  • At the head of a victorious army, he passed the Alps, subdued the kingdom of Italy, delivered the pope, and forever fixed the Imperial crown in the name and nation of Germany.

  • Without the appearance of an enemy, a victorious army dispersed or retreated in disorder and consternation; and Alexius, who had trembled for his empire, rejoiced in his deliverance.

  • The Saracens were received as the deliverers of the Jacobite church; and a secret and effectual treaty was opened during the siege of Memphis between a victorious army and a people of slaves.

  • With this came the authority to recruit his force to six thousand men, and its baptism, by imperial order, with the sonorous and thrilling title of Chun Chen Chun, or the Ever-Victorious Army.

  • The Imperial Chinese Government was very grateful for their aid, and conferred upon them a high-sounding name which meant, "Ever-Victorious Army.

  • Li Hung Chang, the statesman, who was later known as the Grand Old Man of China, came to the British commander General Stavely, and asked him to appoint a British officer to lead the Ever-Victorious Army.

  • Holland traded too much on the invincibility of the Ever-Victorious Army, and attacked a strongly fortified position at Taitsan.

  • The "Ever-Victorious Army" was happy in the opportuneness of its death.

  • They even who had quitted the victorious army at Zara, who had so severely blamed the expedition to Constantinople, believed that the will of God called them to the shores of the Bosphorus, and they abandoned the Holy Land.

  • Afdhal, at the head of a victorious army, soon carried terror to the banks of the Nile.

  • The command of the Ever-Victorious army reverted to Burgevine, but later, through British intrigue, to General Gordon.

  • His Ever-Victorious Army, as it was afterward termed, entered upon a campaign of glorious victory.

  • Even if La Serna did succeed in pushing toward Buenos Aires, San Martin could recross the Andes and strike him in flank with a victorious army.

  • Bolivar himself was president of the confederation of Venezuela, New Granada, and Ecuador, as well as dictator of Lower Peru, and at the head of a victorious army of Colombians.

  • But soon so well had Gordon's army earned its name of "The Ever-Victorious Army," that the mere sight of the uniform they wore frightened the rebels.

  • Instead of resigning he once more led the Ever-Victorious Army, and led it to victory.

  • Both were disastrous to the reputation of the Ever-Victorious Army.

  • The best record of his career in China is a work by Mr. Andrew Wilson called "The Ever-Victorious Army.

  • So successful was he, that the Pekin authorities conferred on his troops the pretentious title of "Ever-Victorious Army.

  • As commander of the Ever-Victorious Army he was a personage to be considered even by foreign governments.

  • The favorable opinion formed of "the Ever-Victorious Army" by the action at Kachiaou was confirmed by the more serious affair at Tseedong; and Mr. Bruce at Pekin brought it under the favorable notice of Prince Kung and the Chinese government.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    almost every; covenant between; entered upon; fair and; glass works; good anchorage; great longing; heavenly light; heavy swell; high command; natural world; preserve their; receiving intelligence; rich man; seemed suddenly; things stood; time the; tremulous voice; ultra vires; victorious army; well aware; world government