The terrible tragedy of war was inducted by a prologue of burning villages, trampled harvests and massacred peasants, upon the frontiers.
A large squadron of ships of war was riding at anchor there.
This emphatic declaration of war was followed on both sides by the mustering of armies.
War was a pastime for their fierce spirits, and their bold chief led them to victory and abundant booty.
As soon as war was upon us, Wood and I began to try for a chance to go to the front.
Under him, the scene of war was changed, and new maxims adopted, which necessity dictated, and the issue justified.
Meanwhile, a council of war was held at Torgau, between the King of Sweden and the Elector of Saxony, at which the Elector of Brandenburg was also present.
You will remember that the army assembled in the Polish kingdom during the Crimean War was so large that this war might have ended differently if the army had started on time.
The French Reserves were called to arms July 15th, and only four days later the French declaration of war washanded in at Berlin, as though this were an opportunity not to be lost.
But above all the plan of war was based on the resolve to attack the enemy at once, wherever found, and keep the German forces so compact that a superior force could always be brought into the field.
In organization, engineering, strategy, offence and defence, the art of war was in the barbarous and the savage status or grade.
Any jurisdiction of the Scottish court over prize of war was transferred to the English court by the Court of Session Act 1825, sec.
War was proclaimed; a tacit truce kept the year quiet.
A number of new settlers was added, and the land of those who had fallen in war was assigned to them.
The whole policy of Roman war and conquest rested, like the constitution itself, on the basis of the freehold system; as the freeholder alone was of value in the state, the aim of war was to increase the number of its freehold members.
Nothing essential to the conduct of a war was at hand," says Comines.
After regaining his former position, a council of war was summoned to deliberate on the course next to be pursued.
War was regarded as a game, in which the sovereign parties engaged, not on behalf of their subjects, but exclusively on their own.
Mother was here with me, but she went home just before war was declared.
The Lancers were ordered here immediately war was declared, to help check the advance of the invader.
I was reading about them long before war was declared.
War was a return to savagery, and the worse it became, the better Jimmie's argument went.
But, meantime, war was here; and calling it wrong did not put a stop to it!
Breakfast over, Harry retired to his room, put on a fresh suit from his wallet, and rejoined his companions, when a sort of council of war was held.
The Royalists of England were slow to perceive how far the Commons intended to press their demands, and could scarcely believe that civil war was really to break out.
The journals of the world are at this time full of the details of a war such as that world has not witnessed since 1815, and in comparison with which even the Russian War was but a second-rate contest.
To those who had closely scanned the affairs of Europe, and who observed them by the light of the history of nearly four centuries, the coming of war was no surprise.
Their part was to make protest, and record it, and wait for justice until the war was ended.
The Barabbas of war was preferred to the Christ of righteous judgment.
But the concrete and definite occasion of war was lacking.
The curtain which had half-concealed the scene went up with a rush, and the missing occasion of war was revealed in the flash of a pistol.
He ignored the demand for a cessation of hostilities and the declaration that the war was a failure.
He immediately moved another resolution declaring that the communication from the Secretary of War was "not responsive nor satisfactory to the House, and that the secretary be directed to return a further answer.
Recruiting for the army and navy became active as soon as war was declared.
Already much of it had been shattered by the long-range German guns, and prolonged resistance against these tremendous engines of war was impossible.
A council of war was summoned at once, and without asking their opinion he quietly told them he was going to attack.
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