27 Metaphors for campaigns

The campaign was more a court progress than a series of battles.

As regards future naval policy it was pointed out that the enemy submarine campaign was the dominating factor to such an extent that any sustained increase in the then rate of sinking merchant ships might eventually prove disastrous.

The campaign now became a contest of brains between Lee and the Federal authorities.

To make the campaign was the dearest wish of Harry's life.

And without doubt the campaigns of 1845-46 and 1848-49 were the hardest in which we had been engaged in India.

The campaigns that followed were hard and long-drawn-out struggles, especially against South China, where there was no booty, because the enemy retired so slowly that they could take everything with them.

Thus these campaigns, though I do not think they brought actual economic ruin to China, were nevertheless a costly enterprise, and one which produced little positive advantage.

Another campaign was a necessity, to the disgust and humiliation of the British government and the wrath of George III.

His campaign of the Shenandoah Valley was a whirlwind of success.

The campaign was a complete success.

The campaign which Shere Ali directed on the borders of Chiltistan is now matter of history, and may be read of, by whoso wills, in the Blue-books and despatches of the time.

As is well known, the first campaign of Antony against Armenians and Parthians was a signal failure, and it was only with great difficulty that he escaped the fate of Crassus.

When the party of reformers reached Indiana, where the pro-slavery spirit was always strong, the State having been settled largely by Southerners, their campaign of education became a running fight, in which Douglass, whose dark skin attracted most attention, often got more than his share.

Their submarine campaign is only the feeble shadow of what a submarine campaign might be.

The campaign of 1524 in Italy, brilliant as was its beginning, what with the number and the fine appearance of the troops under Bonnivet's orders, was, as it went on, nothing but a series of hesitations, contradictory movements, blunders, and checks, which the army itself set down to its general's account.

The campaign of Regulus is an instance how singularly they adhered to the idea that superiority in tactics decides everything.

The Etowah campaign was the last military service rendered by Sevier, and the only one for which he ever received compensation from the government.

A modest lot, a fame petite, A brief campaign of sting and sweet Is plenty!

Wayne had shown himself the best general ever sent to war with the Northwestern Indians; and his victorious campaign was the most noteworthy ever carried on against them, for it brought about the first lasting peace on the border, and put an end to the bloody turmoil of forty years' fighting.

From the time McClellan started forming his new army until the Peninsular campaign was six months, if I remember rightly.

The campaign was largely an engineers' and an artilleryman's war, waged in the mountains, much of it in regions of perpetual snowhighly picturesque and spectacular.

Yet, in truth, the "Campaign" is not a great poem, nor, properly speaking, if we except the Angel, a poem at all.

Two campaigns have been the bloody partisans of this earnest pen: the impending one will cheerfully undertake its final vindication.

" The campaign of 1840 was the most novel, exciting, and memorable that had yet taken place.

The campaign in the Crimea was in reality the siege of a single fortress.

27 Metaphors for  campaigns