2112 examples of invasion in sentences

CHAPTER IV INVASION 1775 Carleton's first eight years as governor of Canada were almost entirely occupied with civil administration.

But all men's minds were even then turned towards the Montreal frontier, whence the American invasion threatened to overspread the whole country and make this opening session the last that might ever be held.

On the 27th of May the Congress closed the phase of individual raids and inaugurated the phase of regular invasion by commissioning General Schuyler to 'pursue any measures in Canada that may have a tendency to promote the peace and security of these Colonies.'

The plan of invasion approved by Washington was, first, to sweep the line of the Richelieu by taking St Johns and Chambly, then to take Montreal, next to secure the line of the St Lawrence, and finally to besiege Quebec.

Livingston hurried off to join Montgomery with four hundred 'patriots' who served their cause fairly well till the invasion was over.

The root of 'all the disorders' lay in the fact that a makeshift government was obliged to use makeshift levies for an invasion which required a regular army supported by a fleet.

Arnold, moreover, could devote his whole attention to the work, makeshift as it had to be; while Carleton was obliged to keep moving about the province in an effort to bring it into some sort of order after the late invasion.

The recent invasion had proved this up to the hilt.

The first step was to be the assassination of all obnoxious officials and leading British patriots the minute the promised invasion began to prove successful.

But another invasion, much more modern, is to be feared, that of the sands, now that the saksaouls intended to bring the sandhills to a standstill, have almost completely disappeared.

In this year, 1513, died Julius II., the great warrior Pope, a constant foe to the French, and he was succeeded by the Cardinal dei Medici, Pope Leo X. Louis XII., having most reluctantly withdrawn his troops from Italy, now prepared to meet an invasion of Picardy by the English.

near Calais; a most convenient place for the invasion of France, as it was in possession of the English.

This particular detachment had been cut off in Brussels by the tide of German invasion, and, as food-supplies were running short, they determined to make a dashperhaps crawl would be a better wordfor Ostend, making the journey in two lumbering farm wagons.

The whole proceeding was irregular and unauthorized, of course, but for that matter so was the German invasion of Belgium.

In the French invasion he was called by the French Le Capitaine Noir.

Even the Prado itself is the victim of commercial invasion.

Mexico and Colombia, in 1825, planned to invade the island, and at that time invasion was sure to be successful.

Not often did such great wars occur as the Dahomey invasion of the Whidah country in 1726 and the general fighting of the Gambia peoples in 1733-1734 to glut the outward bound ships with slave cargoes.

The negroes were governed under laws modeled quite closely upon the slave code of Barbados, with the striking exception that in this period of danger from Spanish invasion most of the slave men were required by law to be trained in the use of arms and listed as an auxiliary militia.

To achieve that, he must maintain legal and political monopolies, and prevent the invasion of political life by living interests.

The march of peaceful is scarce less wanton than that of warlike invasion.

Anger was a part of the angry man himself, and could only be checked by the invasion of some other passion, love, for instance, or fear, which was equally, while it lasted, a part of self.

HISTORY of the ANCIENT BRITONS, From the Earliest Period to the Invasion of the Saxons.

He would make his hostile invasion in all haste so as not to be obliged to endure for a long time the formidable pressure of the abyss.

His people were, however, extremely ignorant of maritime affairs, and in the progress of having them taught, he was suddenly called to the south, by the invasion of the Saracens.

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