Example sentences of "[num] ['s] army " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , if in a much more restrained manner , the Englishman , John Page , himself a soldier in Henry V 's army , described in detail and in passages of considerable emotion the sufferings of the helpless civilians during the six-month-long siege of Rouen which ended in January 1419 . |
| 2 | The gun was a rifle , Russian military issue , assigned to him when he was conscripted into Tsar Alexander III 's army on 17 August 1881 . |
| 3 | His father , an officer in William III 's army , moved to London in 1689 and Paul was apprenticed to his fellow Huguenot , the goldsmith Pierre Platel , in August 1703 . |
| 4 | The Faculty of Music owes its existence to General John Reid , soldier in George III 's army , music lover , amateur composer and benefactor . |
| 5 | By the time of Napoleon 's war against Prussia and his defeat of Frederick William III 's armies at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806 , the people of Danzig were far from disloyal to the Prussian cause , far from willing to throw off Prussian rule , lest they be handed over to some form of Polish domination . |
| 6 | Philip VI 's armies had taken key English positions along the Garonne , and Philip had been promising grants and pensions to those Gascons who would enter his obedience . |
| 7 | James and Joan had three sons , one of whom became a major in Charles II 's army and drowned in the river at Pershore . |
| 8 | In 1686 the English envoy to the States General , Bevil Skelton [ q.v. ] , and some of James II 's army officers attempted to kidnap Peyton and bring him back to England , but failed , and the affair caused a diplomatic incident . |
| 9 | On the whole , although there is an exception in 583 , when Childebert II 's army refused to obey the policies of bishop Egidius of Rheims , the military followers of the Merovingians liked to fight : a battle brought hope of booty . |
| 10 | The bulk of Mar 's forces were still with him at Perth and his total force was now perhaps 10,000 strong ; the Duke of Argyll , in command of George I 's army in Scotland , had no more than 4000 . |
| 11 | The Cinque Ports received an admiral on the pattern of Bayonne 's admiral , created in 1295 , and ships from Bayonne brought supplies of wine , corn , flour and other victuals to Edward I 's army in Wales during March and April 1283 . |
| 12 | The infantry of Edward I 's armies were recruited by commissioners of array who were required to select men from each shire for service in the army . |
| 13 | The battle , in which d'Artagnan lost his life , shows Louis XIV 's army before the walls and is painted by the workshop of R.A. Houasse ( est . |
| 14 | In the decade 1420–30 , a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's army was composed of Scots who fought at both Cravant and Verneuil , a strong contingent of Genoese also taking part in this second battle against the English . |
| 15 | His breadth of interest will be noted by those who have read his interesting Men-at-Arms book on Henry VIII 's army , or his work on the firearms of the Chinese Nationalist forces 1937–45 in the IWM Review . |