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1. The sudden movement of the army corps into the narrow trail retarded Lawton for several hours
2. Democrats have been shamefully exploiting this unhappy event for political reasons; unyielding in their persistence that poverty and racism are (somehow) the underlying factors responsible for this (―avoidable‖) tragedy when, in fact, it was the result of ―unintended‖ consequences precipitated by decades of political cynicism, cronyism, mis-management, fiscal incompetence and (local) corruption at every conceivable level; this despite the forewarnings of field experts (Army Corps of Engineers) citing potential or probably breaches in drainage canal levees since the Johnson Administration
3. “He received extensive training in demolitions for both military operations and in support of the Army Corps of Engineers
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5. Army Corps of Engineers fined a Minnesota farmer
6. Army Corps of Engineers official
7. Army Corps of Engineers
8. He swiftly raised an army corps
9. Army Corps of Engineers estimated that by 2020, with 250 million tons of raw sewage regularly being dumped each year into the bay, it would be turned into a mere shipping channel
10. Eventually, she and her husband, a major in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, adopted me and I was finally pardoned by the British, who then let me leave for the United States after the death of both Nancy and her husband
11. Army Corps, Major General Byers, who was still sporting a bandaged wound from the battle for Buna, leaned forward as Blamey finished speaking
12. First Army Corps, gave her a bemused look
13. If MacArthur expected a strong response, then he was not disappointed, as Ingrid didn’t flinch at the tone used by the commander of the First Army Corps
14. were never shelved by the Army Corps of Engineers
15. I"ve had numerous deliberations with the Army Corps of Engineers
16. I wil not be going to the planet with you but I was a Captain with the Army Corps of Engineers that constructed the first habitat on Mars I have spent more time on the surface of the planet than almost anyone else
17. AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH
18. As the army corps advances
19. And my father’s sitting in a VA hospital still thinking he’s heading up an Army corps
20. In Anna Pavlovna’s circle only those Frenchmen were admitted who were deep-rooted legitimists, and patriotic views were expressed to the effect that one ought not to go to the French theater and that to maintain the French troupe was costing the government as much as a whole army corps
21. When he ran his mind over the whole of this strange Russian campaign in which not one battle had been won, and in which not a flag, or cannon, or army corps had been captured in two months, when he looked at the concealed depression on the faces around him and heard reports of the Russians still holding their ground- a terrible feeling like a nightmare took possession of him, and all the unlucky accidents that might destroy him occurred to his mind
22. In view of all this information, when the enemy has scattered his forces in large detachments, and with Napoleon and his Guards in Moscow, is it possible that the enemy’s forces confronting you are so considerable as not to allow of your taking the offensive? On the contrary, he is probably pursuing you with detachments, or at most with an army corps much weaker than the army entrusted to you
23. Each of them desired nothing more than to give himself up as a prisoner to escape from all this horror and misery; but on the one hand the force of this common attraction to Smolensk, their goal, drew each of them in the same direction; on the other hand an army corps could not surrender to a company, and though the French availed themselves of every convenient opportunity to detach themselves and to surrender on the slightest decent pretext, such pretexts did not always occur
24. Still more senseless would have been the wish to capture army corps of the French, when our own army had melted away to half before reaching Krasnoe and a whole division would have been needed to convoy the corps of prisoners, and when our men were not always getting full rations and the prisoners already taken were perishing of hunger
25. He was obliged to wait for the body of the army corps, and he had received orders to concentrate his forces before entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, Blucher ordered Bulow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words: "We must give air to the English army
26. ” The “engagement” really amounted to this—Neverofsky’s division, while hurriedly withdrawing towards Smolensk, was overtaken by Murat and surrounded by thirty regiments of cavalry, together with Nansouty’s and Grouchy’s army corps and the Light Brigade
27. But the reports sent in at night by the commanders of the various army corps as to the disordered condition of the different divisions, and above all as to the scantiness of ammunition, caused him to change his plans
28. The Commanders of Army Corps were directed to present tables showing the number of sick who could recover, (1) within a week; (2) within a fortnight; (3) within a month; and secondly, the number who would probably die, (1) within a fortnight; (2) within three weeks
29. Napoleon concentrated the various army corps that were stationed outside the city on the Moskva, and reviewed them even more frequently than before
30. Some portion of the 9th Army Corps managed to cross the river, but the greater part was destroyed
31. The 2nd and 9th Army Corps kept perfect order, though they had to endure much the same cold as the main army
32. On one occasion the whole of the 4th Army Corps refused to move, and it was only by the most vigorous persuasion that the Duke of Neufchâtel induced them to stir out of the room,—for one roomful constituted the whole of this corps of the Grande Armée!
33. “Our horror,” says Labaume, “was indescribable when we first learned on the outskirts of Smolensk that the 9th Army Corps had already marched on, that the troops were not to stay at Smolensk, and that such provisions as there were had already been exhausted
34. In Anna Pávlovna’s circle only those Frenchmen were admitted who were deep-rooted legitimists, and patriotic views were expressed to the effect that one ought not to go to the French theater and that to maintain the French troupe was costing the government as much as a whole army corps
35. When he ran his mind over the whole of this strange Russian campaign in which not one battle had been won, and in which not a flag, or cannon, or army corps had been captured in two months, when he looked at the concealed depression on the faces around him and heard reports of the Russians still holding their ground—a terrible feeling like a nightmare took possession of him, and all the unlucky accidents that might destroy him occurred to his mind
36. Each of them desired nothing more than to give himself up as a prisoner to escape from all this horror and misery; but on the one hand the force of this common attraction to Smolénsk, their goal, drew each of them in the same direction; on the other hand an army corps could not surrender to a company, and though the French availed themselves of every convenient opportunity to detach themselves and to surrender on the slightest decent pretext, such pretexts did not always occur
