5 sentences with 'outnumbered'
Example sentences and phrases with the word outnumbered and other words derived from it.
• « The defeat of France and its Allied British Expeditionary Force is, in retrospect, all the more disappointing because the combined Allied forces outnumbered their German enemies and could, arguably, have put up a tough fight. »
• « The Persian armies had landed on the plain of Marathon - 40 kilometres north of Athens - with their 100,000 infantry and 10,000 horsemen. The Athenians, vastly outnumbered, met them and forced them back to the sea; this defensive tactic is recognised as a masterpiece of military art. »
• « Thousands of Americans, mainly from the slave states, flocked to Texas and quickly outnumbered the Tajanos, the Mexican residents of the region. »
• « Hopelessly outnumbered, his two hundred defenders, under Travis' command, fought fiercely from their refuge at an old mission known as the Alamo. Within ten days, however, the mission was taken and all but a few of the defenders were dead, including Travis and James Bowie, the famous frontiersman who was also a land speculator and slave trader. »