8 sentences with 'soldiers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word soldiers and other words derived from it.
• « For example, it was common for soldiers to take some ointments into battle to treat their wounds. »
• « Biongue is a rehabilitation center for the maimed. Eighteen hundred soldiers and civilians live there: men, women and children who lost limbs after stepping on planted mines. »
• « However, it was not Renaissance ideas that had the greatest impact on the world at that time. Instead, it was European soldiers, settlers and, more consequently, diseases. »
• « However, evidence (based on inscriptions) suggests that most soldiers were peasant conscripts with little or no armour and light weapons. »
• « Sargon also created the world's first standing army, a group of soldiers employed by the state who had no other jobs or duties. »
• « An inscription states that '5,400 soldiers ate daily in his palace', and there are graphic records not only of soldiers, but of siege weapons and mining (digging under the walls of enemy fortifications to make them collapse). »
• « Egyptian soldiers were often no more than peasants armed with copper knives, spears with copper heads, or even just sticks. »
• « There were never more than 8,000 Spartan soldiers, along with another 20,000 or so free non-citizens (inhabitants of cities near Sparta who were not considered to be landlords, but free but subservient subjects), overseeing a much larger population of landlords. »