12 sentences with 'troops'
Example sentences and phrases with the word troops and other words derived from it.
• « The troops of the guerrilla Savimbi - volunteers who joined him out of hatred for the foreign occupation - receive no pay, only rations and uniforms. »
• « As long as they were loyal, paid taxes and sent troops when called upon, Persian kings had no problem letting their subjects practise their own religions, use their own languages and carry out their own trade practices and customs. »
• « There were around 25,000 Persian troops - this was an 'expeditionary force', not a large army, against which the Athenians deployed 10,000 hoplites. »
• « He hired mercenaries to supplement his Macedonian troops, ending up with the largest army Macedonia had ever seen. »
• « Following the invasion, Philip II created a new league of Greek cities under his control and established troops throughout Greece. »
• « Although Alexander the Great had arrived in Anatolia with only 45,000 men, against a potential Persian army of about 300,000, the Persians had far fewer troops at any given time during the early years of Alexander's campaign. »
• « King Pyrrhus won two major battles against the Romans, but in the process lost two-thirds of his troops. »
• « Pyrrhus took his remaining troops and returned to Greece. After his flight, the south was unable to put up much resistance, and all of Italy was under Roman control by 263 BC. »
• « His decision to remove the property requirement made his troops totally dependent on him for plunder and land distribution after campaigns, undermining their loyalty to the Republic. »
• « Likewise, although roads were often built with the movement of troops in mind, people everywhere could take advantage of them for trade. »
• « As the centuries passed, Rome became increasingly dependent both on Germanic troops and on the allied tribes' confrontation with hostile ones. »