7 sentences with 'camp'
Example sentences and phrases with the word camp and other words derived from it.
• « Spartacus set up a war camp on the slopes of the volcano Vesuvius, to which thousands of slaves fled, culminating in an "army" of about 70,000. »
• « As a boy, Caligula moved with his father, a famous and beloved general related by marriage to the Julians, from army camp to army camp. »
• « The French controlled the towns and most of the villages, but even a few yards beyond the outskirts of a French camp they could fall victim to a sudden ambush. »
• « Ultimately, it was the Russians who defeated Napoleon's armies in 1812, thanks in large part to winter and their brilliant tactical decision to camp and wait for the French to run out of supplies. »
• « The first concentration camp was opened within weeks of Hitler's appointment as chancellor in 1933, and a vast network of police forces soon watched over the German population. »
• « The Nazi SS had the right to hold anyone indefinitely, without trial, in "protective custody" in a concentration camp, and the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo, was only part of the SS. »
• « Concentration camp prisoners (both Jewish and non-Jewish) were all, by definition, slaves of the Nazi regime, put to work in factories, quarries, forests and workshops and "paid" in meagre rations. »