8 sentences with 'veterans'
Example sentences and phrases with the word veterans and other words derived from it.
• « Julius Caesar filled the Senate with his supporters and established military colonies in the lands he had conquered as a reward for his loyal troops (who became guarantors of Roman power in those lands, as the veterans and their families would now live there permanently). »
• « Roman legions were subdivided into cohorts of 480 men, each of which was led by a centurion, veterans who had risen through the ranks to lead. »
• « The war, for many people, represented a cathartic liberation. War did not represent real bloodshed and horror for the young men who signed up - they had never fought in real wars, except for veterans of colonial wars against much less well-armed "natives" in the colonies. »
• « Italian fascism was an invention of Italian army veterans. Foremost among them was Benito Mussolini, a combat veteran who had welcomed the war as an opportunity to cleanse and invigorate Italy to grow into a more powerful nation. He was deeply disappointed by its lacklustre consequences. »
• « Unlike most veterans of the war, Hitler experienced combat and trench service as exhilarating and satisfying, and had no compassion; later, during World War II, he shocked his own generals by his callousness in expending German lives to achieve symbolic military objectives. »
• « After the war, Hitler was sent by the army to the southern German city of Munich, which was filled with angry, disenchanted army veterans like himself. His mission was to investigate a small right-wing group, the German Workers' Party. »
• « The veterans of the protest movement had become accustomed to interpreting British actions in the worst possible way, so the 1773 Act appeared to be part of a grand conspiracy against liberty. »
• « Gage's actions led to the formation of local rebel militias that could be mobilised in a minute. These "minutemen", many of whom were veterans of the French and Indian War, played an important role in the war for independence. »