continental war

But brothers wrote home in the 1940's to warn their sisters that the continental war "was no place for women".

Britain found itself facing a continental war it was not militarily prepared for.

Soto the only one credited with three kills in an American continental war.

He became a soldier and came into contact with many of the great leaders of the continental wars.

The lack of an heir made another continental war of succession a possibility.

On July 27, he followed with a cable arguing that Germany could not win a continental war.

The sense is growing on both sides in Europe that the threat of Continental war is ending.

Perhaps they helped persuade the British to follow a policy which kept them out of almost all the continental wars of the next quarter-century.

Napoleon gave up on an empire in North America to use the purchase money to help finance Continental wars.

The benefits were clear but there were risks, namely that Russia would intervene and this would lead to a continental war.

He also kept Ringwood iron operating, as the manufacture was important to supplying the Continental war effort.

The first is that we should begin a continental war with the European powers as a huge diversion, including a declaration of war on Spain.

The organisation was run by men from working-class labouring backgrounds who were against increases in military spending or intervention in continental wars.

As they had done in the interludes between continental wars, they moved from station to station, sometimes being called upon to support local civilian authorities.

The military involvement of England in continental war meant an unusually high concern for achieving and maintaining some measure of control of the sea.

On the expectation that Great Britain would become involved in a continental war, in 1727, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general.

The From the Ashes boxed set, published in 1992, advanced this storyline by a decade, involving a continental war and its aftermath.

In August he attacked the government for conducting a continental war, inveighing against peculation in high places and the sale of offices at court.

Two brothers were soldiers together in some Continental war, and one was involuntarily the means of discovering and exposing the treason of the other.

In the continental war to protect Africa's elephants, the rangers patrol the 12,400 sqkm park, risking their lives to to win the ivory war.

The Scots were drawn into King William II's continental wars.

In fact, the European powers were edging towards engaging in a continental war because of Morocco in 1905.

I am supplying her by mail with subject-matter for her 'Conduct of the Continental Wars.'"

This marked a sudden reversal in the policies of William Pitt, as he had previously been opposed to further British financial commitments to a continental war.

This article plus maps was also published in The Foreign Correspondent, the journal of the Continental Wars Society.