"city" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The destruction of the undefended city of little strategic importance had been ordered by Colonel James Montgomery (colonel).
- Troops were landed on 4 August, and by 8 August the undefended city of Batavia capitulated.
- Bombs and poison gas would rain down on undefended cities.
- Before this could be done the Comuneros in turn stormed the virtually undefended city and requested her support.
- If he does not take the bait and seizes the undefended city instead, then he denies us the water and grazing.
- Far overhead, a "gunboat," a bombardment ship, was attacking the undefended, unoffending city with its great beam gun.
- Despite this initial success and the prospect of a virtually undefended city immediately to his front, Smith decided to wait until dawn to resume his attack.
- On the 26th of January, Li was notified by allied Korean scouts that the Japanese forces had withdrawn from Seoul and it was now an undefended city.
- Damietta's inhabitants fled the undefended city, which was plundered for two days and then torched by the Byzantines.
- He wondered at the military mind that would bomb an undefended city with no military value but which might contain some loot that they so valued.
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