"force" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Partly as a result of his rivalry with Coningsby for control of Herefordshire, Hereford was surrendered to a small Parliamentarian force in 1643.
- During the English Civil War, the castle was raised to the ground, by Parliamentarian forces.
- The first battle was a minor royalist victory on 9 December 1642, when a small Royalist force put to flight a smaller Parliamentarian force.
- On the night of 4 September, a Parliamentarian force of 400 infantry equipped with ladders and backed by cavalry set out to attack the castle.
- He was killed in 1645 when a Parliamentarian force besieged the Royalist-held town of Bridgwater in Somerset.
- In 1650 he won a second small (though inconsequential) victory over an English Parliamentarian force during the battle of Tecroghan with some aid from Ulick Burke.
- The Parliamentarian force lost twenty men.
- In the afternoon Parliamentarian forces drove off 50 cattle grazing in fields outside the East Gate.
- The Parliamentarian force was led by an experienced Scottish professional soldier, Sir John Meldrum.
- In that year he edited the Souldier's Pocket Bible, a popular Biblical anthology designed for the Parliamentarian military forces.
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