"raw" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- You know Mongolia better than we and are most competent to lead our raw levies.
- Only Ser Stafford Lannister and the raw green levies he's been gathering remain to oppose Robb in the west.
- In the battle of Newtownbutler on 31 July 1689, serving under MacCarthy, Hamilton was wounded in the leg at the beginning of the action, and his raw levies were routed with great slaughter.
- Dupont fell into the emperor's disgrace, as it was not taken into account that his troops were for the most part raw levies, and that ill-luck contributed materially to the catastrophe.
- He was then moved to Shensi as Viceroy, and in spite of his representation that all the tried soldiers were dead and the new recruits not yet serviceable, he was obliged to advance against Li who soon scattered his raw levies.
- For a moment he stood downslope from Craike, his hands on his hips, his head back, measuring the Esper with the shrewdness of a canny officer who had long known how to judge and handle raw levies.
- Two days later, Manson disregarded standing instructions not to engage the enemy with raw levies.
- Napoleon dismissed Joseph's misgivings out of hand; and, to back up the raw and ill-trained levies he had initially allocated to Spain-the Emperor sent heavy French reinforcements to assist Joseph in maintaining his position as King of Spain.
- He attacked them at Rieti in March, 1821 but his raw levies were repulsed.
- Yet he was on the whole successful, even though working with raw levies, and in 1680 had got to the border of Kueichou.
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