Sentence example with the word 'salients'

salients

Last update: September 20, 2015


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It is probable that the usual three "battles" were drawn up in line, each with its archers on the flanks and the dismounted men-at-arms in the centre; the archers being thrown forward in wedge-shaped salients, almost exactly as at Crecy.   [Please select]

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The battles of Festubert, Neuve Chapelle, Loos, and all minor attacks which led to little salients, were but experimental adventures in the science of slaughter, badly bungled in our laboratories.   [Please select]

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What you know of other salients is hearsay.   [Please select]

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