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Definition of Armies
1. army [n] - See also: army
Lexicographical Neighbors of Armies
Literary usage of Armies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1875)
"CAUSES WHICH BENDER DEMOCRATIC armies WEAKER THAN OTHER armies AT THE OUTSET OF
A CAMPAIGN, AND MORE FORMIDABLE IN PROTRACTED WARFARE. ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Thus there was preserved to these armies in Germany that unity of control which
had given them so inestimable an advantage over their adversaries, ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"At that time these numbers were regarded as extraordinary, but the size of armies
has constantly increased since then. Louis XIII. had five armies on foot ..."
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