field army

How to use field army in a sentence

• As a military enterprise, a rapid construction for the support of a field army, it is but a childish chimera.

  The Gates of India | Thomas Holdich

• Members of this committee are placed on duty with large organizations (for instance, a division, a field army, etc.).

  The Plattsburg Manual | O.O. Ellis and E.B. Garey

• The Belgian field army consisted of six divisions and a brigade of cavalry and numbered, on paper at least, about 180,000 men.

  Fighting in Flanders | E. Alexander Powell

• In brief, the scheme was the formation of a composite field army, backed by a second line of partially trained Auxiliaries.

  The Great War in England in 1897 | William Le Queux

• Independently of the field army, the Volunteers had mobilised, and were occupying the lines north and south of the metropolis.

  The Great War in England in 1897 | William Le Queux