Meanings of compelled the enemy in English

Our artillery answered and compelled the enemy to be silent.

He wanted to compel the obedience of matter, as he compelled the enemy to surrender.

He compelled the enemy to loose their hold on those provinces and concentrate to save the capital.

On 2nd October the Allies compelled the enemy to retreat from Bergen; but the success was of little service.

This compelled the enemy to deploy over a vast extent of wooded and broken country, and made his progress slow.

Walley, however, drew up his reserve in some brushwood a little in the rear, and finally compelled the enemy to retreat.

They were fighting at dawn, and in the half light compelled the enemy to retire to within half a mile of Beitunia.

He had evidently been dragged along the sand, but the tremendous fire of the defenders had compelled the enemy to drop him.

I was with that part of the army, in March, 1776, which took possession of Dorchester heights-themovement which compelled the enemy to evacuate Boston.

Our dispositions compelled the enemy to distribute his forces, and when the attack was launched the Turk lacked sufficient men to man his defences adequately.

This officer, however, being re-enforced by some troops under General Drummond, returned, and compelled the enemy to take refuge under the cannon of Fort Erie.