Meanings of foreign soldiery in English

He declined engaging himself not to recal his foreign soldiery, should necessity require their service.

The fairest of the cities of the plain had long been a nest of foreign soldiery.

The natural resentment of the Chinese in such circumstances was intensified by the conduct of the foreign soldiery.

This, then, was the end of the famous provision against foreign soldiery in the Walloon treaty of reconciliation.

It was to strengthen, not to forsake the Ghent Pacification, already nearly annihilated by the force of foreign soldiery.

The fury of Secession irreverently destroyed this memorial of antiquity and religion, which even a foreign soldiery had spared.

Against the arbitrary policy embodied in the edicts, the new bishoprics and the foreign soldiery, the Netherlanders appealed to their ancient constitutions.

A city thus occupied was at the mercy of a foreign soldiery, which had renounced all authority but that of self-imposed laws.

The contemporary chronicles are full of harrowing domestic tragedies, in which the actors are always the insolent foreign soldiery and their desperate victims.

The contracting parties bound themselves together to spend all their treasure and all their blood in expelling the foreign soldiery from their soil.

He was to demand the substitution of clemency in for severity, and to insist on the recall of the foreign soldiery from the Netherlands.