Meanings of repel invasion in English

To repel invasion is to oppose it by force, to drive off the invaders.

Summary: Troops advancing on all fronts to repel invasion.

But the militia might be sent to repel invasion.

With this slender force, supplemented by State levies, the military authorities were asked to repel invasion.

Were we so totally unfitted to repel invasion?

Alfred's first care was to organize a fighting force always ready at his call to repel invasion.

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Confederacy, suppress insurrections, and repel invasion.

The answer given is, that, when militia are called upon to repel invasion, the State shall appoint the officers.

They strove vigorously to repel invasion, to improve agriculture, and to encourage commerce, for the sake of France, but not for Canada.

The instructions arrive when the French army is encamped at Boulogne, and when the whole island is up in arms to repel invasion.

And now preparations for war, and, indeed, for repelling invasion, began in earnest.

In case of hostilities with foreign nations, they will be the means of inviting attack instead of repelling invasion.

The War of 1812 left Canada crippled financially but stronger in national spirit because she had tested her strength and repelled invasion.

The body has, in short, its own forces for repelling invasions, and upon these forces must we depend for the power to produce recovery.

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

This small and dark apartment was the only portion of the house to which, since one firmly repelled invasion, Mrs. Melmoth's omnipotence did not extend.