Such a change of base was effected by Marshal French during the Retreat from Mons , and amongst many historical examples may be quoted General McClellan's transfer of the Army of the Potomac from the York to the James River in July, 1862, during the Seven Days' Battle around Richmond .
— from Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 by Anonymous

The Congregation of Bishops was established by Gregory XIII.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

In particular, it has always seemed to me that the curved, especially the doubly curved, streamers of the [109] corona can only be well explained by regarding the corona as in the main an auroral phenomenon.
— from Flowers of the Sky by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

The congregation demanded a fuller control of its own affairs, Handschuh and his elders sternly resisted the demand, and were convinced that the world would fall if the whole congregation were allowed to usurp the control which could only be wisely exercised by a few selectmen.
— from The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America by B. M. (Beale Melanchthon) Schmucker

What four classes of buildings were erected by Solomon?
— from Studies in Old Testament History by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

The consummation of both was effected by this constitution.
— from Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States With the Eulogy Delivered Before the Legislature of New York by William Henry Seward

It is easy to write unmeaning anathemas against prodigal expenditures, and extorting the hard earnings of the poor, on such occasions, but I do not know that the castle of Biberich was erected by any means so foul.
— from A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper

The colours on both were exquisite, but they grew a trifle less brilliant as the moths became dry.
— from Moths of the Limberlost: A Book About Limberlost Cabin by Gene Stratton-Porter

The consummation of both was effected by this Constitution.
— from U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses by United States. Presidents

Monsieur Chateaufleur, of the gens d'armes Ecossois , as a crowning outrage, carried off by force to the château a young milliner or grisette of the Rue de Paradis; and the citizens of Besançon were enraged beyond what I can describe at the insolencies of these young aristocrats, who were at once struck with terror and dismay when news arrived of the revolution which had broken out in Paris, and of the bloody tumults which had ensued there.
— from The Romance of War; or, The Highlanders in Spain, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant