seat of war
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June 22d it embarks at Fort Snelling for the seat of war.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
Meanwhile at the seat of war, events were developing.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
But the most momentous move of the closing year was the departure of Lord Roberts for the seat of war.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Louis Creswicke
The seat of war was then gradually transferred to Flanders, and the task of conducting it fell upon the foreign allies.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bayard Taylor
England, indeed, was itself never the seat of war, and its commerce was increased by the war in some directions as much as it was diminished by it in others.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
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