Sentences with phrase «soldiers died trying»
Moreover, the French were in no mood to drink and be merry with the Germans, who were occupying a good chunk of French soil, not to mention that in the five months leading up to Christmas, 300,000 French soldiers died trying to keep even more of their country from falling into German hands.
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the WWII epic in which Shia LaBeouf's Boyd Swan holds the hands of dying German soldiers and tries to lead them in the sinners prayer, even when it was his own gun that fired the fatal bullet.
Until today, historians try to unravel why as many as 30,000 Roman soldiers, along with countless slaves and families, died in those three days of bloody butchery.
«Not including the Mickey Maguire shorts, Mr. Rooney made more than 200 movies, earning a total of four Academy Award nominations — he was nominated for best supporting actor as the fast - talking soldier who dies trying to protect $ 30,000 he won in a craps game in» The Bold and the Brave» (1956) and as the trainer of a wild Arabian horse in» The Black Stallion» (1979).