Crossword-Solution: ISLY
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ISLY | anagram | SYLI |
We have 1 clue for the answer “ISLY”
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| Site of Moorish defeat, 1884 | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ISLY (5)
Then we have the Troops of Assault receiving the Signal to leave the Trenches, and "The Scaling of the Breach." There are the "Occupation of the Defile of Teniah," "Combat of the Habrah, of the Sickak, of Samah, of Afzoum." In fine, there is the largest canvass in existence, it is said, the "Taking of the Smalah," that renowned occasion when the army was so _very near_ taking Abd-el-Kader; and the "Battle of Isly," which gained that splendid trophy, the parasol of command.
The king refused to let the Maréchal Duc d'Isly restore order (as there is no doubt he could easily and quickly have done), on the ground that he had received the Crown from the National Guard in Paris, and that he would not allow it to be defended by the line against them.
ISLY, the name of a small river on the Moroccan-Algerian frontier, a sub-tributary of the Tafna, famous as the scene of the greatest victory of the French army in the Algerian wars.
For this great victory, which was quickly followed by proposals of peace, Bugeaud was made duc d'Isly.
Yet we know it must be so, because people from Isly, from Rosales, from Dreslin, have been passing through from the north.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1970).