Spanish river, into the Mediterranean

Usage examples of ebro.

With this composite force he marched to the Ebro and took over the army there from Ti.

He praised them warmly for having maintained their hold on the province after sustaining two such terrible blows, and also for keeping the enemy to the south of the Ebro, thereby depriving them of any advantages from their victories, and also affording protection to their own friends.

The Carthaginian armies withdrew into their respective winter-quarters: Hasdrubal, the son of Gisgo, to Gades on the coast, Mago into the interior above the forest of Castulo, Hasdrubal, the son of Hamilcar, near the Ebro in the neighbourhood of Saguntum.

He then launched his ships and led the fleet and transports to the mouth of the Ebro, where he had also ordered the legions to concentrate from their winter quarters.

We must not remain stationary here, defending the bank of the Ebro against the enemy's passage of the river.

Come on then, my veterans, and lead a new army and a new commander across the Ebro into the lands which you have so often traversed and where you have given so many proofs of your prowess and your courage.

Silanus in charge of the country north of the Ebro with 3000 infantry and 300 cavalry.

Seven days after leaving the Ebro, the land and sea forces reached New Carthage simultaneously.

Almost all the tribes south of the Ebro obeyed the summons, as did many also from the northern province.

Ten days after leaving New Carthage he reached the Ebro, and within four days of his passage of the river he came within view of the enemy.

We are at the same time to convey their congratulations to you on having been so successful these last years in Spain and Italy that you have subjugated the one country by the might of your arms, not only as far as the Ebro, but even to its most distant shores which the ocean bounds, whilst in the other you have left the Carthaginian nothing outside the rampart of his camp.

Round the Ebro lay the armies of your father and your uncle, whose courage had been raised by defeat and who were burning to avenge the loss of their commanders.

Having come to this resolution, they gave orders to collect all the ships in the river Ebro, and to bring them to Octogesa, a town situated on the river Ebro, about twenty miles distant from their camp.

However, almost at the same instant, news was received of the bridge being nearly completed over the Ebro, and a ford was found in the Segre.

They retired behind these mountains that they might avoid Caesar's cavalry, and, placing parties in the narrow roads, stop the progress of his army and lead their own forces across the Ebro without danger or apprehension.