What is "outnumbering"

Usage examples of "outnumbering".

He could go into action with men and guns outnumbering his enemy more than two to one, and Lee and Jackson would have no such hills and intrenchments as those which had protected them while they cut down the army of Burnside at Fredericksburg.

Seeing the Union army marching toward his rear, and knowing that if Grant took it he would be surrounded, both on land and water, by a force outnumbering his nearly three to one, he marched out at once and took station two miles in front of Port Gibson.

The South presented here an army outnumbering its force at Shiloh two to one, and they were veterans now, led by veteran commanders.

Within a few minutes you will be attacked by a force outnumbering you more than two to one.

But outnumbering these by far were men who, though carried on company rolls as deserters, had no intention of deserting perma­nently.

Whenever groups of men from the fighting were in town for the night, dinners were given for them and afterwards there was dancing and the girls, outnumbering the men ten to one, made much of them and fought to dance with them.

Before it stood the Army of the Potomac, outnumbering it two to one, and behind that army stood a great nation ready to pour forth more men by the hundreds of thousands and more money by the hundreds of millions to save the Union.