What is "rallied"

Usage examples of "rallied".

Hitler suggested that perhaps the situation could be retrieved if he and the General withdrew to the countryside near Rosenheim and rallied the peasants behind the armed bands for an assault on Munich, but Ludendorff promptly rejected the idea.

They stirred and rallied a divided, defeated people and their resounding echoes could still be heard in the Third Reich.

And paradoxically, though it was a moment of national shame for the Norwegian people, the treason of Quisling rallied the stunned Norwegians to a resistance which was to become formidable and heroic.

New Deal was shared, in part at least, by the American isolationists and a considerable portion of the business community and he sought to make the most of it, ignorant of the fact that on Pearl Harbor Day these groups, like all others in America, had rallied to the support of their country.

The full diabolical meanness of Jewry rallied around this man, and he stretched out his hands.

But he himself had done nothing to help at a time when his authority as a field marshal might have rallied more of the troop commanders in Berlin and abroad.

Moscow, rallied the beaten, retreating armies and put new heart into the battered nation.

Northern wage earners who rallied to the Union cause became allied with their employers.

Then Bili forced a halt and rallied his force before commencing the slow, weary march back to the battlefield below the cliff.

German influence had retired beyond the Alps, and the popes had again made Rome the centre of the Christian world, all the small princes, robbed of their original protector, had rallied round the papal see, and received at the hands of the pope a new investiture, and now they paid annual dues, for which they received the particular title of duke, count, or lord, and the general name of Vicar of the Church.

Although he claimed to have had initial signs of interest from about four hundred delegates, in the last two days of the convention the Quebec contingent - fearing a Diefenbaker victory-swung decisively behind Donald Fleming, while many potential Fulton backers, with overpowering antiFleming feelings, rallied behind Diefenbaker.

Hamilton who rallied the backbenchers and successfully beat down the insurrection.

Slung across the saddle, limp and bleeding, I scarce heeded the commotion as the gatehouse guards rallied against the Skaldi who threw themselves in waves at the moat, driving them back coolly with a rain of crossbow-fire.

Yount got to the tober in plenty of time to don his leopard skin for the night show, but he looked so bereft that his fellow troupers rallied to cheer him up.

Not only their Garde Nationale and their recruits from the regular army ranks, but also civilians of every age rallied to the defense of Paris.