strategetic

The little territory, chiefly consisting of a mountain covered with palm-forests, was then almost uninhabited, but the strategetic importance of the position resulted in the establishment of an English

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

There were, she saw, three strategetic factors which dominated the situation -- the Enyong Creek giving admission to the new territory, Itu at its mouth, and Arochuku, the religious and political centre of the Ibos.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

Then, too, it clarifies the field and reveals the strategetic points, or, to change the figure, it pulls off the mask and exposes the real man.

More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher

On the contrary, it was apparent that Northern statesmen, confident in the exercise of intellectual resources, relied on the intelligence and reason of their auditors and constituents, and seldom resorted to that species of oratory which was employed by their adversaries, and which may be called in a manner strategetic, when logical accuracy was likely to meet with more satisfactory and more permanent success.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

This hill has been of great military importance in a strategetic point of view, commanding, as it does, the town, river, and valley.

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

It means a place of prominence, a position of strength, a strategetic point, as the entrance into a city.

The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Joseph Wild

Faced by an overwhelmingly superior force, our badly depleted three divisions had barely escaped being bagged in the net of which the enemy had all but drawn the noose in a strategetic surrounding movement.

The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland George Pearson

Many of us are disposed not to attach very great importance to the supposed strategetic dangers that might await on future wars if Southern Ireland were turned out of the Empire, where she evidently is not at home, to be a little nation not capable of much mischief or much good.

Difficulties and Opportunities of the British Empire 1921

"The majestic splendour of this gulf, its strategetic importance, have at all times attracted the attention of warriors."

Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3 Gordon Home 1923

"The majestic splendour of this gulf, its strategetic importance, have at all times attracted the attention of warriors."

Normandy, Illustrated, Complete Gordon Home 1923