Sentence examples for French columns from inspiring English sources

Rather than use the usual nine-deep French columns deployed abreast of one another, therefore, each division advanced in closely spaced battalion lines behind one another.

The northbound Austrian columns in the Kelheim-Abbach zone ran into the four French columns heading west towards Neustadt in the early hours of the 19th.

David Brooks concludes ("Gangsta, in French," column, Nov. 10) that in the United States, gangsta rap, with its menacing lyrics about crime, racism and misogyny, is like a game that can be discarded by most students as they head off to college.

While the French column heads to Place du Châtelet, the American one is to get to the Place de la Bastille around 7 p.m., where a stage flanked by two Sherman tanks will be the site of a 45-minute musical theater performance directed by the playwright Jérôme Savary.

A French column took redoubt #9 and an American column redoubt #10.

The first French column Wheatley engaged broke after a single British volley.

A French column would distract Kray from Moreau's true intentions by crossing the Rhine from the west.

Latour-Maubourg was therefore able to take position near Almendralejo and await the arrival of the second French column.

Instead of withdrawing, as a rear guard would, more and more Russian troops appeared and engaged the French column.

He led two infantry battalions in the Austrian victory at Neerwinden (18 March 1793), during which his battalions repulsed a strong French column.

When confronted by Marshal Mortier, Ballesteros retreated without suffering serious harm but remained a threat to the rear of the French column.