Sentence examples for a landing force from inspiring English sources
She shelled Confederate soldiers along the river banks and bombarded City Point to cover a landing force which set fire to the depots.
The ships bombarded rebel positions and sent a landing force, which included men from the ships along with colonial police troops, ashore in mid-January mid-January 1911
The German governor considered ordering Seeadler to contribute a landing force to protect the German consul in Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, but the defeat of the Jameson Raid rendered the plan redundant.
He commanded a landing force that went ashore at Puerto Cortes, Honduras in 1911, and participated in the United States occupation of Veracruz as adjutant of the First Regiment of Bluejackets in 1914.
At 06:00 on the 14th, Cormoran steamed into the bay to bring the Chinese forts under fire, while Kaiser and Prinzess Wilhelm sent a landing force of some 700 men ashore.
But Iraq has no air force to speak of, and the number of men and tanks exaggerates the potency of a land force that is short of spare parts for equipment that was already obsolete when Mr Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990.When the American-led ground forces went into action then to force the Iraqis out, Mr Hussein's soldiers, dazed and hungry after weeks of bombing, showed precious little fight.
The White Paper, produced by the Holyrood administration, says it would have an annual defence budget of £2.5bn and at the point of independence it would have a land force of 3,500 troops and 1,200 reservists.
None of the helicopters or fixed-wing transports shown above can move heavier combat forces, or vehicles — including tanks, and artillery — that are critical in giving a landed force the ability to hold on.
The distance to the coast was long enough to prevent a surprise attack by a naval landing force.
The Imperial Japanese Navy IJNN) also rejected Imamura's suggestion that a special naval landing force unit be dispatched to the islands.
The expedition had failed to achieve any of its objectives and had left a quarter of the landing force dead or wounded.
