Sentence examples for achieved a bridgehead from inspiring English sources

To its north the panzergrenadiers of 3rd SS Panzergrenadier Division Totenkopf achieved a bridgehead across the Psel and tanks had been brought across, but they had yet to take Hill 226.6 and there was a 5 km gap between Totenkopf and Leibstandarte.

As a result of the withdrawal, Canadian efforts would focus on achieving a bridgehead at San Leonardo.

Achieving a spiritual experience.

Having achieved these objectives, the division was then to create and secure a bridgehead focused around the captured bridges until they linked up with advancing Allied ground forces.

Beginning on 4 December, four infantry divisions one British, one Canadian, one Indian and one New Zealand (which included an armoured brigade)—and two armoured brigades (one British and one Canadian) of the British V and XIII Corps attacked heavily defended German positions along the Moro River, achieving several exploitable bridgeheads by 8 December.

Schools – and particularly female education – are seen as a bridgehead of "corrupting modernity".

It gave Miliband a bridgehead into his wider argument about who will prosper from the recovery.

The osteospermums used Tresco as a bridgehead before launching their invasion of the gardens of Britain.

They have a bridgehead in London and the South East of England.

Soon the Iberian Peninsula, up in arms, became a bridgehead on the Continent for the British.

But he is also now the leader of a party with MEPs in Brussels and a bridgehead in parliament.