Sentence examples for advance forces from inspiring English sources

Fraser's advance forces occupied Mount Hope on 3 July.

Morgan's main body with the artillery was still en route, and he decided that the Legion should be engaged by the advance forces.

Prior to the battle Washington gave command of the advance forces to Charles Lee, who had been exchanged earlier in the year.

During this time, North Korean leadership also ordered the creation of large conventional units to act as advance forces for the actual invasion.

Unaware of all this, Gelimer marched up with the main army and scattered the Roman advance forces present at Ad Decimum.

Although his advance forces came within three miles of Ticonderoga, the lateness of the season and the difficulty of maintaining supply lines along the lake in winter caused him to withdraw his forces back into Quebec.

But mostly the Iranians wanted Hezbollah as an advance force to confront Israel.

Early the next year an advance force of the Macedonian army crossed to Asia Minor.

The commander of the French advance force was not available for a comment.

In Iraq, the advance force, called the House of Islam, is dominated by foreigners, including several hundred Europeans, Australians, and Americans.

The city was blockaded by Union land and sea forces from July 10 , 1863 to February 18 , 1865 the siege ending only when General William Tecumseh Sherman's advance forced the city's evacuation.