Sentence examples for advancing force from inspiring English sources

The opposition's advance could not be verified, nor was the size of the advancing force known.

The rioting started just before 8 o'clock, when police met an advancing force of Communists in the Place de la Mairie and barred the way to the cinema.

In Mali, French paratroopers arrived this month to battle an advancing force of jihadi fighters who already control an area twice the size of Germany.

Earlier, near the Shias' holy city of Najaf, American and Iraqi troops fought an advancing force of a breakaway Shia sect, killing at least 260 of them.

Sherburne, not realizing that Butterfield had already surrendered, marched his troops right at Lorimier's advancing force.

At 17:00, the advancing force was counter-attacked by the 12th SS, under the command of Kurt Meyer.

One of the survivors was Adam Helmer, who ran 26 mile ahead of the advancing force to warn German Flatts.

Upon learning the size of the advancing force, he ordered three of the fort's guns fired, and withdrew all but a few men back to Nassau.

In spite of these wounds, he refused to withdraw from his post, continuing to attack the Chinese troops with accurate fire which caused significant casualties among their advancing force.

During the night of 3/4 August 1916, the advancing force including the German Pasha I formation and the Ottoman 3rd Infantry Division launched an attack from Katia on Romani.

A billowing white smoke grenade offers advancing forces cover as they go room to room, exchanging gunfire with mock militants.