Sentence examples for battalion across from inspiring English sources

The advance entailed moving the battalion across approximately 1300 m of open ground, while under the direct observation of German forces on high ground to the east of Proyart.

Meanwhile, although unknown to them at the time, the US 1/503rd Battalion across the Song Dong Nai had patrolled to within 2000 m of a major Viet Cong bunker system sited on two spur lines in the vicinity of Hill 65.

The left battalion, unaware that the 33rd Brigade (11th Division) to the north had been delayed, veered towards the north-east to try to make contact near Lumm Farm, which took the battalion across the Wambeke spur instead of straight down.

It consisted of marching several battalions across the countryside in dispersed columns.

The Free Syrian Army says it has 22 "battalions" across the country, with field leaders taking orders from a central command in Turkey.

Moreover, those additional NATO troops, expected to be drawn from U.S. and European armies, will face at least 22 full-strength Russian battalions across the border.

On August 7 8, the North Koreans tried to move two more battalions across the river to the north, but were repulsed by 21st Infantry, which was still in place.

At one stage he had been commanding 33 battalions across several miles of front line with no central co-ordination and great confusion between his distant headquarters and the trenches.

On 26 January, Soult marched for Badajoz, sending Latour-Maubourg with six cavalry battalions across the Guadiana to blockade the fortress's northern approach, and by 27 January, the first siege of Badajoz had begun.

A pontoon bridge was floated across the Santi Petri creek and a battalion sent across to establish a bridgehead prior to the arrival of the main force.

The men of the Third Battalion moved across the Diyala bridge "dismounted," that is, on foot.