Sentence examples for battalion in which from inspiring English sources

Delimkhanov continues to sit as a Russian MP, and the Sever battalion, in which the Nemtsov murder suspect Zaur Dadayev served, is controlled by his brother.

Remarkably, one of those brothers, while serving in the Ugandan Army, rescued the younger sibling from the Lord's Resistance Army; the older brother's unit had captured the rebel battalion in which his younger brother had been forced to fight.

"There was a high contingent of Tasmanians who were a part of Pozieres because it was a focus of the 12th Battalion, in which Tasmanians were actively involved," Dick said.

He and many of his comrades were decorated for the regiment's most celebrated operation, known as "the rescue of the Lost Battalion," in which they saved 211 fellow soldiers trapped in southern France while suffering more than 800 casualties.

Brent Fitch of the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion, described an incident of sexually tinged abuse against an Iraqi woman by three enlisted members of the battalion, in which the woman was kissed and threatened with being left alone with a naked male prisoner.

The deaths of three soldiers in Afghanistan are a "hammer-blow", a spokesman for the battalion in which the men served has said.

And so, beginning in December 1951, a series of revolts broke out "inside the wire," culminating in pitched battles between armed prisoners and entire guard battalions in which hundreds of POWs and a small number of UNC troops lost their lives.

This is the only occurrence noted in the battalion history in which the battalion engaged enemy armor.

After stepping down from the Admiralty in October 1915, due to his administration of the disastrous interventions around the Dardanelles, he took command of a battalion in France, which was militarily undeserved, brief, and quiet.

"Barrancabermeja is the heart of Colombia; here we pump out all the energy we need," said Lt. Col. Hernan Moreno, commander of the New Granada Battalion in Barrancabermeja, which is sending specially trained urban commandos into the neighborhoods to restore order.

Peña Nieto also promoted to the post of Army Inspector General, General Alejandro Saavedra Hernández, the commander of the region in charge of the Army's 27th Battalion in Iguala, which had command control of police and other government forces the night of the attack on the students, Proceso reported on December 1.