Sentence examples for battalions for from inspiring English sources

After World War I, chasseurs were formed as independent battalions for administrative purposes but were grouped into demibrigades of three battalions for war.

We are creating more battalions for the Afghan Army as fast as possible.

Proponents said the aid, including helicopters, would be used to train and equip three army battalions for counter-drug operations.

He was reared in a converted stable by his carpenter father, who spent five years in Stalin's penal battalions for being late for work.

If anything, having more guns to dole out in this manner may just increase the already intense competition between various battalions for a patron's money or supplies.

Upon the invasion of Poland in September of that year, Himmler ordered the creation of police battalions for security operations in the occupied territories.

Fighting in Europe, the 442nd became known as "the Purple Heart battalion" for the casualties it suffered.

And we were there to form a battalion for the Ulster Defense Association.

It deployed a Czech-based battalion for fear of a chemical attack.

On 16 September Isis killed seven women from its al-Khansa Battalion for "disobeying orders".

But it gave no details of the company's project to build a foreign mercenary battalion for the Emirati government.