Sentence examples for battle order from inspiring English sources

The demonstrators, for instance, were "changing their battle order from day to day," write Wilson and Adams.

Drilled in modern battle order and technology, the peasant recruit was forcibly "modernized," and there are indications of some minimal influence of this on the population at large.

"War Stories" reminds us of the Chicago Tribune reporter who lifted a document from the desk of a naval officer showing the Japanese battle order at Midway, resulting in the headline: "Navy Had Word of Jap Plan to Strike at Sea".

The Norwegian forces were taken by surprise, and were not in battle order.

Vice-Admiral Lancelot Holland planned on targeting Bismarck first, but due to the reversed German battle order, and Hood opened fire on the Prinz Eugen instead.

Kardarigan, confident of victory, advanced against the Byzantines, but they had been warned and were deployed in battle order when Kardarigan reached Solachon.

Insurgencies tend to be improvised affairs, without battle orders or formal communiqués.

The "battle orders" for defeating an invasion of rabies from Europe have been set out by the Ministry of Agriculture.

"Whose name was on the battle orders?" he said in an interview in 1994 with The Daily Telegraph of London.

Soldiers in ancient Greece used polished shields to send battle orders to each other over vast distances in the form of flashes of sunlight.

Colossus was successful in its intended purpose: the German messages it helped to decode provided information about German battle orders, supplies, and personnel; it also confirmed that an Allied deception campaign, Operation Fortitude, was working.