For this reason the best troops were posted on the far right to act as anchor-men.
The next day a group of children in neatly pressed Sunday best trooped into the Fatou Rose for a birthday party – despite public gatherings having been banned.
Ludendorff accordingly drew the best troops from all the Western Front forces at his disposal and formed them into elite shock divisions.
Polk then ordered Taylor to confine his actions to those necessary for defensive purposes and transferred Taylor's best troops to the army of General Winfield Scott.
Colonel Awad Suleiman, of the armoured corps, said: "Gaddafi's best troops are there and they have been very ruthless in dealing with the protests.
No one is pointing fingers any more".The Sierra Leoneans are sending some of their best troops to help out in Darfur.
But he went on to conduct a low-level insurgency effective enough to stall Napoleon's best troops until his capture, by trickery, in 1802.
This approach has the advantage from the government point of view of avoiding house-to-house fighting in which their best troops would suffer heavy attrition.
Moreover, the garrison of the city consisted of some of the best troops in the Iraqi army and they were supported by US air strikes.
The task of beating back Iraq's best troops and capturing Baghdad while keeping the rest of the country under control looks increasingly formidable.
