Sentence examples for body of troops from inspiring English sources

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The main body of troops stormed Dargai, overran all of Tirah, and retook the Khyber posts without opposition.

Company, in military service, the smallest body of troops that functions as a complete administrative and tactical unit.

Late in June 1783, things took a serious turn, when a body of troops stationed in Philadelphia sent a threatening letter to Congress.

That major-general was to have control over elections and electoral boards, and a sufficient body of troops, it said, to enforce the electoral process in the South.

Regiment, in most armies, a body of troops headed by a colonel and organized for tactical control into companies, battalions, or squadrons.

Egypt was then garrisoned at three major points: Daphnae in the east delta, Memphis, and Elephantine, where Jewish mercenaries formed the main body of troops.

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Wars, however well financed, are won by disciplined bodies of troops, not rabbles.

Large-scale maneuvers involving considerable bodies of troops are planned in Italy for the month of August.

The Polish defense was already reduced to random efforts by isolated bodies of troops when another blow fell: on September 17, 1939, Soviet forces entered Poland from the east.

Three bodies of troops were formed, all trained and armed in the European manner and paid out of the royal treasury: the ghulāms (slaves), the tofangchīs (musketeers), and the topchīs (artillerymen).

Permanent bodies of troops were stationed at strategic points throughout the empire, and, to judge from the garrison at Elephantine in Egypt, these were actually military colonies, firmly settled into the local countryside.

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