Sentence examples for break through the encirclement from inspiring English sources

Rommel slipped away again, and although a British flanking maneuver cut off his rearguard, that rearguard was able to break through the encirclement and escape.

These attempts to break through the encirclement did not succeed and the cost was heavy with both sides suffering high casualties.

What is clear is that several of the small groups that broke through the encirclement suffered significant losses.

In 1927 he broke through the encirclement of the Little Entente (a triangular coalition of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Romania against Hungary) to sign a treaty of friendship with Italy.

But he said they managed to break through the Ukrainian encirclement and withdraw with all of their tanks and vehicles.

That fatal decision doomed Paulus's forces, since Manstein's forces then simply lacked the reserves needed to break through the Soviet encirclement single-handedly.

This fatal decision doomed Paulus' forces, since the main German forces now simply lacked the reserves needed to break through the Soviet encirclement singlehandedly.

Some of these had broken through the rebel encirclement by falsely claiming to be anti-Diệm reinforcements, before setting up their positions next to the palace.

Leaving 21 wounded German soldiers and 126 American prisoners behind, Ohmsen and 78 men broke through the American encirclement and reached the German lines at Aumeville, roughly 8 km away.

"Bagok jumped out of the panzer to cover us [so] that we could break the encirclement and then he got martyred while trying to cover us and break the siege," it was claimed.

German attempts to break the encirclement, however, would only alarm the entente powers and cause them to draw the loose strings into a knot.