Sentence examples for bridgehead on from inspiring English sources

Soon the Iberian Peninsula, up in arms, became a bridgehead on the Continent for the British.

Meanwhile, other units have pushed north along the river after establishing their first bridgehead on 8 January.

Government troops established a bridgehead on the sprawling campus early on Friday after being ferried in by helicopter.

Fortunately, Cetti's warbler had by then managed to establish a bridgehead on this side of the Channel, so clung on as a British breeding bird.

Adana's prosperity has long come from the fertile valleys behind it and from its position as a bridgehead on the Anatolian-Arabian trade routes.

This delayed the German advance to Normandy by a fortnight, which enabled the Allies to secure the Normandy bridgehead on D-Day.

By the end of the first week of October 1943, the Red Army had established several bridgeheads on the right bank of the Dnieper River.

Operation Badr called for an enlargement of the bridgeheads on October 8.

CentCom said on February 9 that peshmerga forces backed by US airpower had seized three IS bridgeheads on Tigris River's western bank, north of the city.

On October 6, 1973 Egypt launched Operation Badr intending to cross the Suez Canal and establish bridgeheads on the opposite bank of the Sinai Peninsula, occupied by Israel since 1967.

Only 42 bunkers protected the Sedan bridgeheads on the outbreak of war in September 1939 and an additional 61 were built by 10 May.