Sentence examples for brigade of troops from inspiring English sources

Poland would also command a division and has offered to contribute a brigade of troops.

On July 3 Wallace sent a brigade of troops to Monocacy Junction in Maryland, some 4 miles (6 km) south of Frederick.

Waiting for the rebels Not so nice ReprintsThe town is base for a brigade of troops led by the army chief, General Mahele Lieko Bokungo, which has been newly reinforced with supposedly crack units and some 200 European mercenaries.

Military officials from the peacekeeping force in Darfur said in recent days that the Sudanese military had added nearly a brigade of troops to West Darfur, along with two dozen tanks and armored vehicles and many heavy weapons.

Just last week, the Pentagon even announced it was removing a brigade of troops that had been securing South Korea's border with the North, and sending it to provide additional forces for the Iraqi occupation.

If they have not disarmed within 48 hours, the warning said, they will face the use of force by a new brigade of troops given responsibility for ending the violence in the region — a step beyond protecting civilians under imminent threat of attack, the traditional job of international peacekeepers.

Gen. John P. Abiziad, the top American officer in the Middle East, said earlier this week that he needed an additional two brigades of troops to keep the number of American troops in Iraq at about 130,000.

This led to him being offered command of 6th Brigade, a regular infantry brigade of British troops, in 1910; he was the first colonial officer to hold such a position.

The United Nations, which had a significant number of peacekeeping troops in the city, soon authorized a new intervention brigade of 3,000 troops, with an aggressive new mandate.

They include the Russian military's 42nd motorized division, a brigade of Interior Ministry troops and a unit of border guards.

A day earlier, the treaty's prospects had suffered a blow with the supposed revelation of a brigade of Soviet troops in Cuba.