Sentence examples for complete encirclement from inspiring English sources

The battle ended in a Turkish victory, the collapse of Serbia, and the complete encirclement of the crumbling Byzantine Empire by Turkish armies.

The complete encirclement of Madrid appeared dangerously near when General Mola's columns pushed down the Tagus and Tajuna Valleys clearly attempting to establish contact with General Franco's southern army at Arganda to complete the Fascists' circle around the capital.

Distinguished by several unique features, including a cover of perennial ice and almost complete encirclement by the landmasses of North America, Eurasia, and Greenland, the north polar region has been a subject of speculation since the earliest concepts of a spherical Earth.

Tracheal compression may occasionally occur without complete encirclement, such as with brachiocephalic artery compression, pulmonary sling, the aorta wrapping around the trachea or orientation of the arch with compression of the main bronchus and right pulmonary artery.

In short time it became clear that even 50,000 Union soldiers would not be able to effect a complete encirclement of the Confederate defenses.

The reassignment of the 7th Division gave Đính and his III Corps complete encirclement of Saigon, and would prevent Cao from storming the capital to save Diệm as he had done during the coup attempt in 1960.

"The units that have arrived in support of our troops in Debaltsevo are counter-attacking and denying the enemy the opportunity to complete the encirclement," he said.

"Some Chinese scholars worry that the U. S. will complete its encirclement of China this way," said Xu Qinhua, who studies Russia and Central Asia at the Renmin University of China and advises government officials on regional issues.

For the approach to the Philippines, it was prerequisite, on the one hand, to complete the encirclement of Rabaul, thereby nullifying the threat from the Japanese positions in the Solomon Islands and in the Bismarck Archipelago (New Britain, New Ireland, etc).

While Mac-Mahon tried to consider whether to try again to smash through eastward toward Metz or instead to retreat west to Paris, Moltke moved up the 3rd Prussian Army, under Crown Prince Frederick William, to complete the encirclement of Sedan.

At Minsk they converged with Hoth's tanks, which had pierced the opposite flank, but Bock's infantry could not follow up quickly enough to complete the encirclement of the Soviet troops in the area; though 300,000 prisoners were taken in the salient, a large part of the Soviet forces was able to escape to the east.