Sentence examples for defend the bridge from inspiring English sources
Miller decides to take command and defend the bridge with what little manpower and resources are available.
9th SS Panzer took on the British at Arnhem, while the 10th moved south to defend the bridge at Nijmegen.
With no command structure, they were attached to the 1st Parachute Battalion to help defend the bridge.
Failure to capture the bridges would leave the 6th Airborne Division cut off in enemy territory, so the 5th Parachute Brigade were earmarked to defend the bridges against counter-attacks.
The groups assigned to assault the three bridges would overwhelm the defending Belgian troops, remove any demolition charges and then prepare to defend the bridges against an expected counter-attack.
Engineer officers under the command of then-Colonel John G. Barnard accompanied the army and began building fortifications and entrenchments along the banks of the Potomac River in order to defend the bridges that crossed it.
When Piedmont representatives asked the plant manager what he considered to be prying questions, he reacted rather strongly—"like Horatio defending the bridge," as he later described it.
19 This is the famous Horatius who defended the bridge single-handed against the army of Porsenna.
By 14 45 there were only fifteen British troops defending the bridge that had not been killed or wounded.
The regiment now settled in, defending the bridge while the Canterbury Mounted Rifles squadron crossed and started clearing the far bank.
