Sentence examples for defending forces from inspiring English sources

Information about the landing beaches, the defences possessed by the port, and the Vichy French defending forces was limited and vague, although it was believed that the defenders had no weapons capable of penetrating the armour of a Valentine tank.

The defending forces consisted of elements of the German 709th, 243rd, and 91st infantry divisions.

The defending forces consisted of three battalions of the veteran 352nd Infantry Division.

This confusion is all the greater when the defending forces exploit the civilian population.

When a rebel army entered Beijing in 1644, the city's defending forces asked the Manchus for help.

As Russia's army discovered in Grozny's rubble-strewn streets, collapsed buildings provide effective cover for defending forces.

The announcement suggested the militants have now lost as much as half their defending force.

Defensive towers served as platforms from which a defending force could rain missiles down upon an attacking force.

Price's points were sound; military doctrine of the day called for an attacking army to outnumber an entrenched defending force by at least three to one.

It took the Roman army of almost 15,000, fighting a defending force of less than 1,000, including women and children, almost two years to subdue the fortress.

Stonewall Jackson's small Confederate army captured not only the town and all its supplies but also the 10,000-man defending force.