Sentence examples for defensive outpost from inspiring English sources
Though now insignificant, the town was once an important defensive outpost belonging to the counts of Celano, who, as they did elsewhere in central Italy, built a fortress here; as far as I've been able to find out, the fortress has utterly vanished.
The Comanche often traversed the banks from the United States to raid Mexican settlements, and when the Mexican Revolution crossed the border in the early 20th century, U.S. Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing set up a defensive outpost to keep Pancho Villa on the other side of the river.
It was an important trading port and defensive outpost of Winchester, at the site of modern Bitterne Manor.
Its high position and the arrowslits on the north wall made the church suitable as a defensive outpost.
It was an important trading port and a defensive outpost for the town of Winchester, located on the site of Bitterne Manor, today a suburb of modern Southampton.
But one after the other these defensive outposts were taken, and on 16 August the last troops withdrew.
The commander oversees the building of defensive outposts and research sites that are used to create new weapon types.
The regular troops were distributed among the defensive outposts and supplemented with militia and Native American forces.
The war had begun two months earlier, and Fick had ordered them to fan out in pairs and man defensive positions around the outpost.
The buildup continues even while Pentagon officials talk of lightning raids and precision strikes against targets in Afghanistan, because no matter how brief and limited, such operations require a vast and expensive network of bases, command posts, flight decks, refueling outposts and defensive weapons, with all the accompanying logistics.
By early morning the Chinese had seized parts of the forward American trench-line and moved to isolate the position with indirect fire and patrols which penetrated between the outpost and the main defensive position to the rear; however, with the Marines still controlling the rear trenches they successfully reorganised their defence and succeeded in checking the Chinese assault.
