Sentence examples for division captured from inspiring English sources

In August 1942, as part of Operation Edelweiss aimed at taking Baku's oil fields, a Nazi mountain division captured Elbrus and planted a Nazi flag on the summit.

On the same day as Rastatt, Taponier's division captured Gernsbach.

During the October November Carolina Maneuvers, Patton's division captured Hugh Drum, commander of the opposing army.

Delayed by mines and roadblocks, the division captured the Kapela and Vratnik passes with minimal casualties.

During Case White, the division captured Bihać and Bosanski Petrovac, killed over 2,000 Partisans and captured nearly 400.

However, all organized resistance in southern Luzon ended on 1 May, when the division captured Mount Malepunyo near the city of Lipa.

They quickly enjoyed success, winning the local state championship within five years of their founding, but remained a regional concern until recently, when their ascent through the divisions captured the imagination of Brazilians.

Second, there is a real chance that these protests, and the political movements that they might spawn, will transcend the deep-rooted but stale political divisions of the last two decades, divisions captured pithily by Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he said in 1998: "In this country there is a segregation of Black Turks and White Turks.

Then a joint attack by the 60th (London) and 74th (Yeomanry) Divisions captured all their objectives.

The cavalry divisions captured Nazareth, Haifa, Afulah, Beisan, and Jenin before and Samakh and the Capture of Tiberias ended the Battle of Megiddo.

However, the operation was a success, with both divisions capturing Rhine bridges and securing towns that could have been used by Germany to delay the advance of the British ground forces.