Sentence examples for division of troops from inspiring English sources

The army – believing that the film would prove "a vitamin pill for recruitment" – lent them a division of troops.

My father's unit, a division of troops from East Africa, arrived soon after, and together with British and Indian forces, pushed the Japanese back to Rangoon.

Republican isolationists will say that's a big bundle for moving one division of troops downtown, but we can denounce those skinflints for being pro-Mideast-war.

In July the government sent a division of troops into the valley to try to contain the violence, but they have met with frequent attacks.

American officials have been saying for several days that the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, has deployed a division of troops into western Iraq, near Jordan, apparently in a move intended to unnerve the summit meeting.

The Americans would keep an Army division in and around Baghdad, and likely some presence in northern Iraq Britainn would command a multinational division in the south near Basra and Polandd would command a third division of troops from a variety of nations.

Until the Cedar Falls operation, the Triangle long had a reputation as an enemy stronghold impenetrable to government troops, and had been said to shelter a full division of enemy troops and also a vast system of bunkers and tunnels used by the Front as headquarters for its Military Region IV, which surrounds the city of Saigon.

There were nearly 70,000 U.S. troops in South Korea in the early 1970s when the Nixon administration first recalled an entire division of 20,000 troops.

He was in command of a division of French troops in Morocco, with H.Q. at Casablanca, when the Americans landed.

He hired a division of eunuch troops to control the palace and created a network of spies throughout the empire.

At the moment the coalition most needs a boost, leaders of the powerful Turkish Army are now ready to provide a division of peacekeeping troops.