Sentence examples for formations of troops from inspiring English sources
Fang's visit to Washington was heralded with a rare full military honours ceremony on the Pentagon's parade field, complete with a US navy band, formations of troops from all of the services and a 19-gun salute.
No one does the Triumphal March of Act II like the Met: brilliantly lighted, with onstage trumpets, horses, near-endless formations of troops, war booty, wagon loads of corpses, prisoners and much, much more.
Richards warned that even large states such as China and Russia could adopt unconventional tactics rather than preparing for fighting with missiles and fixed formations of troops and armour.
In explaining the new focus on picking off individual Taliban tanks and formations of troops on the ground, Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cautioned not to think of the campaign against terror as a traditional conflict that moves in easily identifiable phases.
On 19 October 1950, large formations of Chinese troops, dubbed the People's Volunteer Army PVAA), secretly crossed the border and into North Korea.
Within days, ships and aircraft from several nations, as well as the first major formations of US troops, were moving to South Korea, setting the stage for a full-scale conflict.
He said the "air force" had "bombarded" the Afghan soldiers; a NATO official later said a helicopter had fired a single rocket into the formation of Afghan troops.
His unit came under the command of Prince Henry of Prussia, an officer who understood the value of the new military formation of light troops for skirmishing and raids.
In rendering military terms — officers, details of troops, formations, movements, and the like — it seemed best as a rule to give the nearest English equivalent, and to refer the reader to Appendix A at the end of the book for a more detailed description of the Roman Army.
The deployment of troops and the formation of vigilante groups drove many of them out of Maiduguri, their main urban base and they retreated to the vast Sambisa forest to the south and the Mandara Mountains, close to the border with Cameroon.
The Washington Post reported last week that the American authorities in Baghdad had agreed, with some reluctance, to the formation of an Iraqi-led counter-terrorism militia composed of troops from the nation's five largest political parties.
