Sentence examples for forming a bridgehead from inspiring English sources

On 16 August, Lieutenant General Alexey Grechkin's group launched an amphibious assault over Lake Peipus behind the German left (east) flank, beating the Omakaitse defence and forming a bridgehead in the village of Mehikoorma.

The TUV founder predicted victory would form a "bridgehead" which would win the party seats in next year's assembly elections.

They eventually formed a bridgehead across by the morning of 6 July, but continued stubborn resistance meant they were unable to protect the east flank of the II SS-Panzer Corps.

The patrol was then reinforced by 'A' and 'B' Companies, and fought a three hour battle trying to form a bridgehead.

Meanwhile, B and C Companies of the Argylls formed a bridgehead over the Taeryong around the far-side of the partially destroyed bridge near Kujin, while A Company occupied positions astride the road to the south.

The 13th Parachute Battalion then led the brigade attack into the town; their objective was to cross both branches of the Touques in the town and form a bridgehead on the northern bank.

Roy and Sgt Don Randall used scaling ladders and grenades to accomplish the former, and a head-on rush to secure the bridge and form a bridgehead that enabled Capt.

Sectarian uprisings bring about radical change but invite possible participation of groups banned in the past, but they form a bridgehead for more moderate forms of Islamic democracy that will not fit in well with the regional and global security relationships forged as late as 2010.

In the North, the Wons Position formed a bridgehead at the eastern end of the Enclosure Dike; it had a long perimeter of about nine kilometres to envelop enough land to receive a large number of retreating troops without making them too vulnerable to air attack.

Wilmot in 1952 wrote that the operation was intended to draw the I SS Panzer Corps and the newly arrived II SS Panzer Corps into battle around Caen. Hart wrote that Montgomery wanted to keep the initiative and prevent German armoured forces moving from the east of the bridgehead to the west against the US First Army or being relieved and forming a reserve.

A bridgehead was formed by the division, and it successfully repulsed a number of German counter-attacks until Allied ground forces from the invasion beaches reached its positions.