Sentence examples for forming up for from inspiring English sources

Shortly afterwards North Korean forces were detected forming up for an assault on the right flank against B Company, and these preparations were broken up with mortars.

The ships are ordered in the sequence in which they formed up for battle.

The next morning, even before the British column began to form up for the march to Fort Edward, the Indians renewed attacks on the largely defenceless British.

In addition to the new reserves, he also convinced about 200 of the wounded to form up for the third attack.

In the pre-dawn hours of June 17, the divisions of the IX Corps formed up for an assault on the entrenched Confederate position outside Petersburg.

A small procession formed up for the short journey to the rifle range, comprising Lody and his armed escort, the Tower's Chaplain and the eight-man firing squad.

As C Troop reached the forming up point for the assault it met heavy machine gun fire from the gun battery.

His luck held; the German commander — Friedrich Kreß von Kressenstein — selected the same position as the forming up area for his attack in August 1916.

He ordered the four aircraft to form up, calling for a two-by-two formation, a "staggered box".

Although they form up in groups for the sake of greater influence within the European Parliament, they work and even sometimes vote on national lines.

After making two trips to Philadelphia and back, she departed for Cape Cod Bay to form up with convoy BX 28 for Halifax, where she arrived on 11 July.