Sentence examples for from encirclement from inspiring English sources

Having fled from encirclement in the town of Ilovaysk, their column of 70 armoured vehicles and hundreds of soldiers was ambushed and shelled, according to one soldier.

The Ju 87s participated in a huge aerial counter-offensive lasting from 16 31 July against a Soviet offensive at Khotynets and saved two German armies from encirclement, reducing the attacking Soviet 11th Guards Army to just 33 tanks by 20 July.

Germany was defending its lone reliable ally from attack and itself from entente encirclement.

While I was dressing, I heard the boat whistle, first the warning signal and then the double blast, and I could see the good people on the top deck drinking coffee out of fragile paper cups, and Lawrence at the bow, saying to the sea, "Thalassa, thalassa," while his timid and unhappy children watched the creation from the encirclement of their mother's arms..

While I was dressing, I heard the boat whistle, first the warning signal and then the double blast, and I could see the good people on the top deck drinking coffee out of fragile paper cups, and Lawrence at the bow, saying to the sea, "Thalassa, thalassa," while his timid and unhappy children watched the creation from the encirclement of their mother's arms.

He ordered Ogilvy to attempt an escape from the encirclement at Grodno and a retreat towards Brest-Litovsk.

July 1940 to October 1943: A total ban on air operations, and a release of interned German aircraft and pilots, resulting from the encirclement of Swiss territory by the Axis, the implementation of the Réduit strategy, and recognition that the Air Force would be overwhelmed by the Germans in a sustained campaign.

When the final blow at al-Kūt was delivered by a frontal attack on Feb. 22, 1917, British forces were already crossing the river from the west bank behind the town; but though al-Kūt fell two days later most of the Turkish garrison extricated itself from the threatened encirclement.

It's hard to imagine what could have been accomplished from a planned encirclement of an angry no-laws/no-masters populist by a magazine for elites and founded by the sorts of people who get a paper cut and see Yale-blue club ties come unfurling out of the wound.

China does not trust American intentions in Korea or anywhere else, complaining that Washington is already trying to contain it with a policy of encirclement from Mongolia to Vietnam.

Soviet attempts to break into the German encirclement from the east were continuously blocked using tenacious defensive manoeuvres and German air power.