Sentence examples for frontier troops from inspiring English sources

The border districts were protected by contingents of frontier troops, led by their own officers or lords of the marches.

We throw chocolates up to the putty-faced East German frontier troops, as they stand guard – against whom?

He allows them to issue an order for frontier troops to man their battle stations and disperse the Soviet Air Force away from the border.

In retaliation for the deaths of its frontier troops, Pakistan withdrew its personnel from border security coordination centers and shut down routes used to move supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan from its territory.

An army was dispatched from the capital to quell the rebellion, but the Taira forces, weakened by many years of luxurious living, were no match for the frontier troops and were immediately defeated.

East Germany had 47,000 frontier troops, who had orders to use force to prevent people from escaping before the former Communist Government decided on Nov. 9 to allow anybody who wished to leave.

A distinction between frontier guard troops and more mobile reserve forces had emerged with the use of certain troops to permanently man frontiers such as Hadrian's Wall in Britannia in the 2nd century AD.

On the Illinois frontier, federal troops carried cholera into communities which were already beset by seasonal epidemics.

Commanders feared that if detainees were handed over to the courts and formally charged, they would be released, placing army and frontier corps troops at risk.

On Sunday, the Pakistani army suffered one of its worst single attacks when a bomb planted on a privately hired truck preparing to shuttle frontier corps troops out of their base in the north-west town of Bannu exploded, killing 26 and injuring as many more.

In that year the Romans were forced to denude much of their German frontier of troops in response to a massive invasion by another new Germanic tribal confederacy, the Goths, from the east.