Sentence examples for full division from inspiring English sources

He also disclosed he had ordered a full division of the French Army home from Algeria.

What does it mean for a full division of infantry to get a "collective bloody nose," or a brigade to have its flank "slapped".

The administration, which had lobbied New Delhi strenuously, had been hoping for a full division of 17,000 peacekeepers, which would have made India the second largest military presence in Iraq after the United States.

Fully driven out of City were Craig Bellamy, exiled to Cardiff City, a full division below, and Stephen Ireland, an academy boy who left complaining about the smashing of City's greenhouse.

Yesterday, though, on a sun-dappled pitch at Hampden Park, Celtic were knocked out of the Scottish Cup by Ross County, the most northerly senior football club in the United Kingdom and a full division below the famous Glasgow giants in the league.

Until the Cedar Falls operation, the Triangle long had a reputation as an enemy stronghold impenetrable to government troops, and had been said to shelter a full division of enemy troops and also a vast system of bunkers and tunnels used by the Front as headquarters for its Military Region IV, which surrounds the city of Saigon.

In comparison Belgium, despite a smaller and more aged male population, fielded 22 full divisions and the equivalent of 30 divisions when smaller units were included.

Patton then clarified that he had already worked up an operational order for a counterattack by three full divisions on December 21, then only 48 hours away.

Unfortunately, shortly before dawn on May 12, Union forces comprising three full divisions (Major General Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps) attacked the Mule Shoe through heavy fog, taking the Confederate forces by surprise.

In all, Patton would reposition six full divisions, U.S. III Corps and U.S. XII Corps, from their positions on the Saar River front along a line stretching from Bastogne to Diekirch and to Echternach.

However, full divisions are generally not frequent and the newly formed cells do not survive for long.