Sentence examples for had a bridgehead from inspiring English sources

For a short time Urartu thus had a bridgehead west of the Euphrates from Malatya to Halfeti (ancient Halpa) in Commagene, and its empire reached to within 20 miles (32 km) of Aleppo in northern Syria.

They have a bridgehead in London and the South East of England.

Germans already have a bridgehead over canal west of Eecloo.

By 28 November, the German 7th Panzer Division had seized a bridgehead across the Moscow-Volga Canal the last major obstacle before Moscow and stood less than 35 km from the Kremlin; but a powerful counterattack by the 1st Shock Army drove them back across the canal.

Bruce concluded that Australia's position in the world had changed as a result of World War II, commenting: [Australia] has become a bridgehead between East and West.

But whereas Vredestein has been a bridgehead for Apollo's products in Europe, Tata's cars have made few inroads there.Nor did JLR seem to need any advice from Tata on how to run its plants in Britain.

Just two weeks after the critic Lee Siegel launched a literary war by declaring American fiction "culturally irrelevant", US writers have established a bridgehead on the world's richest prize for a collection of short stories, taking five out of six slots on the Frank O'Connor award shortlist.

Having won a bridgehead and a clear path for reinforcements from Italy, he advanced on the city of Dyrrhachium, the capital and chief port of Illyria.

By the end of the day, the forces at Omaha were to have established a bridgehead five miles (8 km) deep, linked up with the British 50th Division landed at Gold to the east, and be in position to move on Isigny the next day, linking up with the American VII Corps at Utah to the west.

The Army of the Lower Rhine had a 20,000-strong right wing under Duke Ferdinand Frederick Augustus of Württemberg on the east bank observing the French bridgehead at Düsseldorf.

Lafontaine had had a mission plan since 20 00 on 13 May to defeat the Germans and retake the Meuse bridgeheads, but he waited for an order to proceed.