Sentence examples for large battalion from inspiring English sources

Handpicked from a large battalion of airborne troops, the squadron's 300 highly conditioned soldiers spend most of their time in small patrol bases or on long foot patrols.

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Rather than filing reports from the relative safety of hotels that cater to Western reporters in war-torn nations or from an embedded spot with a large battalion of government-sponsored troops, Guest has instead almost exclusively traveled treacherous rural paths alongside guerrilla forces; warriors without shoes.

In reserve, Farnese deployed a large battalion made up by the German regiments of Hannibal d'Altemps and Georg von Frundsberg, flanked on its right by troops of reiters under Duke Francis of Saxe-Lauenburg, elder brother of Duke Maurice, John Casimir's former lieutenant, and on its left by lancers under Pierre de Taxis.

It was once common on the left to speak of "the class", as if the large battalions of unionised workers – miners, dockers or car workers – represented the working class as such.

The army's reliance on mass tactics required the permanent replenishment of large battalions, an ever-higher level of recruitment, and ever-younger recruits, which supposed a considerable renewal of uniforms and matériel including shoes...

The army's reliance on mass tactics required the permanent replenishment of large battalions, an ever-higher level of recruitment, and ever-younger recruits, which supposed a considerable renewal of uniforms and matériel — including shoes..

The jingoistic industrialized states were able to step up their long-range firepower and support large battalions, leading to the trench warfare of World War I, a war of attrition in Europe that was disastrous for all the combatants.

The 160 Special Forces soldiers on Basilan Island are currently confined to training at the larger battalion level and do not patrol.

"He'd be like, 'the press is around me, I'm the one they are writing about, why aren't you with me?' " General Clark gave in on that, but he still travels with what is probably the largest battalion of aides of any of the candidates.

The 1/52nd were the largest battalion at Waterloo, and one of the few British battalions operating at full strength.