Sentence examples for main defensive position from inspiring English sources

D Company, 3 RAR was subsequently released and it returned to battalion's main defensive position.

The main defensive position ringing Antwerp would be protected by the Belgians, barely 10 km from the city.

By 18 July most of the enemy positions had been disabled, and that night Stuart, supported by Nelson, stormed the main defensive position and captured it.

The North Korean attacks drove K Company from Yongju that night, forcing them back towards the battalion's main defensive position 3.2 km to the north.

The Canadians successfully withdrew in small groups back to the company main defensive position, where they eventually halted the Chinese advance.

The North Korean attacks drove the American paratroopers from Yongju, forcing them back onto the battalion's main defensive position to the north.

The defending force would then retire to the main defensive positions along the River Dyle, where they would link up with other Allied forces.

The British Army's British Expeditionary Force or B.E.F, commanded by General John Vereker, Lord Gort, was to occupy the central position in the Brussels Ghent gap supporting the Belgian Army holding the main defensive positions some 20 km east of Brussels.

Being fully motorised, it used its mobility to outmanoeuvre the Partisans, bypassing their main defensive positions to the west, with the Cossack pioneers playing an important role in keeping the column moving.

Charles planned to charge past the Russian line of redoubts, without stopping to subdue them, and directly assault the main Russian defensive position.

(c) The Belgian Army was to hold the sector excluding Leuven, but including Antwerp as part of the main Allied defensive position.