Sentence examples for platoon of troops from inspiring English sources

He refused to take along the reinforced platoon of troops considered the minimum escort, because an escort would slow him down.

Were it scooped out, revealing the remains of the great sloping wall, it would form a suitable base for a platoon of troops, caps on bayonets, and a 38-gun salute to one of the great public works in New York history.

Having backed himself into a corner, Carsen's final gesture is a ridiculous pantomime in which the Feldmarschall makes his long-awaited return, leading a platoon of troops outfitted with Faninal's weapons; Octavian will die in the war, just like the Cherubino of Mozart and Beaumarchais, the character on which he was modelled.

Pushing across the river with one platoon of troops, Carlson encountered a small group of Japanese who shot and severely wounded the native scout leading the Marine column.

Since marines took over here this month, they have sent platoons of troops into the heart of the city.

Twelve Heinkel He 59 seaplanes, crowded with two platoons of troops, landed in the heart of the city and unloaded assault teams that conquered the Willemsbrug, a bridge over the Nieuwe Maas, to occupy a bridgehead.

Restrepo, a war documentary following a platoon of US troops in Afghanistan, won a prize at the Sundance film festival this year.

So a platoon of American troops drove up a bomb-cratered road in their Stryker vehicles on Thursday to give the Iraqis some pointers on how to hold the line.

Later in the day, obviously tipped off about a cache of guns, a platoon of American troops rumbled up Rasool Street to the gates of the shrine and began searching sidewalks and cars.

The festivities have included a platoon of Revolutionary War troops camping on the Great Hill and a "BioBlitz" in which bird-watchers, bat-freaks, lepidopterists, ichthyologists, and many other -ists spent twenty-four hours combing the wilds of the Park for flora and fauna.

Having secured a commission from Vanity Fair to spend a year following a platoon of US troops in the heavily contested Korengal valley in north-eastern Afghanistan, with a unit "considered the tip of the spear for the American forces," Junger had the idea to film his time there from the beginning.