Sentence examples for rebel column from inspiring English sources

The rebel column tore into the Yankees.

"The rebel column is on the move," he told me.

At 4 p.m., a long rebel column of pickup trucks drove slowly through Ajdabiya's main street, firing rifles and anti-aircraft machine guns in the air.

Foreign Legion paratroopers repulsed a rebel column a week ago using heavy weapons on a dirt road near the western town of Duekoue, killing six.

Any long-lasting campaign raises questions as well about the prospects for rebel success in the east, where a small, ill-trained rebel column had been stalled for days along the two-lane highway to Brega.

With no warning, Mr Hollande sent French fighter jets, based in France and nearby Chad, as well as attack helicopters, to strike a rebel column advancing towards Bamako, the capital.

A rebel spokesman in northern Unity states told Reuters rebel columns were closing in on Juba though there was no independent confirmation and the SPLA has regularly dismissed similar reports over the past week.

Using warplanes based both in France and at a permanent base in nearby Chad, the French struck rebel columns advancing out of Islamist-held territory and towards Bamako, the Malian capital.

But when the rebel columns began advancing on Bamako last January, Hollande moved in decisively with troops and jets, seeking at the same time to mobilize regional forces to take over from the French as soon as possible.

Indeed, much of the capital had already been liberated by the time the rebel columns entered and began mopping up the remaining pockets of pro-regime forces.

Guevara was instrumental in creating the clandestine radio station Radio Rebelde (Rebel Radio) in February 1958, which broadcast news to the Cuban people with statements by the 26th of July movement, and provided radiotelephone communication between the growing number of rebel columns across the island.