Sentence examples for regiment fight from inspiring English sources
Jordy Diago, a Spanish illustrator, has produced a comic-book version of Sven Hassel's classic 1959 semi-autobiographical novel of tank warfare, Wheels of Terror (W&N), a title much loved by British men of a certain age who devoured it as teenagers (stationed on the eastern front, Hassel and his comrades from the 27th Panzer regiment fight on, not for Hitler, or for Germany, but for themselves).
In an attack on Fort Wagner, on Morris Island in Charleston, South Carolina, the 54th Regiment fought valiantly against a stronger Confederate force.
The regiment fought in the battles of Iuka and Corinth in Mississippi in 1862, where Wood experienced both the thrill and horrors of combat.
Known for fine marksmanship, the regiment fought in France in the First World War and in Baghdad in the early nineteen-twenties.
His regiment fought Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson in the Valley Campaign, was hit hard at Cedar Mountain and was in the hellish maelstrom of Antietam's infamous cornfield.
The Folgore parachute regiment fought for 13 days before surrendering and were allowed to keep their arms as a tribute to their courage.
In rich detail, Mr. Nelson recalls how the regiment fought valiantly at the front (and through its marching band helped introduce jazz to Europe).
The 13th Regiment fought at Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor and Petersburg and were the first Union troops to enter Richmond after its evacuation by Confederate forces in April , 1865
The British Army was thumping George Washington's troops, but an out-manned Maryland regiment fought off the British long enough for the rest of the American troops to escape and fight another day.
Before the novel, park grounds contained no monument to Longstreet, while its most popular site today, where Chamberlain and the 20th Maine regiment fought on Little Round Top, was hard to find.
Over the next three years the regiment fought in nine major battles, including a blocking maneuver that helped Marines complete a fighting retreat from the Chinese Communist onslaught at the Chosin Reservoir in December 1950.
