Sentence examples for regiments behind from inspiring English sources

Washington eventually crossed the Hudson River at Peekskill with most of his army, leaving New England regiments behind to guard supply stores and important river crossings.

The regular cavalry regiments were considered so poor in quality that General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, commanding the advance into Northern Natal, left his six cavalry regiments behind at Ladysmith, trusting in the irregular mounted forces to carry out patrols in their stead.

He served with distinction in Afghanistan, and put his Moscow-based paratroop regiment behind Yeltsin in the crucial days of August 1991, when communist reactionaries and the KGB mounted their disastrous coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.

Smallwood and Sullivan led most of their columns away to attack specific targets, each leaving a regiment behind to cover their line of retreat.

Division Commander Major General Hobart R. Gay outposted the main avenues of entry into his zone and kept his three regiments concentrated behind the outposts.

Byron, in the meantime, was commanded to support an attack by the Royalist musketeers on Skippon's force, drawing his regiments up behind the infantry "ready to second them in case the enemy's horse should advance towards them".

The headquarters of the regiment remained behind to form a new regiment.

Before dawn on 9 August the regiment was behind the Auckland Mounted Rifles heading towards Abd.

The Russian forces included the Don Cossack field artillery battery, containing between eight and twelve guns, drawn up at the bottom of the North Valley, with regiments of cavalry waiting behind it.

Regiments quartered there have left behind thousands of artifacts.

Meanwhile, the 7th Infantry Regiment occupied reserve positions immediately behind the forward regiments.