Sentence examples for salient ridge from inspiring English sources

A pottery wine ewer with a spout in the shape of a cockerel on loan from the National Museum of Vietnamese History is quite unlike its Han prototype with its salient ridge, and, most tellingly, the liveliness of the cockerel's head.

The Germans occupying the small salient on ridge soon found themselves being attacked along their flanks by continuously reinforced Canadian Corps troops.

The main attack by the 32nd Division was intended to expand the west side of the salient, while an advance north along the ridge was to gain observation over the valleys to the north and east.

In mid-July the British began a two-week artillery bombardment of a series of scarcely visible ridges rising gently around the salient on which the Germans waited.

The town of Thélus fell during the second day of the attack, as did the crest of the ridge once the Canadian Corps overcame a salient of considerable German resistance.

In the salient at Passchendaele, the 33rd Division faced east along the ridge, the 8th Division held the apex of the salient facing north-east and the 32nd Division faced north.

In Figure 9, we follow Eagles et al. [ 2004a] in showing a Bellingshausen-Phoenix ridge segment to the east of the Charcot salient.

In January 1916, General Sir Herbert Plumer recommended to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig the capture of Messines Ridge (part of the southern arc of the Ypres Salient) before an operation to capture the Gheluvelt plateau further north.

Bakr Ridge in the Judean Hills was situated to the west of the salient at El Musallabe which was held by the EEF.

The objective was to eliminate a salient that had developed in the line south of Ypres, enclosing the Wytschaete Messines ridge and thus providing the Germans with good observation and fields of fire that could threaten the major offensive that the British planned to launch around Ypres later in the year.

Located in the Ypres Salient, 3 km east of Ypres, Belgium, the Battle of Mount Sorrel took place along a ridge between Hooge and Zwartelee.