Sentence examples for strong infantry from inspiring English sources

In addition, the Royal Guard 904 corps, a six-battalion strong infantry regiment tasked with guarding the royal family since its inception in 1859, has been placed under his command.

Panzer-Regiment 2 was ordered to engage the Soviet T-26 tanks which were supported by strong infantry units.

Having been repulsed earlier, the Russians decided to force the position at Heinrichsdorf, and they assembled a strong infantry force preceded by no less than 60 cavalry squadrons, plus around 2,000 Cossacks.

Schwarzkopf devised an operational plan, dubbed "Operation Desert Storm," to be based on overwhelming force and strong infantry attacks supported by artillery and armor, using the desert warfare strategies based on British commander Bernard Montgomery's defeat of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at the Second Battle of El Alamein in World War II.

According to the latest UN security council report, two-thirds of Minusma's 10,600-strong infantry capacity is occupied with escorting food and fuel convoys and securing camps and stores.

At this stage of the war, the New Zealand Division was still one of the strongest infantry divisions of the Dominion serving on the Western Front.

Formed in 1809 when war broke out between the First French Empire and the Austrian Empire, the corps initially comprised a mixed force, around 2,300 strong, of infantry, cavalry and later supporting artillery.

Currently the sole Nato contingent in Estonia is a 150-strong US infantry company, stationed temporarily.

The Organization Todt had now started to reinforce gun emplacements with infantry strong points along the French coastline.

Generals Małachowski and Dembiński intended to attack the flank of the Russians assaulting Wola with a strong force (3500 infantry, 800 cavalry and 10 pieces of horse artillery) under General Paweł Muchowski gathered in Młociny (near Fort 62a).

The 19th century American historian John Lothrop Motley, on the other hand, reduces the strength of the English force to 200 cavalry and 300 pikemen, though adding that "a much stronger force of infantry was held in reserve and readiness".