Sentence examples for troops advanced into from inspiring English sources

French troops advanced into Cilicia in the southeast.

The Bohemians were forced to retreat, and imperial troops advanced into their country.

Later it came to refer to roads along which troops advanced into unfriendly territory.

But everything changed in May 1940, when Nazi troops advanced into the Netherlands.

Treaties of friendship were promptly signed between Georgia and Germany and between Armenia and Turkey, and Turkish troops advanced into Azerbaijan, where they occupied Baku on September 15.

On Monday, the Sri Lankan military said it had crushed the rebels as its troops advanced into an ever-narrowing strip of land measuring no more than half a square mile in the northeast of the country.

A week after Baghdad announced the start of the assault, its troops advanced in large numbers into the city limits for the first time on Monday, pouring into rural territory on its southern outskirts but stopping short of the main built-up area.

Russian troops advanced further into Georgia, moving to within 25 miles of the capital at one point yesterday, even as the Kremlin announced that it had signed, and would abide by, a ceasefire stipulating that it withdraws its troops from the territory it has occupied.

South Sudanese troops advanced deep into Sudan on April 10th, capturing its most valuable oilfield, Heglig, in the biggest clash since the south seceded from the north last July.

The government also said its troops advanced farther into rebel territory on Thursday, capturing a facility that it described as a factory that made roadside bombs.

But as troops advanced deeper into Germany, the reporters accompanying them or following behind began to reveal the astonishing scale of devastation: it seemed as though Germany would never be able to build a factory again, let alone a city.