Sentence examples for troops for the first from inspiring English sources

There, Union troops for the first time raised the United States flag over a Confederate fortification.

Italy was free of enemy troops for the first time in 15 years.

A new crisis developed in March 1938, when Hitler's troops for the first time crossed a frontier into Austria.

Hizbullah battled openly alongside Syrian troops for the first time to take back the town of Qusayr on June 5th.

In 1770 Russian troops for the first time crossed the Caucasus range and took possession of Kʿutʿaisi.

Rioters turned out with bows and arrows late last night in the New Lodge Road area to counter water cannon, used by the troops for the first time since the Ulster strife began.

Forces loyal to a renegade south Sudanese general clashed with government troops for the fourth time in two weeks on Friday, leaving at least five soldiers dead, the southern army said.

Germany sent troops abroad for the first time since World War II when it contributed a force to the NATO peacekeeping effort in Kosovo in 1999.

The Ministry of Defence knew beforehand that the Department of Health feared problems might arise from administering anthrax and whooping cough vaccines together to troops bound for the first Gulf war, it was claimed yesterday.

As a result, Israel has been changing its military infrastructure along the frontier with Syria, planning a continuous fence and the installation of electro-optical devices and radar, and deploying some of its most highly trained troops there for the first time in more than 30 years.

The unit came into contact with North Vietnamese troops frequently for the first several months of its deployment, but most of these were small hit-and-run attacks.