Sentence examples for troops in the first from inspiring English sources

Café commemoration The bravery of the Belgium troops in the First World War became near legendary.

British troops in the first world war were given "forced march tablets" consisting of cocaine.

The African Union (AU) backs him, but letting in foreign troops, in the first instance from Sudan and Uganda, may stir conflict as much as resolve it.

"Did the Christmas football matches between British and German troops in the First World War trenches really take place?" wondered a sceptical Sandy Brook in 2012.

Now, with about 2,000 troops in the first rotation of the 6,000-troop NATO Response Force, France is the force's largest contributor of troops.

Mr. Bush announced his decision on future force levels in Iraq, which includes withdrawing a full brigade of combat troops in the first few weeks of 2009, in an address on Tuesday to the National Defense University here.

The heads disappeared during looting by British and French troops in the Second Opium War in 1860, an event that in China remains a symbol of national humiliation.

The first is from the 1940s, three years before Magnum was established, when Robert Capa (another co-founder) was a photojournalist embedded with British troops in the second world war.

They also get to learn about the contribution made by Indian troops in the second world war as well as hearing firsthand accounts from the residents of the alms houses next door to the school.

Subsequent shows have seen similar studio-based investigations by Chapman into topics including demonic possession and the fate of St Petersburg's famous lost Amber Room, which disappeared after being looted by Nazi troops in the Second World War.

Once the site of a daring amphibious raid by Allied troops in the Second World War, the peninsula is now home to two very different refugee camps.