Continuing east toward Jackson, Indiana troops in the vanguard of McPherson's column expected a "severe struggle".
Ewald and a few of his jägers were in the vanguard of Grant's column and engaged the American sentries to the south of Bound Brook.
After a short period of rest, the breakout began on 6 December with the 7th Marines as the vanguard of the retreating column while the 5th Marines covered the rear.
In the vanguard of Paine's assault column were two regiments deployed as skirmishers, and other troops armed with hand grenades.
Gave them men's names with a on the end - Thomasina and Horatia - not so much in thwart for boy-children as out of a strange, bohemian affectation of her mother's, who got their names from the Times' death columns to place herself in the vanguard of the 1960s vogue for preposterous first names.
Francis' men had formed a column to march out around 7 15 when the British vanguard began cresting the hill behind them.
Both battalions advanced in columns, each pushing a company ahead as a vanguard.
Or like Andrew McCarthy, who in a truly unhinged column compares "Hispanic activists" to Islamists in that both "are the vanguard of a different culture that they passionately believe is superior to the culture of individual liberty".
He redistributed the four columns: Condé's Emigré Corps formed the far right column, and Condé's grandson, Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, commanded its vanguard; the second column, commanded by the young but reliable Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg, included 9 battalions and 26 squadrons.
"Like the horses that come from behind, Venezuela passed from being a dark and minimized country subordinated to the Yankee empire, to hold a lighting place of vanguard in the fights of the peoples of the world for its freedom," said a recent column, translated into English by the state news agency.
