"The multinational force and a follow-on United Nations peacekeeping operation go hand in hand," Mr. Negroponte said, referring to these vanguard troops as "a crucial short-term bridge" between the current chaos and the arrival of United Nations forces.
Days later, Gaozong narrowly escaped on horseback, just a few hours ahead of Jurchen vanguard troops.
A vanguard of 100 troops flew into Bagram Air Base north of Kabul after the Taliban fled the capital.
On this expedition Gage's regiment was in the vanguard of the troops when they came upon a company of French and Indians who were trying to set up an ambush.
Due to the entanglement of the vanguard with Royalist troops, it was unable to make any significant progress, and it took approximately half an hour of close-quarters fighting in the mouth of the Whitchurch-Chester Road to force the Royalists back.
A confused encounter fight followed in which the vanguard of the Dutch troops, poorly supported by their artillery, began to give way at around 12 30 to the encroaching SS troops.
The vanguard of the Dutch troops, not having been informed of their presence, mistook the red air recognition cloths strapped on top of the German armour for orange flags French vehicles might use to indicate their friendly intentions orange being seen by the Dutch as their national colour and ran towards the vehicles to welcome them, only understanding their error when they were gunned down.
Continuing east toward Jackson, Indiana troops in the vanguard of McPherson's column expected a "severe struggle".
The Kobani reinforcements, led by a small vanguard of about a dozen troops, are expected to eventually number about 150, providing badly needed assistance to the city's defenders.
But at first, these Marines, the vanguard for 6,000 NATO and Afghan troops streaming in to loosen the Taliban's grip here permanently, met no resistance.
In May, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates visited several hundred Marines who had just landed at Camp Leatherneck as the vanguard of more than 20,000 additional troops ordered to Afghanistan by Mr. Obama.
