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Example sentences for "defensive position"

  • Company I was able to advance, but Company K ran into a defensive position of five pillboxes along a stream about seventy-five yards from the beach.

  • The battalion therefore moved out at 0730 to Colasian where it set up a defensive position.

  • Unable to retreat westward, the enemy moved northward down a stream bed and set up a defensive position 500 yards west of the road and opposite the center of the advancing column of the 3d Battalion.

  • Fortunately the battalion immediately went into a defensive position, for at 1715 a sharp enemy assault had to be repulsed with machine gun and rifle fire.

  • It served to show that the Boer force was a compact body some six or seven thousand strong, which withdrew in a leisurely fashion, and took up a defensive position at Houtnek, some miles further on.

  • Finding no way through, the force took up a defensive position, part of them in a farm and part on a kopje which overlooked it.

  • General Whiting, with some force, was holding a defensive position at Petersburg.

  • After spending a day on General Magruder's defensive line, he returned to Richmond, and recommended the abandonment of the Peninsula, and that we should take a defensive position nearer to Richmond.

  • But musketry replied to musketry, and finding the road blocked by a line of riflemen, Fremont ordered his troops to occupy a defensive position on Cedar Creek.

  • As Tromp's chief business was to save his convoy and as the English force was now united, he took a defensive position.

  • Instead, he took up a defensive position in the Gulf of Arta, exactly where Antony had collected his fleet before the battle of Actium.

  • On seeing Phormio advance to the attack, the Corinthian drew up his squadron in a defensive position, ranging his vessels in concentric circles, bows outward, like the spokes of a wheel.

  • Suppose that it is actually your business to construct a defensive position.

  • In case the enemy is encountered the flank guard drives him off if practicable or takes up a defensive position, protecting the march of the main column, and preventing the enemy from disturbing the latter's march.

  • However, it may be said that, in general, a defensive position should be near the bottom of the slope.

  • As the camp was within long-range artillery fire from Impati Mountain, the brigade moved off at a moment's notice to the south and took up a defensive position.

  • He took up a defensive position, placing the cavalry in a kraal and the mounted infantry on some rising ground near.

  • It was somewhat trying to think that precious time was being wasted, while the burghers were preparing a defensive position.

  • Indeed, an army that is occupying a defensive position may, on the approach of the enemy, advance to meet him while on the march.

  • The parallel order with a crotchet on the flank, is sometimes used in a defensive position, and also in the offensive with the crotchet thrown forward.

  • This battalion will take up a defensive position in the nearly completed line of trenches, Sand Road-Target Range Fence, and as rapidly as possible complete the trench system in the following order of work: a.

  • If an attack occurs during the march through the boyaux, to or from relief, the company affected occupies the nearest defensive position and at once notifies its battalion commander.

  • They took up a defensive position, and stood to await attack, when their business was to force their way onwards.

  • Whether Villars would have attacked, if the allies had taken up a defensive position to cover the siege, may perhaps be doubted.


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