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Therefore, a fortification located on an important road would be able to slow or stop a large troop formation.

They were wielded in either single combat or in large troop formations.

When the Spring and Autumn period began, more attention was paid to troop formations according to the type of battle.

The Tet Offensive of 1968 gave the squadron a chance to fight the enemy's troop formations in open combat.

The troops formations would fall back to the Dhaka outer line to defend Dhaka as needed.

Both troop formations and the flexibility of the chariot subsequently underwent major developments with infantry placing a much larger role in combat.

Before the mechanization of troop formations, most rear guard tactics originally contemplated the use of cavalry forces.

The name originates from the ancient practice of military mining, where tunnels were dug under enemy fortifications or troop formations by sappers.

After his remarks, Mr. Baker climbed down from the podium and shook the hands of the officers standing in front of each troop formation.

Both figures pale in comparison to the armies that would be fielded in the early 19th century, where troop formations approached or exceeded 100,000 men.

The second division of the War Ministry dealt with general army matters: troop formations, replacements and turnover, housing, military exercises, and mobilization.

NATO air strikes focused again on Serbian ground troops in Kosovo, striking at tanks, barracks and troop formations in the forests.

With the fall of Soviet Union, Border Troops formations in most Soviet republics became border guards of the respective independent states.

And so, the initial troop formations had been pulled back and replaced with others, drawn from farther away, young soldiers (all soldiers were young, Nomuri reminded himself).

Kiljugun - Extensive military buildup with motorized troop formations and construction of new advanced underground facility - Site of May 25, 2009, Nuclear Test.

The earliest challenge to naval artillery was the advent of aircraft and armour piercing/incendiary bombs, which could be used against land based targets in support of troop formations ashore.

The Ukrainian forces at that time consisted of two regular troop formations, the Zaporozhian Corps and the Sich Riflemen, as well as partisan detachments.

In view of the apparent defeat of the French, even larger Saxon troop formations went over to the Coalition during the battle, whereas the Polish troops were largely annihilated.

Iranian military advisors organised the Kurds into raiding parties of 12 guerrillas, which would attack Iraqi command posts, troop formations, infrastructure (including roads and supply lines), and government buildings.

But most importantly he brought the viewer into the battle at a time when the prevailing trend was to present birds-eye views over a battle, showing disposition and locations of troop formations.

The following month, the 502nd guided warplanes in devastating attacks on enemy troop formations, which blunted communist offensives until the s:Korean Armistice Agreement was signed in July 1953.

The missile fired may have been targeting rebel troop formations around Ajdabiyah, a key junction town seized from the regime earlier this year and home to the advance military headquarters of the rebels.

Troop formations included many of them, because joining the army was one of the ways to become a free negro, and in many cases slave owners were forced to release them to strengthen the armies.

Deployed initially to England in September 1942 and flew some missions under VIII Bomber Command over German-occupied France attacking enemy troop formations, bridges and airfields.

Waterloo, his harrowing final loss, looks no different from any of the production's dozen or so martial moments: wide shots of DeMille-scale troop formations, close-ups of uniformed torsos with bloody perforations.