Left manning a thin outpost line on his own all day, Seydlitz had no idea what was happening even five kilometers from where he sat.
The remainder of the brigade assembled south of their outpost line "ready to act."
By 11:00, the infantry began to move forward, advancing from crater to crater beyond what had been the German outpost line.
Their hole was the first in the enemy combat outpost line, and their job would have been to report back when something evil this way came.
Today (1937) a battalion position consists of an outpost line and a main battle position through which the forces are organized in great depth.
At 0500 the Greeks attacked, clearing out the Bulgarian outpost line.
Henceforth, positions beyond that line would be held as an outpost line.
That night there was a minor probe along the outpost line across the canal.
We passed the inner 17 barbed wire fence, which meant the head of the column should be even with the outpost line.
The outpost line was withdrawn at 17:30 without incident.