relieving force

He added himself to the relieving force here, and took comfort in the discovery that for some hours he had little enough to do.

This operation consisted of a pincer movement which threatened to cut off the relieving forces.

It was considered by the relieving forces that the Japanese were pursuing a policy of deliberate starvation.

The lieutenant and his men joined the relieving force and took further part in fighting during which he was again wounded.

The first relieving force failed to relieve.

MacDonald began to construct an extensive system of siege works designed to keep the garrison inside and any potential relieving force outside.

When Bursuq heard of Baldwin's relieving force, he withdrew to the east.

With the relieving force dispensed with, the capture of the fort resumed.

Orders went out to attack the settlement of Isturiacha immediately and to overwhelm it before the relieving force arrived.

The Hōjō tried a risky tactic, coordinating a night attack between the garrison and the relieving force.

'The Salvation Army' was the nickname by which they expressed their gratitude to the relieving force.

"There's no timetable for the relieving force."

What chance of a relieving force?"

When no news of the relieving forces came, Hitler, prompted by Bormann, began to expect new treacheries.

But it was much hotter than this when the relieving forces marched to Lucknow in the time of the Mutiny.

A rumour spread through the camp that a relieving force from Dinapur had been cut to pieces on the way to Krishnapur.

Months of fighting resulted in great losses, largely from frostbite and disease, but relieving forces failed to reach the garrison at Przemysl.

A wireless message was then received during the morning that a relieving force from Yong Peng was on its way.

Then they turned back a relieving force of Republican Guards, destroying an armored personnel carrier and several troop transports.

On May 17th, five days after the fight, the relieving force arrived, the besiegers were scattered, and the long-imprisoned garrison were free men once more.

The English garrison, however, held out against a Scottish army, aided by French engineers, until a relieving force arrived.

Relieving force?"

He had been feeling besieged, and if he was not mistaken, he had just received a delegation from the relieving force.

They could also act as bases from which defenders could make sorties against isolated groups of barbarians and to cooperate with relieving forces.

When a French relieving force approached the town, Despenser decided to abandon the siege on 8 August, after eight weeks of effort.