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• The refit plan recommended that the first battalion be motorized to upgrade their offensive capabilities.From the entry motorize
• The officers deemed it necessary to pre-position at least three battalions in case of a breakout.From the entry pre-position
• It was deemed necessary to keep at least three battalions pre-positioned in case of a breakout.From the entry pre-positioned
• An officer who commands a special operations battalion.From the entry special operations
• The forward battalion took a hammering.From the entry forward
• The battalion moved quickly inland, ascending the north-facing slopes of Mount Parker.2019 July 15, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry Mount Parker
• Jal had entered the battalion embittered by his previous experiences, and had started out as backtalker.2009, Joshua Chase, Galactic Conquest, page 146. From the entry backtalker
• A third is that they perished while serving in the special Afro-Argentine male battalions of the army.2003, C. Michael Hawn, Gather Into One: Praying and Singing Globally. From the entry Afro-Argentine
• For the rolling barrage, one battery in each battalion fired low, bursting shrapnel instead of the standard high explosive.2014, Edward G. Lengel, A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 350. From the entry barrage
• Through these intense two days, the provisional battalion endured sporadic artillery attacks, aircraft strafings, and small arms fire.2012, Victor Cleary, The Complete Clarksburg Ohio World War II Guide, page 176. From the entry strafing
• The militia battalion of Lichiapao production brigade of Huanghua County, Hopeh, is an advanced unit on the Pohai Sea front.1972 July 12 [1972 June 12], “Heroic Militia on the Pohai Front”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 135…. From the entry Pohai Sea
• Most types of German field divisions include an organic reconnaissance battalion, and the remainder have strong reconnaissance companies.1945, U.S. War Department, Handbook on German Military Forces, LSU Press, published 1990, page 161. From the entry organic
• In single file, in battalions, as solitary scout, alive or dead, baconed and sausaged, he dominates the town.1904, M[ilburg] F[rancisco] Mansfield, B[lanche] McM[anus], Romantic Ireland, volume II, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company…. From the entry sausage
• "I was reassigned over from the 9th when the battalion CO got waxed on the road leading in." Ben kept his dismay to himself.2005, David L. Robbins, Liberation Road: A Novel of World War II and the Red Ball Express, page 83. From the entry wax
• When Sun was ejected from Canton, the Kwangsi militarists took control of Kwangtung, but Ch’en and his twenty battalions were safe in Fuchien.1966, George T. Yu, “Rebirth: Prelude to Reorganization”, in Party Politics in Republican China: The Kuomintang, 1912-1924, University of…. From the entry Fuchien
• A separate operation by the “Perun” battalion of unmanned systems from the 42nd Separate Mechanized Brigade targeted another Tor-M2 system near the village of Hrafivka in Russia’s Belgorod region.2025 January 23rd, Lucile Brizard, “Ukrainian Drones Hit Russian Tor-M2 and Buk-M3 Systems in Zaporizhzhia and Belgorod Regions”, in…. From the entry Hrafivka
• Apart from 1 RAR, all the battalions included National Servicemen (Nashos), but in the field there was no distinction between the Nashos and the Regular soldiers (Regs).2010, David Horner, Australia′s Military History For Dummies, unnumbered page. From the entry nasho
• The white Rhodie ‘nashos’ (another derogatory term for national servicemen—this time from the Brit regulars), however, brought to the battalion a level of education that was previously unknown.2007, Alexandre Binda, Chris Cocks, The Saints: The Rhodesian Light Infantry, page 176. From the entry nasho
• Communications were often difficult, and liaison across the interbrigade boundary was well nigh impossible because there was no continuous "front" but, rather, a series of battalion positions and objectives.1983, Military Review, volume 63, page 70. From the entry interbrigade
• A troopie with a north-of-England accent says it would be just like taking a battalion of the IRA and sticking them in with the army in Ulster.1983, David Caute, Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia, page 187. From the entry troopie
• After this operation one battalion was left to garrison Chungshan; one company occupied Hsiaolan, about 25 kilometers northwest of Chungshan; and two companies patrolled the mountains north of Macao.1962, Chalmers A. Johnson, Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China 1937-1945, Stanford University…. From the entry Chungshan
• So into at least one state troops poured, a battalion of decent National Service lads, to continue to carry, posthumously as it must be supposed, the White Man's Burden.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 609. From the entry white man's burden
• Also on the 4th, the left flank detachment (one infantry battalion) which had advanced southward from Lienchiang, occupied two islands in the mouth of Lien Chiang.1956, Army Operations in China, January 1944 - August 1945, Office of the Chief of Military History, page 179. From the entry Lienchiang
• The regular battalions of the regiment, though officered mainly by Anglo-Welshmen of county families, did not normally contain more than about one Welshman in fifty in the ranks.1929, Robert Graves, chapter 10, in Good-Bye to All That, London: Jonathan Cape, page 115. From the entry officer

Meaning of battalion

1. noun An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.
2. noun An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters; forming part of a brigade.
3. noun Any large body of troops.

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How do you use battalion in a sentence?

Battalion is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The refit plan recommended that the first battalion be motorized to upgrade their offensive capabilities.”

What is a short sentence with battalion?

“The forward battalion took a hammering.”

What does battalion mean?

Battalion means an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.