advance force

“After covering a hundred miles and passing the Third Cataract, Kitchener’s scouts detected at the village of Karma an advance force of three thousand warriors under the khalifa’s emir at Dongola, Mohammed Bishara.”

Simon & Schuster: Three Empires on the Nile

“Page 204 and Sedgwick had halted with his whole force and formed line on the river, occupying with his advance force the road from which Colonel Penn had been driven.”

Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States,

“He pushed his advance force at full speed down the valley of the Cydnus River to Tarsus and was at the gates of the city just in time to see Arsames running for his life toward Persia.”

Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

“Array the advance force that is to engage the Town Guard garrison on the opposite shore.”

Conqueror's Moon

“The advance force led by Prince Conrig had arrived.”

Conqueror's Moon

“Contemporaneous accounts given by the enemy represent this movement on our part as a very serious one, and he was evidently impressed with the idea that the greater part of our army was immediately confronting him, whereas, if it had not been for his excessive caution and want of enterprise, he might have moved out and captured the whole of our advance force without the possibility of its escape.”

Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States,