van-guard

Already, round the far side of the Isan'lwana hill, the van-guard of the Zulu right "horn" was streaming down like a black lance-head to cut the track; I. could make out the green monkey caps and plumes of the Tulwana regiment.

Watershed 2010

All the harmony of the season was complete in one gracious whole; the entrances and exits of spring took place in proper order; the lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May.

Les Miserables 2008

They are the van-guard—the miners, and sappers—of returning despotism.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

They are the van-guard—the miners, and sappers—of returning despotism.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Had the “van-guard” of “returning despotism” prevailed in the United States, or had two hostile republics, one slave and onefree, emerged on the North American continent, it is doubtful whether America would have been strong enough, and free enough,in the decades that followed to resist effectively the slave empires that emerged in Germany and Russia, and that in the twentiethcentury aspired to dominion of the planet.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Had the “van-guard” of “returning despotism” prevailed in the United States, or had two hostile republics, one slave and onefree, emerged on the North American continent, it is doubtful whether America would have been strong enough, and free enough,in the decades that followed to resist effectively the slave empires that emerged in Germany and Russia, and that in the twentiethcentury aspired to dominion of the planet.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Had the “van-guard” of “returning despotism” prevailed in the United States, or had two hostile republics, one slave and onefree, emerged on the North American continent, it is doubtful whether America would have been strong enough, and free enough,in the decades that followed to resist effectively the slave empires that emerged in Germany and Russia, and that in the twentiethcentury aspired to dominion of the planet.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Had the “van-guard” of “returning despotism” prevailed in the United States, or had two hostile republics, one slave and onefree, emerged on the North American continent, it is doubtful whether America would have been strong enough, and free enough,in the decades that followed to resist effectively the slave empires that emerged in Germany and Russia, and that in the twentiethcentury aspired to dominion of the planet.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

They are the van-guard—the miners, and sappers—of returning despotism.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

They are the van-guard—the miners, and sappers—of returning despotism.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007