advanced-guard

He gave himself up to the first advanced-guard of cavalry which he met, as bearer of a flag of truce, and communicated his desire to obtain access to the Duke of Monmouth.

Old Mortality 2004

Staff; then best part of a regiment of infantry; then a company, the reserve of the advanced-guard; then a half-company, the support; then a broken group of men, the advanced party; then, in the very front, the point, a sergeant and half-a-dozen privates trudging sturdily along the road, the scenting nose of the column.

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

Here, as in all mountain fighting, the cardinal principle was piquetting the heights -- that is to say, the necessity of sending up piquets from the advanced-guard, who deny to the enemy all commanding eminences, before the main body and transport move up the defile which those eminences command.

With the British Army in The Holy Land

In some cases the garrisons of heights were surprised and captured before they could get away; more than once the advanced-guard, pushing rapidly up the road, were able to cut off such garrisons as they were coming down the reverse slopes of their hills.

With the British Army in The Holy Land

The infantry, after their last fighting at Gaza, had advanced, in nine days, distances of from 40 to 70 miles, with two severe engagements and continual advanced-guard fighting.

With the British Army in The Holy Land

Here, the fighting was done by the advanced-guard, and during the taking of the heights, subsequent withdrawal being generally unmolested.

With the British Army in The Holy Land

All danger was over now, and before long we caught sight of the advanced-guard of our army.

For The Admiral W.J. Marx

Leaving his advanced-guard and his reserve to check the Prussians on the plain,

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

` ` If your holy scruples can dispense with using the Jew's tablets, for the pen I can find a remedy, '' said the yeoman; and, bending his bow, he aimed his shaft at a wild-goose which was soaring over their heads, the advanced-guard of a phalanx of his tribe, which were winging their way to the distant and solitary fens of Holderness.

Ivanhoe 1892

Yet he was in this respect only the advanced-guard of a not inconsiderable class of men and women who have a special gift for pouring out story after story, containing a great variety of figures, while retaining a certain even level of merit.

Sir Walter Scott Hutton, Richard 1878