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Sentences ending with flank

The second order was that Poniatowski, moving to the village through the wood, should turn the Russian left flank. [2]
Then he ordered us to march round the ditch and attack the enemy on the flank. [10]
Rostov was therefore unpleasantly struck by the presence of French officers in Boris' lodging, dressed in uniforms he had been accustomed to see from quite a different point of view from the outposts of the flank. [2]
Prince Bagration ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to reinforce the right flank. [2]
When we got to the gunboats, there was Brice's company on the flank. [9]
Venters leaned forward to put his hand on Wrangle's neck, then backward to put it on his flank. [13]
After going through the wood for about a mile and a half they came out on a glade where troops of Tuchkov's corps were stationed to defend the left flank. [2]
Byng has turned the tide by turning the Boer flank. [11]
Sheridan, with his own cavalry, the Fifth Corps, and part of the Second, is coming in from the west on the enemy's flank. [7]
At the moment of my arrival the head 'ostler was rubbing down the stallion's flank. [9]

Sentences containing flank two or more times

The cause of the confusion was that while the Austrian cavalry was moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all ordered to turn back to the right. [2]
As the Tsar rode up to one flank of the battalions, which presented arms, another group of horsemen galloped up to the opposite flank, and at the head of them Rostov recognized Napoleon. [2]
You talk about our position, the left flank weak and the right flank too extended," he went on. [2]

More example sentences with the word flank in them

Bagration had sent Zherkov to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat immediately. [2]
Tain's out of your beat--away on the right flank there. [11]
Alexander and Napoleon, with the long train of their suites, approached the right flank of the Preobrazhensk battalion and came straight up to the crowd standing there. [2]
In a little while, if they were not surprised, they would complete a movement, take a hill, turn the flank of the foe, and, if designed supports came up, have the Boers at a deadly disadvantage. [11]
The two commanders were much exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. [2]
Our right flank was posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the French position. [2]
One last rush was made, and failed, and then the Staats Artillery came up on the left flank, and the game was up. [5]
The Emperors rode up to the flank, and the trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. [2]
If he comes towards the upper Potomac, follow on his flank, and on the inside track, shortening your lines while he lengthens his. [7]
It was proposed to make a flank march to the left, cut off the Vice-King (Murat) and capture him. [2]
In any of these eventualities the flank march that brought salvation might have proved disastrous. [2]
On the left their Indians and burghers overlapped our second line, where Townsend with Amherst's and the Light Infantry, and Colonel Burton with the Royal Americans and Light Infantry, guarded our flank, prepared to meet Bougainville. [11]
The news that the Russians were attacking the left flank of the French army aroused that horror in Napoleon. [2]
The troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this irresolution communicated itself to the men. [2]
The cannonade on the left flank will begin as soon as the guns of the right wing are heard. [2]
This disposition on the left flank increased Pierre's doubt of his own capacity to understand military matters. [2]
The command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of the regiment Kutuzov had reviewed at Braunau and in which Dolokhov was serving as a private. [2]
In the center the French had not got beyond Borodino, and on their left flank Uvarov's cavalry had put the French to flight. [2]
In that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank counterattack. [2]
Our fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the French who had nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. [2]
So it happened that throughout the whole battle the Russians opposed the entire French army launched against our left flank with but half as many men. [2]
Our eyes caught sight of a form in the blockhouse port, there was an instant when a candle flung its rays upon a cannon's flank, and Tom's rifle spat a rod of flame. [9]
On the other side of the crag was a valley also; but it was lonely and untenanted; and at one flank of The Stone were serried legions of trees. [11]
Now, Hawkins, the procession's ready; mark time, by the left flank, forward-march! [5]
Our course was plain, our minds were made up: we would flank the farmhouse --go out around. [5]
And the hussars, passing along the line of troops on the left flank of our position, halted behind our Uhlans who were in the front line. [2]
If they attack our center we, having the center battery on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and retreat to the dip by echelons. [2]
He had been on the left flank of the main body, and his battery had suddenly faced a terrific fire from concealed riflemen who had not hitherto shown life at this point. [11]
After the loss of the Shevardino Redoubt, we found ourselves on the morning of the twenty-fifth without a position for our left flank, and were forced to bend it back and hastily entrench it where it chanced to be. [2]
But the command of the extreme left flank had been assigned to the commander of the Pavlograd regiment in which Rostov was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. [2]
The three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: Kutuzov's fighting army (with the Pavlograds on the right flank of the front); those recently arrived from Russia, both Guards and regiments of the line; and the Austrian troops. [2]
The position we occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on the right they will expose a flank to me. [2]
When he chose, none could be more insinuating or turn the flank of a proper argument by more adroit suggestion. [11]
That flank march might not only have failed to give any advantage to the Russian army, but might in other circumstances have led to its destruction. [2]
Having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. [2]
Our right flank is over there"--he pointed sharply to the right, far away in the broken ground--"That's where the Moskva River is, and we have thrown up three redoubts there, very strong ones. [2]
Even foreign historians, including the French, acknowledge the genius of the Russian commanders when they speak of that flank march. [2]
Rostov patted the horse's neck and then his flank, and lingered for a moment. [2]
What so affected him was Kutuzov's calm and quiet comment on the advantage or disadvantage of Bennigsen's proposal to move troops by night from the right to the left flank to attack the French right wing. [2]
She looked at him several times anxiously, and passed backwards and forwards behind him as a hen moves upon the flank of her brood. [11]
The roses she held dropped on the gravel, and she put out her hand against his horse's flank. [9]
Following the wounded hare he made his way far into the forest and came upon the left flank of Murat's army, encamped there without any precautions. [2]
But it is hard to understand why military writers, and following them others, consider this flank march to be the profound conception of some one man who saved Russia and destroyed Napoleon. [2]
All his predispositions had been suddenly brought to check, his habits turned upon the flank and routed, his mental postures flung into confusion. [11]
This, with the great rain of yesterday and last night securing your right flank, I think puts a new face upon your case; but you must be the judge. [7]
We are just going to the left flank. [2]
Dolokhov had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with his captain. [2]
Wolzogen had come from Barclay de Tolly to report on the progress of affairs on the left flank. [2]
In vain our foes tried to get between our right flank and the river; Otway's Regiment, thrown out, defeated that. [11]
On their left flank, nearest to Bagration, marched a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy expression--the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. [2]
Yesterday our left flank was there at Shevardino, you see, where the oak is, but now we have withdrawn our left wing--now it is over there, do you see that village and the smoke? [2]
In the second file from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. [2]
Dawn was not far away, and before daybreak he must have the hill which was the key to the whole position, which commanded the left flank of the foe. [11]
Here, at the extreme left flank, Bennigsen talked a great deal and with much heat, and, as it seemed to Pierre, gave orders of great military importance. [2]
Without stopping to examine this edifice, I executed a flank movement to the right and crossed the bridge over the Findelenbach, after first testing its strength. [5]
The attack directed by Napoleon against our left flank had been several times repulsed. [2]
Clear to the boulevard the French were washed in this enveloping inundation; and there, cornered in an angle formed by the flank of the boulevard and the slope of the causeway, they bravely fought a hopeless fight, and sank down one by one. [5]
There was a battle forward on the left flank of the Boer Army. [11]
One had a bad sore on his flank, and was lame. [9]
If our borders are invaded, it is only as the spur that is driven into the courser's flank to rouse his slumbering mettle. [6]

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