Examples of 'rearguard' in a sentence
Meaning of "rearguard"
rearguard (noun) - a military unit that protects the rear of a group or formation
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- The rearmost part of a force, especially a detachment of troops that protect the rear of a retreating force.
- The defence, collectively the defenders.
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Hannibal was in the rearguard with the elephants.
The rearguard could not be brought off.
We are clear and in position for rearguard picket.
A small rearguard protected the baggage train.
I thanks you for your rearguard action.
Watch the rearguard of the overtaken doors.
The opponents are fighting a rearguard action.
Take the rearguard with the sergeant.
You can call the rearguard.
There is still a rearguard of men who are opposed to this.
I will rendezvous with the rearguard.
With desperate rearguard battle along the route.
I will go meet up with the rearguard.
The focus is on rearguard and defense.
The rearguard should be here by daybreak.
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Roland was killed and the rearguard scattered.
But the rearguard men were soon to see action.
The light cavalry was principally with the rearguard.
The strong rearguard had stopped the pursuit.
The insurgents are concentrated in the rearguard at this height.
Your rearguard action is as foolish as it is unavailing.
You are being specially moved to rearguard.
The gallant rearguard had to be abandoned.
The lmmortals have wiped out your rearguard.
Assign a rearguard and the rest of you come with me.
I am the vanguard of men and the rearguard of men.
Left the rearguard division.
I thought you were with the rearguard.
The next morning the rearguard crossed the brigade.
The partisans of intransigence are already fighting a rearguard action.
To act as a rearguard to gain time.
Durruti got some leather jackets from the rearguard.
The rearguard refuses to accept it.
I led a valiant rearguard action.
Their rearguard need rebuilding.
The bodies of the brothers shall be taken by rearguard units.
Men in the rearguard squads died buying us the time we needed.
This could represent the arrival of reinforcements or the rearguard.
Kouma instead opted to act as a rearguard to cover the infantry.
His officers will then take command of the rearguard.
It would be a rearguard battle.
Lena has a great magic power and specialized to be rearguard.
It is here that the rearguard of the conservationists is exerted to the full.
Their vanguard and rearguard.
The rearguard managed to rise to the occasion and drive them away.
Patrick constituted the rearguard.
Plain that with the grim rearguard behind us we outnumbered the men of.
The bodies of the brothers shall be taken care of by rearguard units.
He will take command of the rearguard under the rank of captain.
They can count on me and on my colleagues to denounce their rearguard views.
