"advance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Swedish advance resulted in the take-over of the Baltic coastline up to Puck.
- The rapid Swedish advance became known in Poland as Swedish Deluge.
- A skirmish delayed the Swedish advance by two or three hours, thus when night fell the two armies were still separated by about 2-3 kilometres (1-2 miles).
- Clearly enough, the old Catholic general was confident that the boggy terrain on the river banks would impede any Swedish advance badly enough to prevent a crossing.
- But the Swedish advance soon faltered, partly because the infantry had been ordered to withdraw and reorganize.
- But this was the limit of the Swedish advance.
- John II Casimir put up a small army in order to hinder the Swedish advance while seeking assistance from other rulers.
- This forced Christian Frederik to order troops from Høland to head to Eidskog in order to defend against the Swedish advance.
- Not knowing the rate of the Swedish advance and fearing to be cut off from his own lines, Hegermann ordered a retreat back to the entrenchment in the morning hours.
- The fields, being sodden by the nights rain, slowed the Swedish advance in front of the Norwegian guns.
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