"defend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In early 1941 the 6th Division and I Corps headquarters took part in the ill-fated Allied expedition to defend Greece from a German invasion.
- He had won the DSO in 1941 while defending Greece.
- However, at the crucial moment, Winston Churchill ordered that the advance be stopped and troops dispatched to defend Greece.
- The Athenians had made dozens of warships known as Trireme to defend Greece.
- Defending Greece as a safe and secure country, a government spokesman, Dimitris Reppas, said the report "presented a false picture of Greece."
- On 9 February 1941, as the British advance reached El Agheila, Churchill ordered that it be stopped and troops be dispatched to defend Greece.
- In January 1941, the squadron joined Allied forces defending Greece, providing air cover and offensive support over Albania.
- In addition the British Western Desert Force had been weakened by the transfer of four divisions to defend Greece.
- As the advance reached Al Argheila, Churchill ordered that it be stopped and that troops be dispatched to defend Greece.
- To prosecute the war and then to defend Greece from further Persian attack, Athens founded the Delian League in 477 BC.
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