"elite" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- On seeing Páez's men move, the Spanish commander, Miguel de la Torre, orders one of his elite battalions, the Burgos, to reinforce and defend the north flank.
- He was commander of the Breymann Grenadiers, an elite battalion hired into British service, and served under the command of John Burgoyne.
- The Peltast corps was probably 5,000 strong, with an elite battalion of 2,000 called the Agema.
- An elite battalion of paratroopers was reduced to a company size and was the only operational force in the entire military, the official said.
- But villagers nearby said an elite battalion of government forces had carried out the massacre the previous month.
- Last year, while documenting an elite battalion of six American soldiers on the front line in Afghanistan, he stepped on a landmine.
- Looks like Lehmann's put in an elite battalion.
- By March, Canada had its elite battalion, which returned to England to join the 6th Airborne Division as a unit of the Britain's 3rd Parachute Brigade.
- Vann hoped to trap the Viet Cong inside the hamlets by blocking their retreat routes on all sides, and annihilate them using an elite battalion of South Vietnamese paratroopers.
- The Truth Commission found that the elite battalion had carried out a massacre.
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