"frontier" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The British regulars were not accustomed to frontier warfare and so Ranger companies were developed.
- This led to sustained frontier warfare (the 'Black War'), and in some districts farmers were forced to fortify their houses.
- Indian service soon brought him experience of frontier warfare.
- Organised or disorganised however, a pattern of frontier warfare emerged with Aboriginal resistance beginning in the 18th century and continuing into the early 20th century.
- All, however, were men on whom he could depend - men well used to frontier warfare.
- The brutal frontier warfare led to calls in the Continental Congress for the army to take an active role.
- Four more years of frontier warfare ensued.
- As typical of frontier warfare, many additional conflicts were unrecorded.
- There was no fighting over the winter months, which was common in frontier warfare.
- They were ritually scalped and their bodies mutilated as was common in frontier warfare.
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