"retreat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The letter, written a couple years after the battle, cautions the new Grand Master to look out for false retreats of the kind that were used in the Great Battle.
- Stephen Turnbull asserted that the Lithuanian retreat did not quite fit the tried formula of a false retreat.
- He creates a false retreat to lure Vercingetorix into battle, but this fails and the Romans are defeated by Vercingetorix.
- Another widely used tactic was to make a false retreat and then suddenly attack the enemy - breaking the lines when in pursuit.
- Muslim sources at the time, however, put Saladin in the "baggage of the center" with orders to lure the enemy into a trap by staging a false retreat.
- They outnumber us; they may try a false retreat, to draw us out, so they can fall on us in the open.
- Basic tactics were used, such as breaching using heavy fighters (who were usually held in reserve), encircling, false retreat and others; but as a rule, tight wall formation never broke.
- This he did as soon as his long-range sensors assured him that the Dog fighters were indeed gone rather than simply staging a false retreat to try and lure him in.
- Then we will practise the false retreat again.
- He could see the purpose of the false retreat.
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