"retreat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A favorite tactic when confronted by a strong enemy cavalry force involved a feigned retreat and ambush.
- Flanking and/or feigned retreat if the enemy could not be handled easily was one of the most practiced techniques.
- The Mongols very commonly practiced the feigned retreat, perhaps the most difficult battlefield tactic to execute.
- The Franks may have gained a tactical advantage by using the "device of a feigned retreat."
- Once ashore however the Spanish were met initially with light resistance mainly because a feigned retreat by the forces from Algiers.
- I have seen the crocodiles repeat this manoeuvre constantly; they deceive by a feigned retreat, and then attack from below.
- Thus there was value in a feigned retreat.
- It's a feigned retreat to draw 'em after us.
- "Milord," he tried once more, "what if it's a feigned retreat?"
- The tactic could also be used during feigned retreat, with devastating effect.
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