"square" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Historically an infantry square is a combat formation an infantry unit forms in close order usually when threatened with cavalry attack.
- The infantry square was used as protection from cavalry charges.
- Another formation that saw use was the infantry square.
- Gérard was captured and Bernadotte had to take shelter inside of an infantry square.
- The charge broke the formed infantry square, a remarkable feat.
- His second thought was that he had left his pistols inside the infantry square.
- He defeated the Mamluk cavalry using a larger version of the common infantry square, with cannons and supplies safely on the inside.
- In the morning, they catch up to him, but he is able to outrun them and gains the protection of a French infantry square.
- Cavalry cannot break a well-formed infantry square.
- Pully's troopers tried to break the Austrian infantry squares but they were unsuccessful.
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