"troop" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In many cases those troops are simply going home, or defecting en masse if they contain local contingents.
- Black troops in Leclerc's army defected to their old commanders, and the Governor-General had a mere 2,000 men at hand against the rebels' 10,000.
- Many Dutch troops also defected, repudiating their allegiance to the French.
- His troops soon defected him, sneaking into Tbilisi.
- The White House was surrounded by the military but the troops defected in the face of mass popular demonstrations.
- The ICU claimed over 600 troops have defected since February 2006.
- His troops promptly defected.
- On 29 April 1945, this mission was so successful that 600 troops defected behind Italian lines and withdrew their support from the Germans.
- According to accounts in Soviet newspapers, some posts were overwhelmed within hours by guerrillas, while troops at others defected.
- But his troops were defecting in droves to the dissidents.
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