The United States, which had an army of a million battle-hardened troops, demanded that the French withdraw or prepare for war.

It's not only weapons, but also battle-hardened troops.

The ordenanqa was an enthusiastic but unskilled army of volunteers raised to defend the homeland and the battle-hardened French troops were tearing them to shreds.

He still had a hard core of battle-hardened troops and panzers.

Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners have confirmed that the precise bombing from planes they often could not hear or see broke the will of battle-hardened troops.

Military briefers painted a dire picture of defenses: half a million mines, ditches filled with burning oil, battle-hardened troops, etc.

Nonetheless, battle-hardened Burmese troops defeated the first two invasions of 1765 and 1766 at the border.

They have about 5,000 battle-hardened troops in and around the town, against Sayed Jaffar's newly assembled force, estimated at 700.

In that case we cannot remain here to be attacked by an overwhelming fleet of war-dhows crammed with battle-hardened Omani troops.

But there were others, whose members were culled from the most experienced and battle-hardened troops.