Other national contingents occupied the centre, numerous and picked for their valour.

Some men in the Irish battalion, one of nine national contingents in the force, have done as many as 14 six-month tours here since 1978.

More troops were added to national contingents.

The national contingents from Brunswick and Hesse would return to their homelands.

United Nations officials said that in any case no national contingents were immediately ready for such an operation.

They are there as members of national contingents, but they are serving a wider interest - Europe's.

The occupiers withdrew from the city on 12 October, with the national contingents heading in separate directions.

'Calls for a solution to the problem of the so-called caveats which impede a proper cooperation among the different national contingents in the country.'

It was the first time the Canadians had gone into battle as a national contingent.

When the British government asked for more troops from Australia in early 1902, the Australian government obliged with a national contingent.