When the Chinese Communists gained control of the northwestern frontier in 1949, they felt special measures were required to hold it.

He and Call had had to abandon the border to banditry; answering raids on the northwestern frontier took all their time and resources.

Those spirits had led him to join the Queen's Army as a subaltern on the northwestern frontier of India.

A militia is formed on the basis of a proposal by Benjamin Franklin, and the governor asks him to take command of the northwestern frontier.

On the northwestern Alpine frontier, a new state had appeared on the scene, destined to lead the movement to a united Italy.

He first served on the northwestern frontier.

Once, while traveling through the northwestern frontier of Cambodia, I enjoyed four days of such celebrity status in a village called Opasat.

In 1848, the three companies returned to the United States and were stationed at various points on the northwestern frontier.

I'll plant a couple of ambiguous hints about the Atans massing up near their northwestern frontier.

He was appointed as 2nd Lieutenant to the 6th Infantry in which he served two years on the northwestern frontier.