How To Use Infantry In A Sentence

Proper footgear for the Confederate infantry was in shortest supply.
The land forces are organised into British, Austrian and French divisions, all of which contain recreations of the original infantry, cavalry and artillery regiments that fought during the Napoleonic wars.
As a holder of the Combat Infantrymans Badge, it and my Parachute badge are still on my old field jacket, as is the 173 Abn Bde patch on the right shoulder. Why Life is Now More Complicated
A flanking attack on Antigonus' troops from Spartan light infantry stationed in the Oenus valley was thwarted by an aggressive cavalry attack led by the Achaean general Philopoemen.
Turks had come on with three battalions and a number of mule-mounted infantry and camelry. Seven Pillars of Wisdom

The military's southern command said an infantry brigade has been sent to the site to assist the citizens.
Most units going into Iraq now will go in as motorized infantry, mainly driving Humvees.
Tank battalions, which supported infantry divisions, were at times broken up and spread over a whole division.
The infantryman carried a substantial ammunition pouch, bayonet, water-bottle, and ‘snapsack’ for a day's rations suspended from broad cross-belts, usually made of buff leather and pipeclayed to inconvenient whiteness.
The officers thought that in modern mechanized warfare dismounted infantry would delay the mobile units on which success depended.
But the world of an infantryman is unlike any other, and a soldier’s motivations in battle are hard to judge from the outside looking in. The Road to Haditha
The eighteen guns were back in the cemetery, and a storm of shell began bursting over and among our infantry.
The synergistic effect of brave infantrymen, massed artillery and close air support was why Bastogne held.
Highly skilled Sharpshooter with scoped M 1903 Rifle, effective against all Infantry. Can use camouflage ability.
Perhaps I am a farmer myself — an innocent colonus; and instead of being able to get to church with my family, have to see squadrons of French dragoons thundering upon my barley, and squares of English infantry forming and trampling all over my oats. Roundabout Papers
Chassepot armed infantry easily checked their opponents, but were pounded by artillery and forced to retreat as the Germans found their flanks.
He has commanded airborne infantry units at the company, battalion, brigade and division levels.
Consequently, we now have more major generals than infantry battalions. The Sun
Traces of the modus operandi of the light infantry of old still live on amidst special forces such as the SAS.
In 1969, he applied for Officer Candidate School and earned a commission as an Infantry officer.
The armed forces number 18,500 men divided into an infantry, a navy, an air force, paramilitary forces, border guards, and auxiliary troops of the Interior Ministry.
Ground lines of communications to the infantry companies are the primary mode.
BankMuscat on Infantry Road has swank interiors, but it has a traditional touch about them.
He saw service as an infantry officer in the last war.
The infantry began to deploy at dawn.
The point out that it takes years, not months, to produced a trained, effective infantry soldier and more years to season sergeants and warrant officers.
The brawl led to an attack by about 300 members of the infantry battalion on Madiun Police station and three other substations in the town.
Their vehicles bore the blazon of the Afghan Fifteenth Infantry Division. KARA KUSH
Israeli infantry and armor rolled away from the town of Beit Hanoun and the nearby Jabaliya refugee camp shortly after daybreak, witnesses said.
The infantry have taken/borne the brunt of the missile attacks.
The vulgar always knew what General danced with the lovely Miss A., and how they looked, and what they said to each other; how many jewels Miss A. wore, and the material her dress was made of; they knew who polkaed with the accomplished Miss B., and how like a duchess she bore herself; they had the exact name of the colonel who dashed along so like a knight with the graceful and much-admired Mrs. D., whose husband was abroad serving his country; what gallant captain of dragoons (captains of infantry were looked upon as not what they might be) promenaded so imperiously with the vivacious Miss E.; and what distinguished foreigner sat all night in the corner holding a suspicious and very improper conversation with Miss An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
There is no doubt we have the finest tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in the world.
It was made by the Confederates on an artillery battery and its supporting infantry in the lines of General George McCall.
Eight-eyes glued to the plasterboard screen, we witnessed the power of hope amidst prejudice and unreward as the "indigenous" soldiers (aka the Algerian Infantry Division) arrived in France from the colonies to help free their "motherland". WWII soldiers remembrance
Pardon me should I use the personal pronoun "I" too frequently, as I do not wish to be called egotistical, for I only write of what I saw as an humble private in the rear rank in an infantry regiment, commonly called "webfoot. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
There she found a unit of infantry soldiers who were also without a commanding officer.
Most irritating were the German rocket launchers, which miraculously decimate infantry and armour alike with impunity.
Some of it, what we could call dismounted combat, which some might call hand-to-hand, but that's basically infantry moving through positions on the battlefield. CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2003
Garrisonable by 2 infantry groups, same specs as a normal 'hog, no weapons, but does have ram ability. 1st upgrade: bullbars; increases ram damage considerably. 2nd upgrade: v8 engine, increases max speed. Eurogamer
The three Lowland infantry regiments, whose members have traditionally worn tartan trews for centuries, will be forced to wear kilts when the government's planned new Scottish ‘super-regiment’ is formed next year.
Tell him to have his infantry brigades press forward now with the utmost haste. Man of Honour
Charlie Q. Cutshaw served as a U.S. Army infantry, ordnance, and military intelligence officer.
This bond of sisterhood reflects the bond of brotherhood within US infantry squads where men are broken down into smaller teams.
A typical task organization for route clearance would be two ATGMs with a section of infantry, including the rifle platoon sergeant and forward observer, and a sapper squad in the engineer squad vehicle under the MGS platoon leader.
The duty of the British infantry was now to stave off increasingly heavy attacks from cavalry, infantry and artillery. Times, Sunday Times
There was to be a coastal ‘crust’ that was to consist of a thin screen of infantry deployed along the beaches.
The Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Michael Boyce, said further British forces, including paratroops, infantry and armoured units as well as RAF strike aircraft, could be deployed into the region at short notice.
In the huge battles of 1914-15 Russian infantrymen had to attack unprotected by artillery barrages and often lacking even rifles.
He was a common soldier in Company E of the 25th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, finishing the war as a corporal.
Three of their six divisions are armoured with the rest being mechanised and motorised infantry.
He said he participated in several infantry actions, including hand-to-hand combat in which he and other Gurkhas killed with kukris. Dr Gyi
This operational capability requires commandos to be trained and equipped differently to conventional infantry soldiers.
The redcoats inarched with unloaded muskets for the enemy was still a long way off and there was no sign of the Tippoo Sultan's infantry, nor of his feared cavalry. Sharpe's Tiger
The horsemen rode overland as the infantrymen and artillerists crowded onto railroad cars. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
The crew consists of commander, gunner, driver, and four infantrymen, with the commander normally dismounting with the squad.
Kombat includes all main branches like infantry, tanks, artillery and air force plus other like sappers, reconnaissance, counter-espionage and special elements.
Batteries and small groups of infantry were attacked with machine-gun fire.
There is no such thing as a natural infantry soldier. Times, Sunday Times
It is our tank sections and infantry squads that invariably make contact with hostile forces, not companies or battalions.
This infantry of the janissaries was the first standing army in Europe. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
A British infantry patrol has been ambushed by a group of insurgents. Times, Sunday Times
So while the Japanese infantryman preparing to meet his Soviet counterpart could be in high spirits, his misunderstanding and misconceptions about the Red Army were about to exact a terrible price.
Maithris also looked around in alarm at the clattering of armor and equipage and her ears went back at the sight of a squad of armed infantry making a beeline for us.
In the meantime, the gunners gave close and effective fire support to the infantry and armor troops.
Bruce threw his infantry reserve into the battle, the arrows of the English archers wounded the men-at-arms of their own side, and the remnants of the leading line were tired and disheartened when the final impetus to their rout was given by the historic charge of the "gillies," some thousands of Scottish camp-followers who suddenly emerged from the woods, blowing horns, waving such weapons as they possessed, and holding aloft [v. 03 p. 0355] improvised banners. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
But reviewer was very wrong – at the time that series was set, Fraser was a young non-com in Burma, leading hardbitten North-of-England infantrymen against murderous Japanese troops. VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » George Macdonald Fraser, R. I. P.
With the postwar reorganisation of the us Army in 1866, Watkins received command of the Twentieth Infantry at Richmond, Virginia.
His cavalry would smash through the redoubts opening the way for the infantry to scale the Russians' wooden walls and engage them in hand-to-hand fighting.
By 1916, there was a standardization of support elements in each infantry division.
He says infantry that didn't keep moving and attacking would be accused of cowardice or dereliction of duty.
Laser simulators have also sharply enhanced training realism for tank gunners and infantry small arms.
The MGS platoon, task organized with an infantry squad, a sapper squad, and an MEV, are tasked to standby with the first sergeant for CASEVAC.
The 1943 company had three infantry platoons, each with three rifle squads, a light machine gun squad, and a 60 mm mortar squad.
If you are the medical platoon leader for an infantry or armor battalion task force, you are expected to have what you need to treat patients.
He said the troops are highly trained soldiers, skilled in basic infantry.
Until the armoured regiment had crossed its start line, the armoured infantry would pause momentarily in forward holding areas.
In the meantime Pleasonton's three divisions, "stiffened" -- to use one of Hooker's expressions -- by two brigades of infantry, stole down to the fords and lay there during the night, quietly, and without fires, ready at the first dawn of day to spring upon their too-confident adversaries and give them a rude awakening. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI
Behind them, dressed in review order, marched the infantry of the British Army.
There actually is quite the rounded out selection of units to make as well, ranging from infantry to spearman to archers to legionnaires to praetorians and beyond.
In battle, the artillery's role is to provide fire support for the infantry, cavalry, armor and other units.
They are currently locked in animated detailed discussion with their platoon commander, an experienced infantry captain.
Because the Predator can “sparkle” a target at night — mark it in infrared so that A-10 pilots and grunts on the ground can see it with their night-vision goggles — it opens up a range of options that pilots and infantry never had before. Hunting the Taliban in Las Vegas
The six Scottish infantry regiments currently have a complement of 2,874 soldiers, which is 386 under strength.
The infantry divisions mopped up remaining centres of resistance.
He told me that he was teaching a young Infantry officer to fly on some under-powered, dual-control machine. Marazan
Among them were the “Harlem Hellfighters,” the musicians of the 369th Infantry Regiment, whose bandleader was James Reese Europe. The English Is Coming!
After decades of rejection as a symbol of outdated patriotism, the poilu (French slang for infantryman) has become a cultural icon in recent years, celebrated in films like "Joyeux Noel" (2005) and in books like "Lettres des Poilus," which has sold more than 300,000 copies since publication in 1998. Collectors Vie For World War I Memorabilia
The infantry may be employing the tank as cover just as the tank crew decides to move out or change position.
I watched from between two great boulders, I beheld a Turkish convoy of about six hundred infantry, led by a bimbashi on a gray horse, with a string of pack-mules trailing out behind them, and five loaded donkeys led by soldiers in the midst. Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders
She now has a couple statues in her honor, is included in all Indian history textbooks, met Flashman a couple times, and is so synonymous with being an asskicking chick that when the Indian National Army put together an all-female infantry unit during World War II they had the good sense to name it after her. Reward Excellence, Shun Hypocrisy
Danzig fielded questions on topics ranging from the possibility of exchanging unserviceable utility uniforms for infantrymen to the size of meal portions at the mess halls.
This is what Bill saw in front of his dragoons and jager screen: Prussian infantry supported by Prussian dragoons and cuirassiers. BAR Napoleon Playtest
A legion was a military unit of the Roman army made up of infantry and supporting cavalry numbering three to six thousand men.
In that same year, he joined the Army MI Branch with a detail to the Infantry.
To those who know him, he isn't a novelty act or a weakling who couldn't hack the rigours of the infantry.
The basic British infantryman, like his French and German contemporaries, was issued with his uniform, webbing and a rifle with bayonet.
Other infantry commanders say their men have turned to drugs to blot out their traumatic experiences. The Sun
The Athenian right made a better stand, and though Cleon, who from the first had no thought of fighting, at once fled and was overtaken and slain by a Myrcinian targeteer, his infantry forming in close order upon the hill twice or thrice repulsed the attacks of Clearidas, and did not finally give way until they were surrounded and routed by the missiles of the The History of the Peloponnesian War
Two other companies were deployed as infantry units. Times, Sunday Times
After the war he served as staff commander of an infantry regiment and division and commanded a combined unit.
World War II saw the development of motorized and armored divisions combining infantry, artillery, tanks, and air support.
As operations unfold, the Army has found that protection is needed not just for infantrymen but for every soldier in theatre.
An artillery barrage followed by a mass infantry attack would punch a huge hole in the German lines. The Sun
The note makes clear the restructuring will help end the practice of giving cavalry and infantry officers the top jobs. Times, Sunday Times
His name was often appended to the titles of foreign corps that fought for Britain in the Napoleonic period: amongst them was the Duke of York's Greek Light Infantry which wore the kilt-like fustanella now sported by the evzones.
Acting as the beaters, the infantry platoon is to clear the woods for the enemy eyes forward.
He also says the bombardment lasted for about 90 minutes, but has the infantry attack beginning while the artillery barrage is still going on.
With the support of his commander, a battalion master marksman would improve marksmanship proficiency in the light infantry battalions.
An armor or infantry task force traditionally performs these roles with engineers attached as the reduction element.
The division's fighting elements were 8,000 Philippine Scouts, officered by Americans, a US infantry regiment some 2,000 strong, and a regiment of artillery.
Portable automatic weapons had become critical in infantry fighting. Times, Sunday Times
We have less infantry and armour than the enemy.
What's more, its large cabin also makes it an effective troop transport, suitable for para-dropping infantry squads deep behind enemy lines.
For the most part these contingents have been based on a core component of light infantry.
The force now included around a battalion of infantry as well as a squadron of military engineers.
Tanks attacked first with infantry literally in tow as many tanks pulled along infantry soldiers on sledges.
File was the main battle formation for infantry, its formation in depth increased the troops' penetrative power yet claimed too many lives.
'biochip' is installed within each 'Genetic Infantryman' or 'GI' from birth that then records their personalities and training until their death. Undefined
I still believe today's infantrymen could learn from the WWI doughboys.
The first stage of his plan was to airlift nearly three battalions of infantry to a crow's-foot of seven intersecting valleys, twelve miles south of Bong Son. Chickenhawk
First and foremost, assault pioneers are infantrymen.
Ten thousand men would fully cover the artillery and cavalry and perhaps considerably overgo it -- (The return for the 31st of May, just four days before the commencement of the movement, shows the infantry to have been 54,356 for duty, cavalry 9,536, and artillery 4,460, total 68,352. This return was not accessible to me when the within was written.)--150 guns would cover all of our artillery, and they consisted of field pieces, the most of which had been captured from the enemy. Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States,
One immutable truth of urban warfare is that it requires a lot of infantry.
The infantry of both armies in the Civil War for the first time used muzzle-loading rifled muskets, while cavalry with breech-loading carbines fought dismounted.
He also buried the bodies of two officers and collected numerous identity discs from dead infantrymen. Times, Sunday Times
A brigade of infantry marching in column of fours, without its baggage, would take about 15 minutes to cross a bridge (moving at 2+mph).
A battalion of battle-tested infantrymen walked single file along either side of the road towards the enemy.
This was a cremaillere infantry breastwork of strong profile, with heavy enclosed redoubts at distances of 700 and 800 yards, having defensive relations to each other. Memoirs of the War of Secession
Tanks are used in an offensive to support motorized infantry; they can also be used independently.
Kombat includes all main branches like infantry, tanks, artillery and air force plus other like sappers, reconnaissance, counter-espionage and special elements.
Before being relived by the 94th Infantry later that day, the 5th Ranger Battalion was shelled one more time with some casualties taken.
General Jackson therefore has no lack of experience of infantry soldiering, having been a platoon commander, adjutant, company commander and commanding officer in infantry battalions.
He then attacked the isolated defense with infantry and armor from different axes.
It will detail which four infantry battalions will be cut.
Weaponry consisted of battleaxes, thrusting spears and daggers for the infantry, while the leaders in their battlewagons carry sheafs of javelins.
The use of machine guns and heavy artillery consumed infantry offensives like bundles of straw in a furnace.
The terrible news of the death of Corporal James Jim Hayward Arnal, an infanteer serving with the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group, is another cruel blow to all of us, wherever we may be. Archive 2008-07-01
Israel would then deploy around 30,000 paratroopers, infantry and armoured brigades.
This excludes women from employment in armour, artillery, infantry and combat engineer units/positions.
When his infantry began to become attrited during their attacks, he pulled them back to allow his mortars and heavy machine guns to weaken the French resolve. THE NEWS BLOG
Besides the four brigades of Khedivial infantry, together with artillery, cavalry, and camelry, and minor details, the Egyptian army also included a large transport column of some 2800 camels and about as many men. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
Tank units and subunits attached to rifle divisions and regiments were used for direct support of infantry.
The call was made to lead with tanks and mechanized infantry, thus allowing the main firepower to be at the front.
Inside the bombed-out palace, troops from Attack Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry, rifled through documents and inventoried the building.
When the war in Korea started two weeks later, I re-enlisted for Infantry OCS and was commissioned.
An artillery barrage followed by a mass infantry attack would punch a huge hole in the German lines. The Sun
Bruce was awarded a Purple Heart for his wounds received at the hands of the enemy, as well as a Navy unit Commendation for his assistance in fortifying the infantry position where he was wounded. Media Coverage JUNE 2009
The lack of organic or attached infantry makes it difficult for a troop to hold ground or defend against an enemy advance.
This was different from its usual role of supporting a motorised infantry battalion.
The French have 3 battalions of infantry plus Bill's 2 btns, 40 dragoons, 32 cuirassiers, 12 chasseurs and four 8-pounders with crew. June Painting Results
The soldiers formed the celebrated corps of the janissaries (Turkish Yeni cheri, ‘new troops’) These infantrymen took to the use of handguns in the form of arquebuses and, later, the more manageable early forms of musket.
The Cavalry commander had the armoured cars with him and was later reinforced by 1,500 infantry soldiers who were sent forward in Ford cars.
The usual solution is to send in infantry to mop up any remaining opposition.
Ignoring pain and loss of blood, he continued to fight his tank in support of the infantry until the enemy had again been dispersed. Times, Sunday Times
The infantry have for their defense a breast plate of iron, and for offense a lance nine armlengths long, which they call a pike, and a sword at their side, rather round in the point than sharp. The Art of War
Davout deployed all of his artillery on the French side of the river which was not fordable, so it could only be crossed at one of the two bridges spanning the water so that it could enfilade any Russian attack on the long ridge that was perpendicular to the Russian cavalry, thereby screening the advancing French infantry. Archive 2009-05-01
Then it becomes our duty to screen not only the advance of our own troops and to secure to our Infantry the advantages of being able to advance undisturbed, but the climax of all these duties will be reached _in the far more important duty_, in the now indispensable task, of securing the _widest possible sphere of intelligence_. Cavalry in Future Wars
He and his family lived in a brickyard that had a field kitchen used by the troops of the 29th Infantry Division.
An Indian infantry regiment approached for the march-past. Burmese Days
The infantry branch would be responsible for training light infantrymen.
The job was not done exclusively by infantrymen: Rangers, engineers, artillerymen and staff soldiers all contributed.
Nimble German infantry mortar squads inflicted 70% of Allied casualties during the Battle of Normandy.
Pisander and his colleagues on their voyage alongshore abolished, as had been determined, the democracies in the cities, and also took some heavy infantry from certain places as their allies, and so came to Athens. The History of the Peloponnesian War
An armoured personnel carrier and an infantry fighting vehicle rumbled forward past the checkpoint. Times, Sunday Times
Hastily formed forces like the U. S. Army's Task Force Smith resisted valiantly, but the infantry was overrun in desperate rearguard battles.
There, military police operated effectively side by side with infantry and armored troops in peace-enforcing efforts.
The third Infantry brigade with its Mountain battery and one or two troops of Cavalry formed the rear guard. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
Maneuvering and the use of machine guns in fighting made infantry files pressing along the front inefficient.
His bungalow was a pretty big establishment, you see, just off the east end of the Mall, near the British infantry lines, with about thirty servants, and since there was no proper mem-sahib, and his khansamah* (* Butler.) was almost senile, there was no order about the place at all. Fiancée
The roar of the conflict along the river had become terrific; to the east a New Jersey battery, obscured in flame-shot clouds, was retiring by its twenty-eight-foot prolonges, using cannister; the remains of a New Hampshire infantry regiment supported the retreat; between the two batteries Claymore in his shirt, sleeves rolled to his elbows, heavy revolver swinging in his blackened fist, was giving a tongue lashing to the stream of fugitives from the river woods. Ailsa Paige
Leg infantry has to carry every item they will need, and that means only the barest of essentials.
He is a moving target, who also exhibits what the American military call a ‘grunt’ mentality, and a grunt is an infantryman in the finest sense of the word.
It has tested each of you as an individual and, more importantly, as part of a war fighting infantry section.
Right at the back were lines of rearguard infantrymen.
You barely know where you are, much less where your three platoons and associated infantry squads are located.
Times when the enemy ‘entered by force’ with infantry or cavalry units have passed.
We have been encountered by fierce infantry resistance, yet our superior weaponry and armor has allowed us to crush this resistance.
Armored divisions have more tanks than mechanized infantry divisions.
These forces have some armor but rely on dismounted or motorized infantry for the bulk of their combat power.
In 1930 Weygand launched a programme to motorize seven infantry divisions and he initiated the creation of an armoured division in the cavalry in October 1933.
The disappearance of the classical front line required that artillery batteries fight as infantry in the defense of their guns.
The usual solution is to send in infantry to mop up any remaining opposition.
The formations were closer now, and not all of them were retreating: we passed artillery teams who were unlimbering and siting their guns, and regiments of infantry waiting in the humid heat, their faces turned towards the distant hills, their 'mks stretched out in good order across the plain. Fiancée
This results in wasted effort as infantry battalion scouts conduct time-consuming reconnaissance of areas and routes already reconnoitered by recce troops.
The infantry made a drive deep into enemy territory.
What was true was that to be a successful fighter pilot required different qualities from those that made a good infantry officer. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
This has always been an important training issue for infantry troops.
His public service began as an Infantry officer in the Army.
The local Reserve Defence Forces drawn from D-Company of the 10th infantry battalion, got the eagerly awaited parade off to a punctual start on the stoke of 2.30 pm.
I also compare between women who serve in an artillery battery and women who serve in an infantry company.
In the American and British armies deserters were almost always infantrymen.
It makes great sense to re-role some normal infantry battalions into this role and I hope it happens.
In the Plains Indians Wars, infantry and mounted troops were quartered in wooden and adobe forts dotting the West and Southwest.
Probably no historical image would be harder to dislodge from the collective memory than that of the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached general, his tactics derived from long-ago cavalry maneuvers, sitting in a château headquarters well behind the lines as he orders waves of infantry across minefields and through barbed wire, forcing them like the Light Brigade itself “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” and into the waiting German machine guns. The Pity of War
The transport corps is ancillary to the infantry.
A unit of action may vary from a nine-man infantry section through to a 3500-person brigade.
This small force consisted of a troop of dragoons in front, an advance guard of light infantry, a few artillery batteries, and several infantry regiments in the rear.
The grenadier company of a line infantry battalion was paraded on the right of the line, the place of honour accorded to its status.
Each first-class cavalryman, three or four second-class cavalrymen and sixteen infantrymen had a slave or paid servant to look after baggage and perform menial chores.

How To Use Infantry In A Sentence

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