Examples of using "Bataillon" in a sentence and their english translations:
a new battalion of volunteers as their drill instructor.
The basic tactical unit of infantry was the battalion.
One exception was the Sacred Band, who made a brave last stand.
battalion, and led it with success against the Austrians on the Piedmontese front.
This was a more flexible formation that allowed the battalion to advance quickly, though it
the battalion became casualties, though Soult’s own conduct was praised.
Our example here has 605 men, a typical strength for a battalion on campaign.
who quit his job as a dyer’s apprentice to join the local volunteer battalion in 1792.
In 1791 Davout joined a local volunteer battalion, and was elected its deputy commander.
Transferred to Masséna’s division, he led his battalion with distinction at Arcole and
When the French Revolution began, he re-enlisted in a local volunteer battalion.
infantry battalion at the Siege of Toulon. He led a daring night assault on British defences
In 1793 he was elected to lead a volunteer battalion, and at the Siege of Toulon, distinguished
And now I neared the gates, and thought my flight / achieved, when suddenly a noise we hear / of trampling feet, and, peering through the night, / my father cries, "Fly, son, the Greeks are near; / they come, I see the glint of shield and spear, / fierce foes in front and flashing arms behind."
- Then fury spurred their courage, and behold, / As ravening wolves, when darkness hides the day, / Stung with mad fire of famine uncontrolled, / Prowl from their dens, and leave the whelps to stay, / With jaws athirst and gaping for the prey. / So to sure death, amid the darkness there, / Where swords, and spears, and foemen bar the way, / Into the centre of the town we fare. / Night with her shadowy cone broods o'er the vaulted air.
- Then, like wolves ravening in a black fog, whom mad malice of hunger hath driven blindly forth, and their cubs left behind await with throats unslaked; through the weapons of the enemy we march to certain death, and hold our way straight into the town. Night's sheltering shadow flutters dark around us.