rearguard
നടിമാത്രമല്ല
definition
noun
It is commonly used by troops intending to hold a position against an advancing enemy, by rearguards covering a retreat, or by advanced parties while they wait to be reinforced.
the soldiers positioned at the rear of a body of troops, especially those protecting an army when it is in retreat.
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The battalion later acted as 'rearguard' to their brigade as it gradually withdrew from Norway.
From his Taipei retreat, Chiang Kai-shek continued his 'rearguard' fight in that civil war, leading China to perpetuate the hostilities which continue to this day.
When the army advances on the enemy, these men by custom form the vanguard and on their return the 'rearguard' .
Too few troops on the ground going in left the heartland unconquered and 'rearguard' supply troops vulnerable to attack.
The guardsman hit hard and lay still, and shouts of alarm and terror mixed with fresh cries of pain as arrows pelted his straggling 'rearguard' .
However, on August 26th, a British 'rearguard' guarding the retreat of the bulk of the BEF did sustain 8,000 casualties at the Battle of Le Chateau.
Our line of defence straddled a major road from which the bulk of our unit was withdrawn the night before the British attack and my platoon was left behind as the 'rearguard' with the instruction to fight to the last bullet.
The success of the long retreat and the 'rearguard' engagements in 1944 and 1945 came despite, rather than because of, Hitler.
The drama-documentary series tells the story of the Army's 'rearguard' who valiantly held a last line of defence, allowing hundreds of thousands of others time to escape.
There's been an ongoing 'rearguard' action from that group, " he said.
Rambling and canoeing organisations have now launched a fierce 'rearguard' fight against British Waterways, which they say is guilty of scaremongering, and are arguing the case for a Scottish Waterways organisation to be set up.
The East was bringing the battle to the South, leaving only a few soldiers as a 'rearguard' at the palace.
It retreated and maintained a hold over 'rearguard' elements.
The commander finally withdrew his 'rearguard' and moved the last few soldiers across the abandoned camp.
Mercifully, he had played no role in the shooting, serving as the 'rearguard' of the second unit.
he ran hard at the Scottish 'rearguard'
Right at the back were lines of 'rearguard' infantrymen.
Roland becomes the commander of the 'rearguard' , appointed to the post at the instance of the traitor Ganelon, who is in league with the Saracen king Marsile.
Hastily formed forces like the U. S. Army's Task Force Smith resisted valiantly, but the infantry was overrun in desperate 'rearguard' battles.
Smith's struggle against secularism can be viewed as a lifetime of 'rearguard' actions.
the academies acted as powerful guardians of the 'rearguard'
At the pass of Rencesvals, the twenty thousand Christians of the 'rearguard' are ambushed by a vastly superior force, numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
As the inquiry went on, the Metropolitan Police fought a 'rearguard' attempt to stop ‘institutionalised racism’ from being put into the report.
The Communist troops were already moving out when their 'rearguard' was attacked by Guomindang troops and defeated with heavy casualties.
So now a 'rearguard' battle is being fought to avoid this particular tide of history.
the firing from our 'rearguard' had stopped
He is ready to give offense to both the vanguard and the 'rearguard' of the modem Roman Church-and to many in the middle.
I hope to convince readers that this is not simply a nostalgic reactionary's 'rearguard' defence of a bygone era but a highly desirable way of meeting the needs of many patients today.
Okulicki and Pelczynski thought the plan for Warsaw's underground fighters to wait until the Wehrmacht evacuated the city, and then harass its 'rearguard' , was too passive.
Hickey played down the attacks, dismissing those involved as being ‘a handful of 'rearguards' attempting to maintain a degree of political relevance.’
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