outpost
outpost
definition
noun
After the attack on the outpost , he kept the battalion moving.
a small military camp or position at some distance from the main force, used especially as a guard against surprise attack.
You do not need to be reminded that it is no longer an English organization with headquarters on the banks of the Thames and outposts scattered about the Empire on which the sun was said never to set.
a remote part of a country or empire.
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There had been nothing in the clearing, so I returned to the military 'outpost' , already knowing what I would find there.
In the north, they razed a military 'outpost' to the ground.
Plus, each base has its own set of resources, and so if you want to keep troops at an 'outpost' or stronghold, you have to continually ferry food to them so they don't starve.
The countdown has begun to a celebration of York's past as a vital 'outpost' of a multi-national empire, with the city's second annual Roman Festival.
Another enemy attack captures an 'outpost' on the approaches to Hill 1220.
The foursome decide to beat it out of London using Frank's taxi, in search of an army 'outpost' broadcasting the lone radio signal.
The Scottish Office, after all, was never intended to do anything other than administer a regional 'outpost' of central government.
It has long been known that Eboracum was an important 'outpost' of the Roman empire.
Through a volatile century of international relations beginning in the 1870s, the coastal area of this land was a military 'outpost' dedicated to the protection of the bay.
To get this gun to the military 'outpost' , we'll need to drive.
In its heyday, Visegrad was a major 'outpost' for the Roman Empire.
An 'outpost' of the Inca empire, thought to have been inhabited by the Chachapoyas, has been discovered in Peru's Amazon jungle.
The land he first visited in 1809-11 was a rugged 'outpost' of the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled the Greeks since the fifteenth century.
Not bad for a city that started out as a military 'outpost' of Auckland.
The restaurant is an 'outpost' of Arts and Crafts-style elegance.
The island becomes an 'outpost' of civilization in the midst of a strange culture.
the community is the last 'outpost' of civilization in the far north
Even at that time, there was a bit of unrest in the area, so an army 'outpost' had been set up on the island with 14 soldiers and two of their wives.
Police said the guerrillas disarmed paramilitary troops manning the 'outpost' after a brief fire-fight.
Once in the Arctic, the eight-man team will begin a thirty-day 300-mile ski trek to the Pole from Resolute Bay, a remote 'outpost' off mainland Canada.
After the attack on the 'outpost' , he kept the battalion moving.
the community is the last 'outpost' of civilization in the far north
The blast occurred about 30 minutes ago near a military 'outpost' and appeared to have come either from a car bomb or a tunnel.
He is a product of the mass movement of subjects within the colonial 'outposts' of the British Empire.
The other entry ports are quaint 'outposts' guarding back roads that cut across lush pasturelands and dairy farms from Canada.
Settlements are often on hills, for they provide the best location for military 'outposts' .
There is talk of a massive fall in profits and a slump in turnover - talk that some 'outposts' of the empire were simply not performing well enough to survive.
The mobile library will replace small 'outposts' which had limited stock often in unsuitable locations.
Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic 'outposts' of Empire that are strung across the globe.
The advance guard fought Spanish 'outposts' at Las Guasimas, and the whole force made a spirited if awkward twin assault on the Spanish fortifications at Kettle and San Juan Hills and El Caney.
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