Company I was able to advance, but Company K ran into a defensive position of five pillboxes along a stream about seventy-five yards from the beach.
The battalion therefore moved out at 0730 to Colasian where it set up a defensive position.
Unable to retreat westward, the enemy moved northward down a stream bed and set up a defensive position 500 yards west of the road and opposite the center of the advancing column of the 3d Battalion.
Fortunately the battalion immediately went into a defensive position, for at 1715 a sharp enemy assault had to be repulsed with machine gun and rifle fire.
It served to show that the Boer force was a compact body some six or seven thousand strong, which withdrew in a leisurely fashion, and took up a defensive position at Houtnek, some miles further on.
Finding no way through, the force took up a defensive position, part of them in a farm and part on a kopje which overlooked it.
General Whiting, with some force, was holding a defensive position at Petersburg.
After spending a day on General Magruder's defensive line, he returned to Richmond, and recommended the abandonment of the Peninsula, and that we should take a defensive position nearer to Richmond.
But musketry replied to musketry, and finding the road blocked by a line of riflemen, Fremont ordered his troops to occupy a defensive position on Cedar Creek.
As Tromp's chief business was to save his convoy and as the English force was now united, he took a defensive position.
Instead, he took up a defensive position in the Gulf of Arta, exactly where Antony had collected his fleet before the battle of Actium.
On seeing Phormio advance to the attack, the Corinthian drew up his squadron in a defensive position, ranging his vessels in concentric circles, bows outward, like the spokes of a wheel.
Suppose that it is actually your business to construct a defensive position.
In case the enemy is encountered the flank guard drives him off if practicable or takes up a defensive position, protecting the march of the main column, and preventing the enemy from disturbing the latter's march.
However, it may be said that, in general, a defensive position should be near the bottom of the slope.
As the camp was within long-range artillery fire from Impati Mountain, the brigade moved off at a moment's notice to the south and took up a defensive position.
He took up a defensive position, placing the cavalry in a kraal and the mounted infantry on some rising ground near.
It was somewhat trying to think that precious time was being wasted, while the burghers were preparing a defensive position.
Indeed, an army that is occupying a defensive position may, on the approach of the enemy, advance to meet him while on the march.
The parallel order with a crotchet on the flank, is sometimes used in a defensive position, and also in the offensive with the crotchet thrown forward.
This battalion will take up a defensive position in the nearly completed line of trenches, Sand Road-Target Range Fence, and as rapidly as possible complete the trench system in the following order of work: a.
If an attack occurs during the march through the boyaux, to or from relief, the company affected occupies the nearest defensive position and at once notifies its battalion commander.
They took up a defensive position, and stood to await attack, when their business was to force their way onwards.
Whether Villars would have attacked, if the allies had taken up a defensive position to cover the siege, may perhaps be doubted.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defensive position" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
