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Example sentences for "offensive operations"

  • We have found by experience that the field guns actually engaged in offensive operations, such as Neuve Chapelle, fire about 120 rounds per gun per day.

  • The exhaustion of the troops and their evidently increasing insubordination gave little hope of the success of offensive operations.

  • No skill," says Longstreet, "could have marshalled our troops for offensive operations in time to meet the emergency.

  • My line was long and over broken country, so much so that the troops could not be promptly handled in offensive operations.

  • Your Lordship must have been aware from my previous despatches, that no offensive operations could be carried on, within the enemy's territory, for the destruction of his Naval Establishments, without naval support.

  • Offensive operations of any description, on our part, were not in contemplation; and to every purpose of defensive warfare our means on the Lake were amply competent.

  • Offensive operations are, as a rule, carried on farther from home than defensive operations.

  • In offensive operations, it may be well to concentrate as much fire as possible on the intended point of attack.


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