The waves of enemy infantry succeed in outflanking our first line and swamping an entire battalion.
He continues to make frontal attacks on them and at the same time attempts his usual manœuvre of envelopment, on the one side debouching in La Caillette Wood, and on the other side outflanking us in the village of Damloup.
But the Germans extended and reinforced their line for a similar outflanking movement.
The outflanking of the left of the British Army,' he says, 'on the assumption that it remained in position, appeared to be guaranteed.
On the 12th French had arrived first at Kroonstad by one of his usual outflanking movements.
An outflanking movement completed the demoralisation of the Boers, and at 3.
And now, before they could even assume a proper formation for defence, the outflanking Impis had leapt, like greyhounds, on their flanks.
Had he strengthened Macdonald's outflanking move, the right wing of the allied Grand Army might have been shattered.
The crossing was effected without loss by Oudinot and Masséna; and sunrise saw the whole French army advancing rapidly northwards, thereby outflanking the Austrian earthworks, which were now evacuated.
This last-named town has not been included in the itinerary, although it played an important part in the ultimate manœuvre attempted by Von Kluck--that of outflanking the French left wing.
The struggle was hard, the Germans making a desperate resistance, as a serious French advance in this locality would have meant the outflanking of their whole line.
The Germans entered =Marcilly= on the evening of September 4, and abandoned it on the 6th, fearing the outflanking movement of the Seventh Corps towards the north.
The Tenth Corps, by means of its outflanking movement described on p.
On the night of the 7th the outflanking French left found itself outflanked in turn, and its attack turned into a desperate defence.
They were already "utterly crushed" by the masterly way in which Admiral Jellicoe had brought his huge fleet into action, and they saw that Admiral Beatty was outflanking them by "a model manoeuvre, a performance of the highest order.
These moved steadily towards Marengo; while the light infantry and cavalry, under General Elsnitz, made a detour round Castel Ceriolo with the purpose of outflanking the French right.
This converging advance made Mrogoro the only line of retreat, and Smuts planned a complicated outflanking movement to intercept it.
It was both avoiding an obstacle and pursuing its original design of outflanking the Entente's left.
Haig's outflanking project had been rendered equally impossible by the strength of the German resistance to Rawlinson's move on Menin, and by the 21st both sides had been pinned down to a ding-dong soldiers' battle all along the front.
It was a natural continuation of the outflanking struggle, and there was no interval between the British attempt to get to Ghent and the German effort to reach the Channel ports.
Neither side, it was soon apparent, would succeed in that object, and the practical question was at what point the outflanking contest would reach the coast.
Even there the Highlanders would not stop, but went on impetuously as far as the Cité St. Auguste, well outflanking Lens and past the hindmost of the German lines.
The outflanking here was being done by the Germans with uncomfortable rapidity.
Hindenburg made a feint on his right, but pushed his real outflanking movement along the railway on his left.
Brussilov's outflanking movement was continued with success, but the coup de grâce was given here, as at Charleroi and the Marne, by isolating a central group and thus breaking the line.
Joffre's outflanking move was promptly countered, if not indeed anticipated, by the German higher command, and in the first days of October there was a general drift of German forces towards their right and the Channel ports.
The original plan was that the taking of Vaalkranz should be the first step towards the outflanking of Brakfontein and the rolling up of the whole Boer position.
The Boer position could only be taken by outflanking it, and we were not numerous enough nor mobile enough to outflank it.
As French extended to the east and north the Boers extended also to prevent him from outflanking them, and so the little armies stretched and stretched until they were two long mobile skirmishing lines.
Our outflanking force, finding itself heavily engaged, sent and asked the frontal force to advance, to relieve the pressure.
In the middle of this work we were suddenly recalled and ordered to march to the support of the outflanking force, of whose movements we had heard absolutely nothing.
On the same day Von Gallwitz made a strong push northwards between Hazebrouck and Bailleul, with the object of outflanking the line of the Flanders Hills, already attacked on the east and north-east by the IVth Army (Von Arnim).
If successful the assault would accomplish all that the outflanking scheme promised.
With the German reinforcements still coming forward, the outflanking scheme could be tried again at the point where the French line at that time ended.
It must then have been seen that the German outflanking scheme, thus anticipated, had become, on the lines first laid down, impracticable.
The gap, so far as outflanking the Allied forces was concerned, was closed.
Somewhat in this way did Marshal Foch strike the German line, now in this spot, now in that, capturing or putting out of action large numbers of German troops, outflanking first one strategic point and then another.
Now the Germans, who had caused the retreat of the French and British armies upon Paris by continually outflanking the British, were in their turn outflanked and compelled to retreat, and Paris was saved.
Did this outflanking mass reach it first, the white force would probably be destroyed, for they could not get their horses through the wire, and would have crushing odds to overwhelm them.
Below on their right the three men saw the other outflanking "horn" now closing in upon them, and a line of warriors coming through the grass and thorns in front at a trot.
But now appeared a great outflanking mass, pouring up from the northern side, and its object was clear.
The secret of Germany's sudden attempt to overwhelm the Allied left by an outflanking movement was well kept.
Brussiloff countered by bringing up a fresh army under General Lesch with the object of outflanking Linsingen in his turn; and another army, under General Rogoza, was ordered to occupy General Woyrsch's attention farther north.
The first object of these ships was to reach the Guinea coast by outflanking the great western shoulder of the continent.
This retreat again was to be as slow as possible, to prevent an outflanking of the whole.
Noticing that a large number of Germans were outflanking an advanced company of his regiment, he dashed forward, without waiting for orders, and flung bombs amongst the enemy with such effect that they were forced to retire.
According to custom, the German left wing made anoutflanking movement.
At six on the morning of Friday the enemy began an outflanking movement that looked very dangerous.
However, at the psychological moment, the much-discussed British Force materialized and became a live obstacle in the path of the German outflanking movement.
Scipio cared little for this, but was intent on something more important, namely, the outflanking of the enemy.
The latter will be of particular importance when operating on a narrow front which favours an enemy's outflanking endeavours, whereas wider fronts of themselves give a certain degree of security to the rearward communications.
Outflanking detachments, or troops in the following lines, turn against the enemy's Reserves, or remain in reserve.
Victory restores at once the original line of advance, and the outflanking movement threatens also the enemy's retreat.
Thus began what our opponents have called the 'Race to the Sea,' in which each party tried to gain a decision by outflanking the other's western wing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outflanking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
