If we are retreating from the enemy, our rear groups compose the "rear guard.
Joining Lee's rear guard he was one of the heroes of Fitzhugh Lee's command, engaged in incessant fighting until Appomattox Court House was reached.
Walker held this post all through the evening and night, moving off on the morning of the 15th and covering the retirement from that part of the field, the Second rifles marching as rear guard.
We call the battle of Ox Hill a battle with Pope's rear guard, for such it was.
On the 20th Commandant Mitchel, one of the most gallant officers of the artillery service, was mortally wounded while making an observation from the highest point of the fort.
He particularly commended the gallantry of the men on his advanced line under unremitting fire for eight days and nights from the enemy's monitors, gunboats, mortar boats and land batteries.
Ogier, division surgeon, both died of fever at Morton, lamented by their comrades.
Corporal James:= I had already given him his orders to follow as rear guard and he should do so without my telling him.
The few mounted men with us who had been advanced guard the previous day had been kept back to carry out the duties of rear guard on this occasion, and on their approach the snipers fled, and we were annoyed no more that day.
They broke and ran, and while the fugitives hurried off toward Loznitza and Shabatz, a rear guard of Hungarians on the hills to the northwest put up a rather indifferent fight before they, too, fled in mad disorder.
It is no disgrace to be wounded and taken prisoner in a rear guard action.
The situation, as far as the Canadians were concerned, was that upon us there devolved the necessity of fighting a rear guard action.
Beauregard posted a rear guard in a strong position, and withdrew his army, leaving his dead on the field, while Grant captured about as many guns on the second day as he had lost on the first.
The advance guard had an engagement at that place {167} with Jackson's rear guard, while his main body retired to Manassas Junction.
Deploying his cavalry as a rear guard, and placing one gun to command the road, Manson retreated to his position of the evening before and again formed line of battle.
Zeke was the leader of the trio while George had taken Pete's place as rear guard.
Every boy had his kit strapped upon his back in addition to the rifle which he carried while Zeke led the way and Pete served as a rear guard.
Zeke and Thomas Jefferson led the way while Pete and the other Navajo formed a rear guard.
A number of his men dropped, but he was halfway across and he pressed on, the New York cavalry and Marchmont's small troop acting as rear guard.
As nature had intended Marshal Ney for the command of a rear guard, and Murat for the command of cavalry, so she had equipped Lannes with those qualities which are specially required by the commander of an advance guard.
During the campaign of 1795 Soult was entrusted with a light column of three battalions of infantry and six squadrons of cavalry, and was constantly employed as an advance or rear guard.
On the morning of the 17th the dispirited Prince of Moskowa took no steps to find out what his enemy was doing, although he received orders from the Emperor at ten o'clock to occupy Quatre Bras if there was only a rear guard there.
The details of the deserted and blackened camp of his "Rear Guard" on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition will prove to be more tragic than any which went before.
The augmented train now numbered about twenty-six wagons and formed a rear guard worthy of the name.
There was some semblance of flankers and a rear guard now, and even the cannons were not forsaken.
Crab Orchard, and were here informed that the rear guard of the enemy had passed through only an hour before.
After proceeding about eight miles, our column was suddenly brought to a halt, by our scouts coming in contact with the enemy's rear guard.
We continued on for about two miles, when our advance had some little skirmishing with the enemy's rear guard.
We soon learned, from scouts sent out, that the firing was occasioned by a skirmish between our advance and the rear guard of the enemy, who were slowly retreating before us.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rear guard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
