The still more complicated task of bringing across a second battalion to guard the left flank remained.
That accomplished, a second battalion was to cross, to form flank from the Oyghem-Desselghem Road to the left of the leading battalion.
A second battalion, the 10th Rifles, was then to pass through and continue the attack along what was known as the Canal du Nord Line to Lock 4, opposite Inchy.
But this was not what he wanted, and on the 28th of December following he submitted to the Government three alternative proposals for raising a second battalion.
Immediately after, Letters of Service were issued in his favour for raising a second battalion of the same size as the first.
To meet the emergency, our army was increased, and the— Second Battalion of the 3d Foot constituted the 61st Regiment.
Most regiments in the field had a second battalion at home, ready to make good the casualties in the foreign battalion as they occurred, but the fate of the 51st had been against its ever having been able to recruit a second battalion.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "second battalion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
