Already they anticipated a turning movement by the west and were making ready, with their usual wise prevision, to meet it in the most unpleasant manner.
The 9th Lancers, the 12th Lancers, the mounted infantry, and G Battery of Horse Artillery pushed in on the extreme right and attempted a turning movement.
A direct attack on Pope was impossible, but a turning movement, by way of James City, might have found him unprepared, or a swift advance might have crushed King.
Paget's original idea had been a turning movement, but the Boers were the more numerous body, and it was impossible for the smaller British force to find their flanks, for they extended over at least seven miles.
On January 19th Warren's turning movementbegan to bring him into closer touch with the enemy, his thirty-six field guns and the six howitzers which had returned to him crushing down the opposition which faced him.
He was unable to communicate with French, but the latter, as soon as he saw that Kelly-Kenny had achieved his object, ordered a turning movement by the cavalry.
Reconnaissances were, however, not needed to prove to Buller that Colenso, where the railway passed up into the Tugela ridge, was immune to a frontal attack, and that Ladysmith must be relieved by a turning movement.
Sherman’s was certainly a turning movement, a steady blue flood rolling south by Snake Creek Pass, between Milk and Horn Mountains.
With four brigades under Mahone, Longstreet began a turning movement.
Two days later, Sherman in Georgia, like Grant in Virginia, resorted again to a turning movement.
During this time Hamilton was pushing swiftly forward, and Smith-Dorrien's 19th Infantry Brigade occupied the line of heights, and thus set free the mounted troops for a turning movement.
They were apprised, however, about five o'clock in the evening that three army corps were advancing against them, while a fourth was marching against their left along the road from Tournai in a turning movement.
Speaking of this very section of the battle front, he wrote: "We were obliged to retreat as the English were attempting a turning movement, which was discovered by our airmen.
Nature, itself, protected their right at Grodek against a turning movement.
The Russians perceived a turning movement on the part of the enemy, south of Cracow, directed against the Russian left wing.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turning movement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
