English to Shona Meaning of rearguard - rearguard

Rearguard :

rearguard

Share This

Definitions of rearguard in English

Noun(1) a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating

Examples of rearguard in English

(1) the academies acted as powerful guardians of the rearguard(2) So now a rearguard battle is being fought to avoid this particular tide of history.(3) Too few troops on the ground going in left the heartland unconquered and rearguard supply troops vulnerable to attack.(4) There's been an ongoing rearguard action from that group, " he said.(5) At the pass of Rencesvals, the twenty thousand Christians of the rearguard are ambushed by a vastly superior force, numbering in the hundreds of thousands.(6) The success of the long retreat and the rearguard engagements in 1944 and 1945 came despite, rather than because of, Hitler.(7) Smith's struggle against secularism can be viewed as a lifetime of rearguard actions.(8) Our line of defence straddled a major road from which the bulk of our unit was withdrawn the night before the British attack and my platoon was left behind as the rearguard with the instruction to fight to the last bullet.(9) Right at the back were lines of rearguard infantrymen.(10) When the army advances on the enemy, these men by custom form the vanguard and on their return the rearguard .(11) The commander finally withdrew his rearguard and moved the last few soldiers across the abandoned camp.(12) Mercifully, he had played no role in the shooting, serving as the rearguard of the second unit.(13) However, on August 26th, a British rearguard guarding the retreat of the bulk of the BEF did sustain 8,000 casualties at the Battle of Le Chateau.(14) Rambling and canoeing organisations have now launched a fierce rearguard fight against British Waterways, which they say is guilty of scaremongering, and are arguing the case for a Scottish Waterways organisation to be set up.(15) Okulicki and Pelczynski thought the plan for Warsaw's underground fighters to wait until the Wehrmacht evacuated the city, and then harass its rearguard , was too passive.(16) Roland becomes the commander of the rearguard , appointed to the post at the instance of the traitor Ganelon, who is in league with the Saracen king Marsile.

Related Phrases of rearguard

(1) rearguard ::

rearguard

(2) rear ::

shure

(3) guard ::

murindi

Related Phrases of rearguard

(1) rearguard ::

rearguard

(2) rear ::

shure

(3) guard ::

murindi

Synonyms

English to Shona Dictionary: rearguard

Meaning and definitions of rearguard, translation in Shona language for rearguard with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of rearguard in Shona and in English language.

Tags for the entry 'rearguard'

What rearguard means in Shona, rearguard meaning in Shona, rearguard definition, examples and pronunciation of rearguard in Shona language.

English to Shona Dictionary: rearguard

Meaning and definitions of rearguard, translation in Shona language for rearguard with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of rearguard in Shona and in English language.

Tags for the entry 'rearguard'

What rearguard means in Shona, rearguard meaning in Shona, rearguard definition, examples and pronunciation of rearguard in Shona language.