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Chequered retreat, (retraite en échiquier, Fr.) a line or battalion, alternately retreating and facing about in the presence of an enemy, exhibiting a deployment like chequered squares; Column: a formation of soldiers marching in files in which the files is significantly longer than the width of ranks in the formation. Command and control
Napoleon's withdrawal from Moscow Napoleon's army at the retreat from Russia at the Berezina river. A tactical withdrawal or retreating defensive action is a type of military operation, generally meaning that retreating forces draw back while maintaining contact with the enemy.
"Retreat": Formerly used to signal troops to retreat. Now used to signal the end of the official day. [6] This bugle call is very close to Sunset used in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms. (This call is also used to introduce Act 3 of La damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz.) In the U.S. Army, it is signaled right before To The Colors.
A feigned retreat is a military tactic, a type of feint, whereby a military force pretends to withdraw or to have been routed, in order to lure an enemy into a position of vulnerability. [ 1 ] A feigned retreat is one of the more difficult tactics for a military force to undertake, and requires well-disciplined soldiers.
Safe conduct pass, issued by American forces and air dropped in Vietnam to encourage defection of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces.. Safe conduct, safe passage, or letters of transit, is the situation in time of international conflict or war where one state, a party to such conflict, issues to a person (usually, an enemy state's subject) a pass or document to allow the enemy alien to ...
Being around so many women at the reader's retreat who weren't afraid to be honest about how a book made them feel or how it related to their real-life experiences felt comforting and transformative.
For example, in 2005, The New York Times published an article titled "Hospital Staff Cutback Blamed for Test Result Snafu". [9] The attribution of SNAFU to the American military is not universally accepted: it has also been attributed to the British, [10] although the Oxford English Dictionary gives its origin and first recorded use as the U.S ...
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