advance guard's Usage Examples:

The Austrian advance guard broke into the city and pillaged it, the Ottomans saw that they could.

Finding that his men "could not breake in upon them, but trifled out the time", Mytton left his advance guard in place while making a flanking.

The advance guard, led by Étienne.

The battleDeploymentThe Florentines deployed an advance guard of cavalry, behind which, in the centre of their line stood the bulk of their cavalry.

He was the leader of the Tokugawa advance guard.

On 15 April at Pordenone, the Austrian advance guard routed the French rear guard, inflicting heavy losses.

The remnants of the German advance guard were destroyed.

On 13 November 1805 Marshals Murat and Lannes, commanding the French advance guard, had captured a bridge over the Danube at Vienna by falsely claiming.

Pitcairn's advance guard reached Lexington first and drew up on the Common opposite Parker's men.

General Kléber led an advance guard and boldly decided to engage the much larger Turkish army of 35,000.

The vanguard (also called the advance guard) is the leading part of an advancing military formation.

(also called the advance guard) is the leading part of an advancing military formation.

1805) saw the advance guard of the French III Corps attack a retreating Austrian force led by Maximilian, Count of Merveldt.

Synonyms:

progress, travel, change of location, head, progression, headway,

Antonyms:

disapprove, forbid, fail, appear, prevent,