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Answer for the clue "A former army’s means of moving equipment ", 13 letters:
baggage train

Usage examples of baggage train.

Next day Davout rode out early and, after asking Balashev to come to him, peremptorily requested him to remain there, to move on with the baggage train should orders come for it to move, and to talk to no one except Monsieur de Castres.

I see that they have him, but only since the baggage train halted.

Have any who were involved in delivering the captives from the baggage train report to me at once.

He could see the line of battle, and the dead, stretching east into the forest, a clear trail of bodies and blood showing the way the earlier battle had fallen out with the Quman chasing down the fleeing baggage train and the Polenie trying desperately to stop them.

Then he had left her and made careful dispositions for the whole baggage train.

A page brought his shield and another his lance, young men themselves armed and well mounted, young men whose duty now was to ride with messages, and so he dispatched them down the line to advise the hindmost to arm and prepare, and the baggage train to draw up and bar the road with the carts, save only a gap through which they might retreat if they had to ride back through the woods: an untidy battle if it came to that, but the saving of some if the encounter went badly, the saving of part of an army that might come home to Ylesuin, to Efanor’.

The rear guardroughly 6,000 men under Clinton and Cornwalliswould be separated from the vanguard by the baggage train, making it difficult for the van to double back.

He no longer leads an army, but must be carried in its baggage train.

Horses and men were killed by the prodigious hailstones, tents were torn up by the wind, the baggage train was dragged through mud and floods, and scores died of the fearful cold, “.

When Lok finds a cart or wagon for us we can lose ourselves in the baggage train of Naja's army, hide among the camp-followers until we can reach the headquarters of Uncle Tonka.