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alt. 1 a unit or units leading the way of advance or march troops, guarding them from ambushes, reconnoitering and pursuing the enemy, etc. 2 an individual soldier in the same role. n. 1 a unit or units leading the way of advance or march troops, guarding them from ambushes, reconnoitering and pursuing the enemy, etc. 2 an individual soldier in the same role.
Usage examples of "advance guard".
Shined and polished and ready for duty: one-dish-devouring Spartans, nine against Thebes, at Leuthen, in Teutoburg Forest, the nine loyal stalwarts, the nine Swabians, nine brown swans, the last levy, the lost platoon, the rear guard, the advance guard, nine alliterated Burgundian noses: this is the sorrow of the Nibelungs in Eddi Etzel's snow-covered garden.
The 'Mech Stars were lined up in two echelons, the advance guard and the main body.
We found a fairly wide dirt road that ran through the forest and, following a small advance guard, made good progress.
Ludendorff, thinking the Citadel had been taken by an advance guard sent ahead for that purpose, drove up the steep winding road in a Staff car with a single adjutant.
Reaching the courtyard he found no German soldiers in possession, the advance guard having not yet arrived.
You command only my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my order.
With that decision made, he ordered his lead brigade to advance as scheduled, with his advance guard playing the reconnaissance role.
Now under their captain, John Parker, a former Indian fighter, they formed into two thin lines on the triangular green as the British advance guard swung into view.
Until he could muster sufficient strength to lay siege to the hidden city, Dribeck intended to rely on this advance guard for intelligence of Kane&rsquo.