What is "vanguards"

Usage examples of "vanguards".

He had regarded it at first as an affair of vanguards, but now he realized suddenly that this was the great battle they had been expecting.

Harry and Dalton stopped at Gettysburg, seeing the battle of the vanguards won, and turned back.

And yet, almost he could sympathise with the entrepreneurial Vanguards men.

The charred corpses were cleared from the bridge, the interrupted progress resumed, and the Kokotte reached Equality Circle, where she was enshrined upon a suitably tall platform, with Vanguards men stationed below to worship and to guard her day and night.