Word: flanking
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When the Belgian surrender fatally exposed their left flank, the British, who were falling back from Arras-Cambrai to Lille, crossed the Lys River to Ypres and formed the east wall of an escape corridor along the Yser Canal to the sea. The flower of their Army, the proud Guards regiments-Coldstream, Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots-had to let their line fold back from the southeast while their artillery and remaining armored units covered the rear...
...greatest and most decisive, but the Allied Commander fighting it had also fought history's last two "greatest battles," both desperate actions: at the Battle of the Marne where Weygand saw his chief resist the distraction caused by German pressure on his centre and his left flank, to concentrate on attacking; at Warsaw where in 1920 he himself took command of the Poles, threw back the victorious Reds and kept the tide of Bolshevism out of Europe...
Below, bridges repaired, the infantry brigade comes up, artillery and wire are placed on the far hill to hold the flank, a railhead is established, the airfield reconstructed, and the tanks have moved on to their next objective...
Communique No. 2 issued yesterday by the Commodore reads as follows: "Secrecy is an important pre-requisite to our expedition but, confidentially, we hope to turn that old Wellesley flank...
...wounded in the head by bomb splinters. Then went the British, throwing their arms and stores away, their retreat "covered" by Norwegians, whose Colonel Ole Getz complained bitterly, and surrendered to the Germans, when he found that the Allies had left him to fight with an open flank and rear. (The British said Colonel Getz's superior, General Otto Ruge, understood their plan, went with them.) Furiously pursuing German airmen raked and bombarded the launches loading on Namsos' concatenated waterfront. They dumped rack after rack of bombs at transports and warships steaming away from shore. How many boatloads...