Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hill Beside the Valley. When early this month the British First Army pushed northward into hills on the valley rim, they found the going good. They took the high ground above Medjez-el-Bab. Up the nearby heights by mule pack they hauled artillery. With the artillery already in place west and south of Medjez-el-Bab, a great horseshoe of batteries covered the valley where it de bouches on the plain before Tunis. All the batteries pointed toward three objectives: the fortified hill known as Long Stop and the two hills in front of it. Without Long Stop, dominating...
Over the caked mud of the Kuban region and on thaw-softened battlefields stretching northward for 1,500 miles, the Wehrmacht and the Red Army prepared for the summer struggles...
Rommel had pulled away almost intact, leaving behind a few Italianate droppings (the Eighth Army claimed only 8,000 prisoners, almost all Italian). The Axis armor had moved swiftly northward through the Gabes bottleneck, had settled down for at least a temporary stand at the Wadi el Akarit, a gulch about 16 miles north of Gabes...
...Patton had not been ordered to try to cut Rommel off, he had certainly been given the task of harassing his flank as he withdrew northward. This Patton had not been able to do; he must have had his doubts as to who was winning the first round of the Rommel-v.-Patton match...
...remote things, which in their sum total are George Patton, may well have been in his mind as he paced headquarters and watched immediate success slipping northward on his map and away from...