Sentences with 'battalions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word battalions and other words derived from it.
• « The Einsatzgruppen (Nazi mobile killing squads) and the local helpers they recruited were responsible for approximately 1 million deaths over the course of the war. The Einsatzgruppen were assisted by regular units of the Wehrmacht (German army) and by battalions of the Order Police, a hybrid of police force and national guard mobilised for the war effort. »
• « Shortly afterwards, Liniers asked the people to voluntarily form military corps to organise the defence of the city against a possible new English attack. His call was well received and about 8,000 men gathered in infantry battalions or cavalry squadrons. »
• « The natives of the city were grouped into three battalions of Patricios, one of them under the command of Cornelio Saavedra; those from the northern provinces into those of Arribeños; the coloureds into those of Pardos and Morenos; the countrymen into three squadrons of Hussars, with Juan Martín de Pueyrredón as the leader of one of them. For their part, the European Spaniards were divided into Galicians, Catalans, Andalusians, Asturians, Vizcainos, etc., according to their place of birth. »