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Countermarch

noun

(military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route.

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"Countermarch" Quotes from Famous Books

... for we could see them in twos and threes, and presently in fives and sixes, galloping into their trenches, which were evidently deep enough to shelter horse and man. It was most probable that larger bodies had already begun their countermarch from Ladysmith. We were not wasting our time or ...

— London to Ladysmith via Pretoria • Winston Spencer Churchill

... cushion of muscle on the point of his chin clear up to his under lip, and he draws his breath through the corners of his mouth. He's the real thing. Bright boy, too, I judge, the kind that has a quick answer for everybody, like: "Aw, go chase yerself," or "Go on, yeh big stiff." Watch him on the countermarch when they pass the Radnor cornet band. The Radnors broke up the Mechanicsburg band last year and they're going to try to do it again this year. The musicians blow themselves the color of a huckleberry, ...

— Back Home • Eugene Wood

Words linked to "Countermarch" : armed forces, military, process, march, reorder, military machine, marching, armed services, war machine