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Expeditionary   /ˌɛkspədˈɪʃənˌɛri/   Listen
Expeditionary

adjective
1.
(used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad.






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"Expeditionary" Quotes from Famous Books



... advocates of preparedness, "we might have to send an expeditionary force. If France were attacked, we should have to help her on land as well as at sea. And we have sent armies ...
— A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder

... not absolutely unprepared in the sense that the United States is unprepared, even for self-defence from external attack, but except for the fleet and her little expeditionary force, England had neither men nor equipment equal to the fighting of a great ...
— The War on All Fronts: England's Effort - Letters to an American Friend • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... the British Troops in South Africa, was shut up in Ladysmith; a month at least must elapse before the Expeditionary Force, which the British Government had on September 22 decided to send out, would be able to take the field; Mafeking was besieged; the diamond men of Kimberley, like a passionate child interned in a dark room, were screaming for release; Sir Alfred ...
— A Handbook of the Boer War • Gale and Polden, Limited

... enumerates the great numerical resources of Germany — Lord Kitchener's immediate recognition of the realities of the situation — Sir J. French's suggestion that Lord Kitchener should be commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Force indicated misconception ...
— Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 • Charles Edward Callwell

... Nile is the spacious bay of Aboukir, where on the 1st of August 1798 Nelson fought the battle of the Nile, often referred to as the battle of Aboukir. The latter title is applied more properly to an engagement between the French expeditionary army and the Turks fought on the 25th of July 1799. Near Aboukir, on the 8th of March 1801, the British army commanded by Sir R. Abercromby landed from its transports in the face of a strenuous opposition from a French force entrenched on the beach. ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... before Muhammud Ali and his allies, whose cooperation and assistance were absolutely necessary. These, after hearing the proposal, agreed to give their assistance, but only upon the condition that Clive should be placed in command of the expeditionary party. They had already seen the paralysing effects of the incapacity of some English officers. Clive's defence of Arcot, and the victories of Arni and Kavaripak, had excited their intense admiration, and caused them to place unbounded confidence ...
— With Clive in India - Or, The Beginnings of an Empire • G. A. Henty

... he sought a new energy in the struggle "where the worst friend and enemy is but Death." After seeing service in Belgium, 1914, he spent the following winter in a training-camp in Dorsetshire and sailed with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in February, 1915, to take part ...
— Modern British Poetry • Various



Words linked to "Expeditionary" :   military, armed services, war machine, armed forces, military machine, expedition



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