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Definition of Outflanked
1. outflank [v] - See also: outflank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outflanked
Literary usage of Outflanked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Battles from the Earliest Date to the Present Time by Thomas Benfield Harbottle (1904)
"Meanwhile the Duke of York had outflanked them, and as soon as he was in position
a simultaneous attack on the French left and centre forced Brune to ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"A GENERAL outflanked. MRS. CLO. MARSHALL fluttered down into one of the sombre
parlors at Willard's, and settled her voluminous drapery on a damask lounge. ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"... to support us on the left, failed to get in position as early as was expected,
and, our left being unprotected, we were about to be outflanked, ..."
4. Napoleon; a History of the Art of War by Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1904)
"... reached Biberach October 8, and later took post on the Iller; Kien- mayer was
drawn into Neuburg ; Schwarzenberg and Riesch Mack outflanked. moved to ..."
5. History of the Great Rebellion, from Its Commencement to Its Close, Giving by Thomas Prentice Kettell (1865)
"... thoroughly outflanked was just what Lee had used in Virginia, "without a word
of blame from any quarter. ..."
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