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Definition of Flanking
1. flank [v] - See also: flank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flanking
Literary usage of Flanking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865 by Adam Badeau (1881)
"... Kingston, and Rome—flanking movement against Dallas—Drawn battle at New Hope
... Mountain—Further flanking movements—Retreat of Johnston—Crossing of ..."
2. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865 by Adam Badeau (1881)
"... Kingston, and Rome—flanking movement against Dallas—Drawn battle at New Hope
church—Sherman returns to railroad south of Allatoona —Unsuccessful attack ..."
3. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1908)
"The flanking ridge appears also in the distance. In plate SA the flanking ridge
is broader; in plate 9л it is more nearly a terrace than a ridge. ..."
4. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1863)
"A flanking Moved from west to east along the top of the artillery is • to east
al plateau, the French guns, which had dealt with the poured column, ..."
5. The Conduct of War: A Short Treatise on Its Most Important Branches and by Colmar Goltz, George Francis Leverson (1908)
"Tactical flanking Positions.1 These come under the some rules as similar 1 We
here quote ... At the same time we must consider thai by taking np a, flanking ..."
6. The Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900 by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1900)
"The interval passed in receiving reinforcements, and in accumulating a transport
service which should enable the army to perform a long flanking march, for, ..."
7. The Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900 by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1901)
"BRITISH PREPARE FOR A flanking ATTACK UPON THE BOERS* RIGHT AT THE TUGELA.
THE BOER ASSAULT ON LADYSMITH, JANUARY 6TH. A FTER the reverse at Colenso, ..."
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