Soon the Burgundians were completely surrounded by the rear-guard of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference

Very soon after our rear-guard was aboard, General Sherman learned from Admiral.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Now it was evident that the Bolshevik rear-guard action was not to be scared out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

This will furnish a sufficient rear-guard for the corps which the Commission has marshalled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference

I am aware that I am fighting a rear-guard action, and that the war is over and we have lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Naughty! Haughty! It's Anti-Multi-Culti!] Reference

"Stop," his lips only moved; and I stopped and turned to Dan, for he still had the rear-guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

"I think he's fighting a rear-guard action on a very big scale," said the colonel thoughtfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

The best rear-guard action in the war on terror, for example, is a war on poverty and ignorance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of Swagger] Reference

Late on the 17th, his rear-guard was overtaken near Adairsville, and heavy skirmishing followed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Their leader was already safe on the other side, but the cries of his rear-guard brought him back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference

They fought scarcely any but rear-guard actions, and their retreat was so rapid as to be almost a rout.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference

The division withdrew in good order, keeping up a rear-guard action that kept the enemy at a respectful distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive] Reference

Just as the head of the column emerged from a dark, miry swamp, we encountered the rear-guard of the retreating enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

But she is putting up a spirited rear-guard action to preserve the long-established job security of her union members.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schoolyard Brawl] Reference

Sigel's brigade was placed in advance, and Sturgis's brigade of regulars was assigned the important post of rear-guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference

On the 17th, toward evening, the head of Thomas's column, Newton's division, encountered the rear-guard of Johnston's army near.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Tennessee River, and our only chance of accomplishing anything of importance was to smash up his rear-guard before it crossed the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

While it battles for influence in Washington, the agency is also fighting a rear-guard action against critics at home and abroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [ABOARD AIR CIA] Reference

It may be the courts rather than the executive branch that eventually halt the far right's rear-guard campaign against desegregation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outposts Of Apartheid] Reference

The mullahs who rule Iran have been fighting a rear-guard action against communications technology ever since they took power in 1979.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Words Are The Best Weapon] Reference

Hill was left a small rear-guard of cavalry, which hastily decamped, however, when charged by Gibbs's brigade on the morning of the 20th.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

By the 13th the rear-guard had arrived, and the same day the advance resumed its march, followed as before, a day separating the divisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Bohain, where some tough fighting had been going on, the enemy rear-guard making a stout defence, so as to give his main body time to get away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference

Early in the morning I came in with the rear-guard, the enemy advancing his pickets and main guards only, and making no effort at all to press us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

General Davis handled his division with artistic skill, more especially at the moment we encountered the enemy's rear-guard, near Graysville, at nightfall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Their rear-guard, commanded by Marshal Ney, made good fight when pressed by the British, but their losses were heavy before they reached the Spanish frontier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference

On the top of this bank the jungle had been cleared for about thirty yards, and on this Lieutenant Gunnel, with seven royal marines, was posted as a rear-guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference

Occurring among the foremost wagons, they increase so rapidly that notwithstanding proper precaution and slowness in front, a rear-guard will often be kept running.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

By night Thomas's head of column ran up against a strong rear-guard intrenched at Smyrna camp-ground, six miles below Marietta, and there on the next day we celebrated our.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Charlemagne, returning from his expedition to Spain, crossed that valley and the Pyrenees, leaving his rear-guard in command of Roland, Prefect of the Marches of Brittany.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference

The troops did not seem to be disposed in battle order, but on the other side of the bivouac was a line of battle -- a heavy rear-guard -- confronting, presumably, General Meade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

His main army had passed unmolested; but at the moment when the rear-guard advanced into the defiles of the mountain, thousands of Gascons rushed from their ambush, fell upon the.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference