field army
Americannoun
noun
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They later arrived in the North Sinai town of El-Arish, accompanied by the commander of Egypt's second field army.
From Reuters ● May 20, 2013
One field army under General Chen Keng took Tikang, 80 miles southwest and upriver from the Nationalist capital.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is partly because of Ridgway's more independent personality, partly because MacArthur's headquarters now realizes that a field army in Korea cannot be successfully run from Tokyo.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S. field army in Iceland is headed by cob-nosed, soft-spoken Major General Charles H. Bonesteel, formerly in command of the Fifth Division.
From Time Magazine Archive
French Revolutionary Wars.—During the long wars of the French Revolution and Empire the artillery of the field army by degrees became field artillery as we know it to-day.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
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