field army
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
Iraq's field army, committed to the static defense of Kuwait, simply had to dig in and take the pounding.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Chen Yi, military ruler of the East China region, conqueror and mayor of Shanghai, commander of the third field army and perennial squabbler with his political commissars.
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
July the Russians lost on an average 250 men a day, and at last it was decided that Gorchakov and the field army must make another attack at the Chernaya—the first since Inkerman.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
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