International Brigade
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But Mindaugas Lietuvninkas, a volunteer sniper with Ukraine's International Brigade, has other motivations for helping the war effort.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2023
On 21 August 1941, French International Brigade veteran Pierre Georges and two colleagues met at the Barbès-Rochechouart metro station in Paris.
From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2020
‘I volunteered for the International Brigade to fight against Franco,” the anarchic British comedian Alexei Sayle once quipped.
From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2015
When civil war broke out in Spain, he joined a machine-gun unit of the French Battalion of the 11th International Brigade, fighting on the northwest sector of the Madrid front.
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2010
It was on the stationery of the International Brigade Association in London, dated January, 1938.
From The Five Arrows by Chase, Allan
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