Examples of using Defensive position in English and their translations into Spanish
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The castle- known as the"Luxembourg Alamo" for being the final unsuccessful defensive position of the American GI's during the Battle of Clervaux(December 1944)- allows easy escape up to the Benedictine Abbey of St Maurice,
The Caney was a small defensive position supported on the fort of El Viso,
I'm gonna have my men remain in a defensive position until dawn, when we will move on the park.
rather to attain a good defensive position and then use their naval superiority to block the triumvirs' communications with their supply base in Italy.
The tanks can fire off a few shots from their defensive position, then retreat(reversing)
as it was believed that the Japanese had established a radio station and a defensive position there which commanded the entrance to Arawe Harbor.
retreated to Moscow, taking a defensive position near Poklonnaya Hill
took up a strong defensive position and demanded that the Cimbri and their allies leave the province immediately.
Superb gun-crew training allowed Napoleon to move the weapons at great speed to either bolster a weakening defensive position, or else hammer a potential break in enemy lines.
Captain Thomas French, M Company Commander was kept busy on the Reno defensive position line using the cleaning rod from his infantry rifle to clear the jammed carbines passed to him from the cavalryman on the line.
the delay of Stonewall Jackson's troops allowed his enemy to escape to a strong defensive position on Malvern Hill.
Inoki kept to his back in a defensive position almost the full duration of the match of 15 rounds, hitting Ali with a low kick repeatedly.
A MONUC team was dispatched to a new RCD defensive position at Moliro on 10 September, and reported a FAC force there,
Several times he attempted to establish a strong defensive position, but each time the French advance was too quick for him to finish preparations
Dunbar Castle was a central defensive position of the Kings of Bernicia,
of Champagne in 1915, the Germans planned to capture the Meuse Heights, an excellent defensive position with good observation for artillery-fire on Verdun.
which would provide a secure defensive position from which to repel French counter-attacks.
25-metre-high Gran Basamento- a natural platform offering a fine defensive position and commanding views over the surrounding terrain.
This paper argues that it is high time for the human rights community to change their defensive position of critiquing donor-imposed metrics to a more constructive one;
Because the summit of the kop was mostly hard rock, the trenches were at most 40 centimetres(16 in) deep and provided an exceptionally poor defensive position- the British infantry in the trenches could not see over the crest of the plateau