rear guard in a sentence

Examples

1. Regardless, the Australians expected only to encounter rear guard elements.
2. The Ottoman XVIII Corps escaped destruction only by fighting some desperate rear guard actions.
3. In the dwarf mongoose, males low in the hierarchy make up a rear guard.
4. He commanded the rear guard in an unsuccessful action at Schwanenstadt on 18 December.
5. It included a rear guard battle under Pedro de Meneses.
6. As the Prussian rear guard pulled out of Waren, the first French cavalry attacked.
7. During the long retreat to Tunisia, the 21st Panzer fought the rear guard actions.
8. The rear guard from a American General Benjamin Lincoln.
9. He led the rear guard during the 1805 campaign.
10. The rear guard commander unwisely drew up his soldiers with the bridge at their backs.