Examples of battalion

• But these men were carrying guns and were formed in battalions and regiments. 

• I have lost every friend I have got in the battalion, except Neil here and you. 

• I met a young officer of the machine-gun battalion, and lending him my glasses pointed out where the Germans were massing. 

• In July the battalion was relieved from this brigade and attached directly to corps headquarters. 

• The battalion had no losses. 

• The rival factions split and each formed their own battalion, which stayed apart until 1921.

• Fighting units had been standardized, so that the company, battalion, or division were terms used to denote approximately equivalent formations in every force.

• It consisted of twelve infantry battalions, divided into three brigades, supported by three brigades of artillery.