Voorbeelden van reconnoitred

• They had meticulously studied and reconnoitred the location and dispositions of each of the divisions and their main headquarters.

• A transporter on the route, which had been previously reconnoitred, had difficulty in negotiating two very sharp bends and blocked the road.

• The troops must be trained to deploy at short notice into their previously reconnoitred positions and according to strategy agreed by their allies.

• In addition, the areas in which they were to operate were thoroughly reconnoitred.

• In another case the ship was reconnoitred with a searchlight on the night before, and at dawn an aeroplane came down and sank her.

• The company commander had reconnoitred and chosen the shallowest place for crossing.

• Once you get tanks away from a reconnoitred ground they get into trouble at once.

• Newry was reconnoitred, but was found to be less suitable, from a military point of view, for the location of troops than other places.

• Will he take steps in future to see that obstacles of this character are sufficiently reconnoitred and danger signals posted before we waste lives unnecessarily in this way?

• The route was reconnoitred and found to be passable by a lightly armed force.

• It was useful when enemy positions had not been thoroughly reconnoitred, as it did not depend on identifying individual targets in advance.

• The team reconnoitred the area and planned the abduction.

• The ascent was all the more remarkable because the peak was explored, reconnoitred and climbed all within one season; and was climbed without the use of supplemental oxygen.

• Sultan reconnoitred the opposing army from an eminence and observing the vast numbers he regretted having come thither.