Advance Guard Definition

noun
A detachment of troops sent ahead of a main force to reconnoiter and provide protection.
American Heritage
A detachment of troops sent ahead to reconnoiter and protect the line of march.
Webster's New World

A unit or units leading the way of advancing or marching troops, guarding them from ambushes, reconnoitering and pursuing the enemy, etc.

Wiktionary

An individual soldier in the same role.

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Alternative spelling of advance guard.
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Other Word Forms of Advance Guard

Noun

Singular:
advance guard
Plural:
advance-guards

Advance Guard Sentence Examples

  • The timing was propitious, as black clouds had begun to roll up the valley and gather above them, the advance guard of a summer shower.

  • The capitan pasha left his anchorage in the Gulf of Patras with his fleet in a single line, without reserve or advance-guard.

  • On the 7th of March Napoleon fell upon the advance guard of this force at Craonne and drove it back upon Laon, where a battle took place on the 9th.

  • The Homeric Dorians of Crete were also interpreted by Andron and others (3rd century) as an advance-guard of this sea-borne migration, and as having separated from the other Dorians while still in Histiaeotis.

  • Before dawn on the 10th the advance guard of Turenne's army was ascending the Glotter Tal.

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