Avant-garde

French-English Dictionary of Military Terms · 1918 · p. 3

Advanced guard.—Pointe d’avant-garde. Point (party) of vanguard.—Gros de l’avant-garde. Main guard. Téte d’avant-garde. Vanguard.—Avant-garde str até- gique (avant-garde générale). Strategic advanced guard.— Avant-garde particuliére. Tactical advanced guard of a column forming part of an army covered by a strategic advanced guard. [p.45]