advanced squadron

The Sailor's Word-Book

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♦ Advance, or vanguard, that division of a force which is next the enemy, or which marches before a body.

♦ Advance fosse, a ditch of water round the esplanade or glacis of a fortification.

♦ Advance! the order to marines and small-arm men to move forward.

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