Example sentences of "the north [adj] campaign " in BNC.
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1 | My father , a Desert Rat , tells me that in the North African campaign you never asked a man with a shovel where he was going , so I let Nat go . |
2 | The infantry was shielded by a moving barrage laid down by massed artillery , the first of a number of concentrated shoots in which Leslie participated in the North African campaign . |
3 | The performance of the 4th Indian Division among the mountains of Tunisia was one of the high points of the North African campaign . |
4 | It had been in Essex that , out of discontent with sitting at home , Leslie had requested a posting abroad ; and it was somehow appropriate that it was with the men of Essex that he should have ended the North African campaign . |
5 | The biographers of Paddy Mayne quote a veteran of the North African campaign : ‘ We thought it was tough dealing with extremes of heat . |
6 | Captain Schott 's report of the trip , originally classified ‘ Most Secret ’ , is one of the few after-action reports to have survived from the SAS in the North African campaign . |