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Noun Concept
Categories: Military slang and jargon, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Siege tactics
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forlorn hope
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A forlorn hope is a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the vanguard in a military operation, such as a suicidal assault through the kill zone of a defended position, or the first men to climb a scaling ladder against a defended fortification, or a rearguard, to be expended to save a retreating army, where the risk of casualties is high. Wikipedia
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A forlorn hope is a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the vanguard in a military operation, such as a suicidal assault through the kill zone of a defended position, or the first men to climb a scaling ladder against a defended fortification, or a rearguard, to be expended to save a retreating army, where the risk of casualties is high. Wikipedia
A group of soldiers tasked with leading the vanguard in a military advance, where the risk of casualties is extremely high Wikipedia Disambiguation
IS A
military unit
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
Serdengeçti
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forlorn hope
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forlorn hope
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Enfants Perdus, Folorn Hope, Forlon hope, Forlorn Hope, Forlorn hopes, Les Enfants Perdus, Verlorener Haufen
Wikidata Alias
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enfants perdus, forlorn troops, lost children, lost troops

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