A few had straggled among the conquered columns, where they stalked in sullen discontent; attentive, though, as yet, passive observers of the moving multitude.
Trained to defeat columns of armored tanks and hordes of enemy infantry, the intimate, door-to-door nature of both nation's Afghan war proved a steep learning curve.
The colonial police accompanied a column of 62 wagons and civilian colonists deep into Mashonaland, founding three settlements at Lowveld, Fort Victoria and Fort Charter (now Harare, Zimbabe).
He did as she bid him. " A column of armored men, " he reported. " Across the Red Fork. They are flying a purple unicorn below the lion of Lannister" .
Indeed, many a maimed and feeble soldier was compelled to drag his exhausted limbs in the rear of the columns, for the want of the necessary means of conveyance in that wilderness.