Definition of Outflanks. Meaning of Outflanks. Synonyms of Outflanks

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Definition of Outflanks

Outflank
Outflank Out*flank", v. t. (Mil.) To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass around or turn the flank or flanks of.

Meaning of Outflanks from wikipedia

- Operation Outflank was the first combat operation of the British Pacific Fleet (BPF). It was a series of raids by the Fleet Air Arm on the oil refineries...
- In military tactics, a flanking maneuver is a movement of an armed force around an enemy force's side, or flank, to achieve an advantageous position over...
- Marne in September 1914, Allied and German forces unsuccessfully tried to outflank each other, a series of manoeuvres later known as the "Race to the Sea"...
- series of attacks in Italy against the line at Monte C****ino and tried to outflank it with landings at Anzio. On 27 January 1944, Soviet troops launched a...
- western Long Island. On August 27 at the Battle of Long Island, Howe outflanked Washington and forced him back to Brooklyn Heights, but he did not attempt...
- being outflanked and they withdrew from the defensive lines drawn up across Belgium. They did not pull back fast enough to prevent them being outflanked by...
- all the police forces of the German states under his control. Göring outflanked him by removing the Prussian political and intelligence departments from...
- Kennedy somehow became a liberal icon, an antiwar visionary who tried to outflank Lyndon Johnson's Great Society from the left. On Kennedy's ideological...
- program and the Zapatistas' Plan of Ayala, the constitution became a way to outflank the two opposing revolutionary factions. Carranza was elected president...
- after a German attack had pierced the line, but the Polish defenders outflanked them. By 8 September, one of Reichenau's armoured corps, having advanced...