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- A rearguard or rear security is a part of a military force that protects it from attack from the rear, either during an advance or withdrawal. The term...
- Rearguard Falls is located in Rearguard Falls Provincial Park on the Fraser River in British Columbia. The falls are located 115 km (71 mi) downstream...
- Mount Rearguard (12,209 feet (3,721 m)) is in the Beartooth Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana. The peak is one of the tallest in the Beartooth Mountains...
- Look up rearguard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A rearguard is a military detachment protecting the rear of a larger military formation, especially...
- Rearguard Mountain is a 2,744-metre (9,003-foot) summit located within Mount Robson Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Rainbow...
- began badly for the Americans when Lee botched an attack on the British rearguard at Monmouth Court House. A counter-attack by the main British column forced...
- Rearguard Falls Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, protecting Rearguard Falls on the Fraser River. It is located just above...
- contrast to arrière-garde, which in its original military sense refers to a rearguard force that protects the advance-guard. The term was less frequently used...
- The Rearguard Affair of Étreux was fought at Étreux by the British Expeditionary Force during the Great Retreat on the Western Front in 1914. The German...
- the French rearguard ("in incomparable number and still fresh"). Le Fèvre and Wavrin similarly say that it was signs of the French rearguard regrouping...