To placate the Paris population an advance was made on Versailles with battalions largely composed of National Guards.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
Beneath these the climbing pines rolled down in battalions to the brink of a vast hollow, in the black depths of which the river roared far below.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
We struck the enemy a heavy blow, and the capture of the Vimy Ridge by the Canadians and the Highland Division was as wonderful as the great thrust by English and Scottish battalions along the valley of the Scarpe across the Arras-Cambrai road.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs