Crossword-Solution: VANGUARDS 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

What is the Flag of England? Winds of the World, declare! The North Wind blew: -- “From Bergen my steel-shod vanguards go; I chase your lazy whalers home from the Disko floe; By the great North Lights above me I work the will of God, And the liner splits on the ice-field or the Dogger fills with cod.

Here’s an end of every trail--they shall not speak again! They that called the hunting-cry--they that followed fast-- (For Chil! Look you, for Chil!) They that bade the sambhur wheel, or pinned him as he passed-- (Chil! Vanguards of Chil!) They that lagged behind the scent--they that ran before, They that shunned the level horn--they that overbore.

The services assigned to such vanguards range also from those of mere observation to an offer of opposition or resistance to the enemy, and this opposition may not only be to give the main body of the army the time which it requires to prepare for battle, but also to make the enemy develop his plans, and intentions, which consequently makes the observation far more important.

Here were already some of the wider spaced vanguards of that wood; but here, too, a peculiar circumstance struck him.

General Carrel's brigade, separated from its division, retreated continually, fighting each day, but remaining almost intact, thanks to the vigilance and agility of Lieutenant Lare, who seemed to be everywhere at the same moment, baffling all the enemy's cunning, frustrating their plans, misleading their Uhlans and killing their vanguards.