Both Uses
battalion
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- He'd flown tanks, helicopters, general cargo, once a whole battalion of troops on his—he thought of the aircraft as his—Galaxy before.†
Chpt 9. *battalion = large group of soldiers
- He had fought his way out of that trap, and later another at Vyasma, and had commanded a battalion spearheading Zhukov's counterblow from the suburbs of Moscow.†
Chpt 12.
Definitions:
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(1)
(battalion) a large group of soldiers -- especially an army unit consisting of a headquarters and at least three companies
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)