Both Uses of
battalion
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- He was being called to command a battalion in Korea and had to leave the next day.†
p. 386.9 *battalion = large group of soldiers
- Before dawn on December 7, 1950, Harris stood on a frozen Korean mountain with his weary battalion, which had seen such horrendous fighting that it had lost three-quarters of its men.†
p. 386.9
Definition:
a large group of soldiers -- especially an army unit consisting of a headquarters and at least three companies