These extra troops, along with 4,000 of his reserve troops, went to support the broken ranks of the Rohillas on the right.

Carolin's men charged, the main body of the army, flowing like water up the hill and into the broken ranks of the horsemen.

One of the men there had dropped his energy rifle and broken ranks.

On either side, the slopes were loosely covered by the broken ranks of the Durotriges, watching in silence as the square trudged past.

The losses would certainly have been greater had not the troops, under the extreme duress of the Maxims, used their common sense and broken ranks.

The cavalry was closing on the village's flanks, looking for broken ranks to charge and decimate.

The great capitalist party broke into two, and the other capitalist party, the Democratic, walked through the broken ranks of the enemy.

Despite the withering fire the broken ranks of the 23rdMississippi reached the summit with a cheer.

But Bruenor didn't move, not an inch, until the others had all broken ranks.

Another possibility is that they ran up to the 200 meter-mark in broken ranks, and then reformed for the march into battle from there.