On seeing Páez's men move, the Spanish commander, Miguel de la Torre, orders one of his elite battalions, the Burgos, to reinforce and defend the north flank.

He was commander of the Breymann Grenadiers, an elite battalion hired into British service, and served under the command of John Burgoyne.

The Peltast corps was probably 5,000 strong, with an elite battalion of 2,000 called the Agema.

An elite battalion of paratroopers was reduced to a company size and was the only operational force in the entire military, the official said.

But villagers nearby said an elite battalion of government forces had carried out the massacre the previous month.

Last year, while documenting an elite battalion of six American soldiers on the front line in Afghanistan, he stepped on a landmine.

Looks like Lehmann's put in an elite battalion.

By March, Canada had its elite battalion, which returned to England to join the 6th Airborne Division as a unit of the Britain's 3rd Parachute Brigade.

Vann hoped to trap the Viet Cong inside the hamlets by blocking their retreat routes on all sides, and annihilate them using an elite battalion of South Vietnamese paratroopers.

The Truth Commission found that the elite battalion had carried out a massacre.