Nice bit of a pincer movement coming from the right.
The two parties moved towards each other on the peninsula in a pincer movement.
Caught in a pincer movement, Hamilcar started to march north.
They were advancing on him, slowly, closing in a pincer movement.
The rest would be fanning out to catch him in a pincer movement.
The details for this pincer movement had all been carefully thought through.
I still wasn't quite sure, but it had looked very like a sudden pincer movement.
His general plan called for a pincer movement on the Siamese capital from the north and the south.
The rebel band would find itself caught in a pincer movement.
He turned again, knowing that the two men were trying to circle him, coming in a pincer movement.
Flournoy's pursuit, like Taylor's double envelopment near the river's edge, was carried out in textbook fashion.
Valens and two-thirds of his army, about 40,000 men, were killed when trapped in a double envelopment.
At 15:00, they engaged the surprised Chinese, conducting a double envelopment supported by continued artillery fire.
Such a double envelopment will hem his troops in, making it almost impossible for them to change formation.
The pincer movement or double envelopment is a military maneuver.
In a double envelopment, the center immobilizes the enemy force, while the enveloping forces move against its flanks.
At the same time orders were given to carry out the general plan for double envelopment next day, August 26.
It is known from Rehnskiöld's personal journals that he had intended a double envelopment from the beginning.
His plan was to attack the British at night with four columns from different directions with the goal of creating a double envelopment.
Pleasonton's attack plan called for a double envelopment of the enemy.