Their long troop columns were slow and easily ambushed by the elusive Xhosa gunmen.

Its targets included airfields, railway communications, rest billets and troop columns, and during some nine months of operational service it dropped 247 tons of bombs.

On the other hand, the professional troop columns were initially much slower and less mobile than the local settler militias, and had considerably less local knowledge.

It also considered the slow-moving British troop columns to be absurdly unsuitable for frontier warfare - immobile, ineffective and expensive.

They were eluded, led astray and ambushed time and time again, as the rebels easily slipped past their slow-moving troop columns.

In the Anglo-Zulu War the disastrous use of Britain's slow-moving troop columns was once again demonstrated at Isandlwana.

A Pakistani troop column from Jessore had reached the city after brushing aside two clumsy ambushes by a mixed force of volunteers and police on March 28.

ZSU-23-4 SPAAGs are divided evenly along the troop columns on the march.

Overhead German warplanes roared toward their targets: Polish troop columns and ammunition dumps, bridges, railroads and open cities.

As the trumpeter sounded the charge, San Martin's troop column charged the battalion armed with spears and sabers followed by that of Cpt.