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forced march en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A movement on foot by soldiers or prisoners of war, who must, in order to satisfy a military requirement, travel at a speed or in adverse conditions that would normally tire them excessively.
   • [M]any of their leaders could not yet wholly believe that Jackson and his army, making a forced march in the dead of winter, were at hand. 1914, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 4, in The Scouts of Stonewall:
   • American and Filipino prisoners from the fall of Corregidor in 1942 were refused food and water on a six-day, 97-km forced march to their place of confinement at Camp O'Donnell. 2001 June 24, Howard Chua-Eoan, “War of the Worlds”, in Time, retrieved 08 Aug 2013:
   • I did not believe this possible because of the distance and the condition of the roads, which was bad; besides, troops after a forced march of twenty miles are not in a good condition for fighting the moment they get through. 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, chapter 28, in Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant^(http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=327093481&tag=Grant,+Ulysses+S.+(Ulysses+Simpson),+1822-1885.:+Personal+memoirs+of+U.S.+Grant,+Volume+I,+1885&query=forced+march&id=GraPers):

Forms

Relateds

just march · loaded march · death march

Translations (11)

sh forsirani marš (military march of excessive speed) · pt marcha forçada (military march of excessive speed) · ru марш-бросо́к (military march of excessive speed) · ro marș forțat (military march of excessive speed) · pl forsowny marsz (military march of excessive speed) · hu erőltetett menet (military march of excessive speed) · de Eilmarsch (military march of excessive speed) · nl geforceerde mars (military march of excessive speed) · da ilmarch (military march of excessive speed) · fi pikamarssi (military march of excessive speed) · fr marche forcée (military march of excessive speed)