Flank march

Related to Flank march: outflank

a march made parallel or obliquely to an enemy's position, in order to turn it or to attack him on the flank.

See also: Flank

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in classic literature ?

While Moreau and Montgomery and their bestial rabble chased me through the island, might I not go round the beach until I came to their enclosure,--make a flank march upon them, in fact, and then with a rock lugged out of their loosely-built wall, perhaps, smash in the lock of the smaller door and see what I could find(knife, pistol, or what not) to fight them with when they returned?

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Howard's masterly flank march humbugging the Scottish king and placing his underfed forces between the Scots and the Tweed had been a masterstroke, but it could still end in disaster.

How Scottish hopes ended in slaughter on a damp day in Northumberland

Lee, for instance, had a far too "casual attitude about maps"; and Jackson "made a grave mistake" in not issuing preparatory orders to his division commanders the night before his stunning flank march (139, 140).