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WOTD 2026-07-29: vanguard (en.wiktionary.org)

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vanguard n 🔊

(military) The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.
(by extension) The person or people at the forefront of a group or movement.

☞ Yesterday, July 28, was the date on which World War I started in 1914.

Illustration for vanguard 1

Hohenfriedeberg - Attack of Prussian Infantry - 1745.jpg

Illustration for vanguard 2

2nd and 3rd Lithuanian Vanguard Regiments (1775).jpg

The Attack of the Prussian Infantry at the Battle of Hohenfriedberg (c. 1913) by Carl Röchling, depicting infantry forming the vanguard in 1745 (sense 1)

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