Meanings of whole platoons in English

You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.

Sometimes whole platoons would disappear, especially when a 'Jack Johnson' plunked into their middle.

A blaze of light shot from the redoubt, and whole platoons of the British fell.

We often find whole platoons of admiration-points stretching out in line, to give extraordinary emphasis to sentences already sufficiently forcible.

She saw the restless dead on every hill, the hellish rolling orange fire of gelatinous petroleum as it engulfed whole platoons of young men.

Whole platoons of goblins were walled up by rocks stacked against doors.

Whole platoons fell at once; their soldiers were seen trying to keep together under this terrible fire.

Lossing says: " Whole platoons were lain upon the earth, like grass by the mower's scythe."