An area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies.
1 The bridgehead of Radymno consisted of a threefold line of field works.
2 Cadorna agreed, and brought the Second Army into play, attacking the Plava bridgehead .
3 They fear Islamist militants could use central Asia as a bridgehead into Russia.
4 Using Society brothers for targets. He saw dust from far beyond the bridgehead .
5 They have a bridgehead in London and the south-east of England.
6 I had been up the river to the bridgehead at Plava.
7 What of the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and Prince Auersperg?
8 One thousand Austrians were captured at the bridgehead , but the garrison succeeded in escaping.
9 Pyongyang has claimed the wall offers the South a bridgehead into the North's territory.
10 Again the initial bombardment was highly effective, smashing the Italian cordon around the bridgehead .
11 On his own initiative, Wurm prepared a bridgehead around Gorizia.
12 Blank it was, except for a gate near the bridgehead .
13 Off to establish a human bridgehead in the Oort cloud.
14 Austria, a neutral European Union member, was for centuries a bridgehead for Iran to Europe.
15 The sale could also present American operators with the opportunity to establish a European bridgehead .
16 The weakest section of the front was strategically the most important, around the Tolmein bridgehead .
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