forced march

English

Noun

forced march (plural forced marches)

1. (military) 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.
   • 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, chapter 28, in Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1914, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 4, in The Scouts of Stonewall:

     [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.

   • 2001 June 24, Howard Chua-Eoan, “War of the Worlds”, in Time, retrieved 8 August 2013:

     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.

Translations

military march of excessive speed

• Danish: ilmarch c
• Dutch: geforceerde mars m
• Finnish: pikamarssi
• French: marche forcée (fr) f
• German: Eilmarsch (de) m
• Hungarian: erőltetett menet
• Polish: forsowny marsz m
• Portuguese: marcha forçada
• Romanian: marș forțat (ro) n
• Serbo-Croatian: forsirani marš m

See also

• loaded march
• death march
• just march