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noun (forced marches)
  1. (military) Soldiers, especially infantry, being made to move at a speed that would normally tire them excessively, to meet a military necessity.
1885 I did not believe this possible because of the distance and the condition of the roads, which was bad; besides, troops after a of twenty miles are not in a good condition for fighting the moment they get through. " Ulysses S. Grant, Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant'' http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=327093481&tag=Grant,+Ulysses+S.+(Ulysses+Simpson),+1822-1885.:+Personal+memoirs+of+U.S.+Grant,+Volume+I,+1885&query=forced+march&id=GraPers Chapter 28.

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