1. battalion - Noun
2. battalion - Verb
A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.
To form into battalions.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNever send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home. Robert Graves
In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. J. F. C. Fuller
Sir, give me a single battalion of the Royal Carabineers and I will drive these upstarts into the sea. Pietro Badoglio
I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants. It is the excitement of becoming-always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again-but always trying and always gaining. Lyndon B. Johnson
Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission. Patrick MacGill