forced march

noun

, Military.

1. any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.

forced march

noun

1. military a march in which normal needs are subordinated to the need for speed

Word History and Origins

Origin of forced march¹

First recorded in 1760–70

Example Sentences

Saving and paying for college is an endurance test, a forced march on an often 50-year parade, where strange numerical codes and senseless jumbles of letters mark a route that Waze can’t map.

From New York Times

He had just arrived by bus from Pirot on the Serbia-Bulgaria border, he said, after a gruelling 25-day forced march across Bulgaria.

From BBC

Janet, Reilley's daughter, remembers how her dad gave up alcohol when she was three, having used it to cope with the continued memories of surviving the crash, imprisonment and the forced march.

From BBC

Even though my hometown Greenwood, and county, Leflore, were named after the Choctaw chief who, with 1834's Treaty of the Dancing Rabbit, ceded Choctaw lands to the state of Mississippi, which led to thousands of Choctaws dying on the forced march to Oklahoma which became known as the Trail of Tears, at my school we learned that the Trail of Tears wasn't bad because God used it to convert many "Indians."

From Salon

“The final outcome being the seating of the actual delegate in the House would give some small measure of justice for those, including my own ancestors, who lost their lives during that forced march,” she added.

From New York Times