Advance Party

An advance party is a group set ahead of a military force to perform reconnaissance or secure a position.

The term Advance Party can also refer to:

  • Advance Party (film series), a projected trilogy of films that are Scottish/Danish coproductions, of which the first is Red Road
  • Advance Party (religious movement), a one part of Brahma Kumaris spiritual family.

Famous quotes containing the words advance and/or party:

    “Some ne’er advance a judgment of their own,
    But catch the spreading notion of the town;”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “Last night, party at Lansdowne-House. Tonight, party at Lady Charlotte Greville’s—deplorable waste of time, and something of temper. Nothing imparted—nothing acquired—talking without ideas—if any thing like thought in my mind, it was not on the subjects on which we were gabbling. Heigho!—and in this way half London pass what is called life.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)