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:
“I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“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)