Sentence examples for a dawn attack from inspiring English sources

The gains of the first day made it impossible for a man of Van Dorn's temperament to consider withdrawing, and he ordered a dawn attack.

We know what advocates write about judges: An appearance before Lord Goddard was more troublesome to the stomach than a dawn attack on a heavily defended enemy position.

A dawn attack on a checkpoint in eastern Ukraine has left at least 14 soldiers dead, in the worst loss of life for government forces to date.

In the summer of 1669, several hundred Mohican warriors launched a dawn attack on Caughnawaga.

One week after Howe entered Philadelphia, on 4 October, Washington made a dawn attack on the British garrison at Germantown.

At the Selle, Pinney organised a dawn attack with improvised bridges, allowing the 33rd to force a bridgehead and successfully clear the opposing bank in a short time.

The flotilla leader led four of her half-sisters down Ofotfjord in a surprise dawn attack on Narvik harbour during a blinding snowstorm.

British troops today made a surprise dawn attack on the jungle base of a renegade guerrilla gang in Sierra Leone and in a 90-minute gun battle freed seven soldiers who had been taken hostage there last month, the Ministry of Defense said.

Its military has long experience of battling guerrillas in Northern Ireland, hunting down war-crimes suspects in Bosnia and carrying out operations in nations like Sierra Leone, where British troops last year staged a daring dawn attack on the jungle base of renegade guerrillas to rescue seven British soldiers held hostage.

He ordered Walker to carry out a full-scale dawn attack on the harbor's shipping before it could depart.

I want to spotlight the field to give it a late afternoon or dawn attack atmosphere.