That night, he formed a defensive position, and beat off a small Japanese counterattack.
A much smaller counterattack managed to add some cheers to the mix, creating a political cacophony underlining just how strange a situation Brazil faces.
German resistance was fierce, as they launched small counterattacks and used armor to halt American movements.
Small counterattacks by units of the 140th and 141st British Brigades took place on 22 May but did not manage to change the situation.
The Germans, on the other hand, had spent the day fighting holding actions in both sectors, launching small counterattacks to whittle away at Soviet offensive potential, while continuously moving up reinforcements from the south, including several aircraft squadrons transferred from the Crimea.
But the drumbeat from Democrats has set off a counterattack from a small but powerful group of jet manufacturers and users, who have contributed millions of dollars over the years to lawmakers from both parties.
3rd Battalion's commander, LtCol Gary Wilder, believed he was only facing a small North Vietnamese unit and counterattacked.
Ron Weiser, the Michigan Republican chairman, noted that Mr. Clinton drew a small crowd in Detroit on Sunday but the party mounted no counterattack.
By the end of the day they were holding onto a small pocket on the heights of the Pointe, and the Germans were counterattacking.
Both Syngenta and Bayer seem to have prepared for a counterattack: They funded another study, released one day before EFSA's, by the Humboldt Forum for Food and Agriculture, a small think tank funded by Bayer CropScience and other businesses.
