Sentence examples for british attack from inspiring English sources

The first British attack against Kandy in 1803 was a failure.

The British attack was launched from Ypres on October 19, the German thrust the next day.

Furneaux commanded the Syren in the British attack on Charleston, S.C. (June 28 , 1776.

A military company mustered there during the War of 1812 to defend against British attack.

Sure enough, a British attack failed, allowing American forces to encircle and defeat the British on Oct. 7.

The subsidiary British attack by the XIII Corps in the south had meanwhile met similar trouble and was abandoned.

He held the fort against heavy British attack on June 28, and it was named Fort Moultrie in his honour.

The idea came to him after seeing the play Kursk, set on board a British attack submarine.

There, however, Rommel was at last, albeit meagrely, reinforced; and, after repulsing a British attack on December 26, he prepared a counteroffensive.

At the outbreak of war, Lettow-Vorbeck had been commander of a small garrison in Tanganyika, which came under British attack at Tanga in November 1914.

He piloted a Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber in the 1960 movie "Sink the Bismarck!" reprising the British attack on that German battleship in World War II.