Sentence examples for columns of attack from inspiring English sources

Dumouriez organized eight columns of attack.

On the far right, Duke was pressed hard by columns of attacking Union soldiers.

After a smashing victory at Racławice (April 4), won by the scythe-bearing formations under Kościuszko's personal command, special new battle tactics were developed based on columns of men attacking on the run and backed by artillery fire.

The Germans deployed two columns to attack north from Livno.

Confederate general-in-chief Joseph E. Johnston, who sought to capitalize on the bifurcation of McClellan's army, led three columns of soldiers to attack that day in what would be known as the Battle of Seven Pines.

He further assisted Waugh in 1932 by giving him space in the column to attack the editor of the Catholic journal The Tablet, after it had denounced Waugh's Black Mischief as blasphemous.

Henrys became aware of a Zaian presence at el Bordj and sent a column to attack them on 31 June.

The artillery heralded the start of a Turkish counter-attack; columns of troops appeared over the top of Battleship Hill and on the flanks and attacked the ANZAC lines.

Over on the Caucus, I just posted this column about why this line of attack might be more damaging to Romney than all the others.

During a seesaw battle for the city of Huambo, in 1993, for example, Mr. Savimbi shelled the city of 400,000 for weeks to recapture it from the government, and reportedly attacked columns of refugees from his own ethnic group.

Retreating columns of the Yildirim Army Group were attacked during the battle for the Jisr ed Damieh bridge, and several fords to the south were also captured, closing this line of retreat.