Sentence examples for commenced an attack from inspiring English sources

A few months later, the Allies commenced an attack of their own in Egypt, dislodging the Axis forces and beginning a drive west across Libya.

It would have been impossible to have commenced an attack much earlier than it occurred, and it is doubtful that the Confederacy could have placed the attack in any more secure hands than General Longstreet".

Duncans crew, however, thinking that Farenholt and Laffey were commencing an attack on the Japanese warships, increased speed to launch a solitary torpedo attack on Gotō's force without telling Scott what they were doing.

Almost immediately, the Partisan 3rd Corps commenced an offensive, attacking II/28 at Srebrnik.

Wellington recorded in his dispatches that at "about ten o'clock [Napoleon] commenced a furious attack upon our post at Hougoumont".

"For the record, my intervention with RTE staff at the Westmeath match in question was to ascertain if they had full footage of the incident which commenced with an attack on one of my players, Liam Watson.

Dukan suggests, for instance, that his regimen (basically a modified Atkins diet, commencing with an "attack phase" in which one can eat only protein and oat bran) could help rescue the French economy.

Nearly simultaneously, the JNA commenced a tank and mortar attack against Stankovac and the river crossing at Šišinec.

("The heavily armored cavalry... commenced the attack in a chorus of 'Allahu akbar' "—"God is great"—"tearing up the hill from the Roman road in a nimbus of nostril steam from their mounts behind volleys of arrows").

("The heavily armored cavalry... commenced the attack in a chorus of 'Allahu akbar' " — "God is great" — "tearing up the hill from the Roman road in a nimbus of nostril steam from their mounts behind volleys of arrows").

On 1 March about 27,000 Iraqi troops commenced their attack on Tikrit, a city 150km (93 miles) north of Baghdad that has been occupied by Islamic State (IS) since June 2014.