Sentence examples for commencing an attack from inspiring English sources

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.

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".

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.

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.

International forces are commencing a second night of attacks on Libya, under a UN resolution to enforce a no-fly zone.

In 1370 the French made a successful attack on Portsmouth, commencing a new sequence of raids along the English coast.

The Westminster attacker apparently sent a WhatsApp message minutes before commencing the attack saying he was waging jihad in revenge for Western foreign policy.

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