Sentence examples for enemy assault from inspiring English sources

A future enemy assault could kill not 6,000 people on American soil, but 600,000.

George H. Putnam remembered a contest among Union troops in Texas that was aborted by a surprise enemy assault.

But why, after all, should a large piece of Manhattan be permanently dedicated to an artistic representation of enemy assault?

The interiors were partitioned off by additional defensive works to facilitate battle even after the outer defenses had been penetrated by an enemy assault.

As December blew into Lithuania, the forest became a fortress of snow, as impregnable to filmmaking as it was to enemy assault 60 years ago.

We are heading for Masada, the cliff fortress built by King Herod to withstand an ultimate enemy assault and where, in A.D. 73, 960 Jewish zealots died by their own hand, rather than surrender to the Romans, whose battle camps remain outlined in the sand, next to the now empty parking lot.

Was his speech merely a cynical exercise in pre-empting enemy assaults?

For three hours, his men held off 7,000 Union troops, repulsing three major enemy assaults.

Nicolls and his men withstood 28 consecutive days of continuous enemy assaults on their positions.

What's more, we are admirably, if not perfectly, protected against such enemy assaults by our eminently capable defense establishment.

The 1st ROK Division troops were ordered off the positions on Queen, Bak, and Hill 179 when heavy enemy assaults divested them of their tactical value.