Sentence examples for enemy trench from inspiring English sources

At first it was successful, capturing the enemy trench, but the Germans counter-attacked and his company was cut off.

It is as if he is subconsciously predisposed to find an enemy trench and battle from there.

The London Gazette, on 14 December 1918, reported he was honoured "for most conspicuous bravery, skilful command and devotion to duty during the period 24th to 26th September 1918, when holding, with his platoon, an advance post established in a newly-captured enemy trench north-west of Lens".

A similar raid was made against an enemy trench to the left of our line which cost the Turks 200 casualties, as was afterwards ascertained".

Then, after absorbing multiple wounds from the grenade blast, Sabo attacked the enemy trench, killing two soldiers with a grenade of his own, and helped his injured ally to the shelter of a nearby treeline.

During that time, she destroyed railway bridges and a small shipyard while conducting call-fire missions on enemy command posts, bunkers, and personnel shelters, making numerous cuts on enemy trench lines in the process.

They detail lessons in basic infantry techniques, such as assaulting enemy trenches and firing mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.

However, Mr. Keegan teases out the Civil War's parallels with World War I with great aplomb, from how troops were mobilized through methods of attacking enemy trenches.

An intelligence report later that week reflects the eerie nervousness of the soldiers keeping watch at night and hearing every movement in the enemy trenches.

"When armchair generals glibly criticise them for continuing to mount attacks on enemy trenches, we have to ask, 'Why did they continue?' They did so because no one knew of any alternative".

While rifles were shot at those extreme ranges, they could not equal the destructive power of artillery and machine guns, and they were too cumbersome and powerful for offensive assaults on enemy trenches.