They captured many Germans in fierce hand-to-hand fighting in the First World War.
At a 1995 state-court hearing on whether Mr. Porter was entitled to a new sentencing, his company commander testified about the " horrifying experiences" Mr. Porter had endured, including a "fierce hand-to-hand fight with the Chinese" and a two-day battle in which his company suffered casualties of more than 50percentt.
Amid fierce hand-to-hand fighting the Australians cleared the Chinese from the trenches, losing three men.
Troops of the Turkish Brigade, attached to the 25th Infantry Division, defended Outposts Berlin, Vegas, Carson, and Elko in fierce hand-to-hand combat.
The defending warriors were described by Alvarado as engaging in fierce hand-to-hand combat using spears, stakes and poisoned arrows.
During the thick of the fierce hand-to-hand fighting that followed, Steuart was forced to surrender to Colonel James A. Beaver of the 148th Pennsylvania Infantry.
After fierce hand-to-hand combat, most of the Muslims managed to withdraw and regroup higher up on the slopes of Uhud.
Fierce hand-to-hand fighting gradually forced the French towards the village centre, in and around the walled churchyard which had been prepared for defence.
But even more breathtaking than idyllic Themyscira were its inhabitants – a community of Amazonian women engaged in fierce hand-to-hand battle practice.
The special election in New York's 23rd was fierce, hand-to-hand ideological combat with a platoon of national figures, millions of dollars and extraordinary media scrutiny.
Further attacks were mounted by the Ottomans all along the Australian line after 3 00 p.m., but after dark they focused their efforts on the 7th Battalion's position in the south; there the Ottomans succeeded in taking part of the Australian line late in the night, and fierce hand-to-hand fighting followed until early in the morning of 9 August as the Australians retook these positions.
