By nightfall, side-streets off the march route recalled the most dramatic scenes of agitation after the disputed presidential election of 2009, with protesters burning rubbish bins and taunting the security forces.
There was just enough time before nightfall to storm the position on its north side (mainly up the steepest part of the slope immediately north of Gustavus's fort), but not enough time to develop simultaneous attacks from other sides.
Several Israeli officers confirmed that virtually all the shooting from the Palestinian side occurred after nightfall.
By nightfall, it was unclear which side had the upper hand, with some army officers saying they had recaptured the town.
The village was calm by nightfall, after religious leaders from both sides persuaded their followers to end the confrontation.
After pausing by the side of the road until nightfall, the convoy crossed into Ukrainian territory, using a rough dirt track and clearly crossing through a gap in a barbed wire fence that demarcates the border.
By nightfall, however, Iraq's leaders on both sides of the sectarian divide were scrambling to calm the situation.
Up to 30 fighters on both sides had been killed by nightfall, with the battle expected to rage throughout the weekend.
Yet he still loiters on the Mexican side of the fence, waiting for nightfall and another chance to cross.
We meandered in the Kuznetsk Basin for most of a day and drove until past nightfall in order to camp on the other side.
IN THE spring of 1948, around March as he remembered it, Haidar Abdel Shafi found himself at nightfall, waiting, in a small mud hut by the side of the main road in Deir al-Balah.
