Sentence examples for on the bridgehead from inspiring English sources

Kollowrat's "timid and badly coordinated" attack on the bridgehead failed.

A redoubt was quickly strengthened on the bridgehead by the Spanish sappers, who, protected by the Duke of Osuna and his cavalry, also widened the trenches which connected it with Fort San Cristóbal, the garrison of which was being strengthened every day along a strongly defended communication road.

The German battle group destroyed the eastern tip of the bridgehead on 6 April.

On 5 February, Fürstenberg finally took possession of the bridgehead.

Operation Badr called for an enlargement of the bridgeheads on October 8.

In addition, the hydroxy group attached to the bridgehead carbon was assigned as β-oriented, based on ring junction inferred by the correlations of H-13/Me-16 H-13/Me-16 H-13/Me-16

With no river crossing available, the Indian engineers rushed to build a bridge across the Moro which was completed on 9 December and allowed infantry and supporting armour to cross and expand the bridgehead on the far bank.

His actions secured the bridgehead on the Savio River in Italy.

Tuvia Raviv's armored brigade began its diversionary attack against the 16th Division's bridgehead at 5 00 PM on October 15, striking at the bridgehead's center from the east, after a fire preparation.

In this action of the War of the First Coalition, the French drove the Swabians from their positions in Kehl and subsequently controlled the bridgehead on both sides of the Rhine.

During late evening the men of the 159th Infantry Brigade (11th Armoured Division) were transported in trucks through the narrow "Scottish Corridor" to Tourville, where they dismounted and crossed the Odon on foot to reinforce the bridgehead.