Sentence examples for repulse on from inspiring English sources

In the first eight weeks after Pearl Harbor, however, the major achievement of the Chinese was the definitive repulse, on January 15 , 1942 of a long-sustained Japanese drive against Ch'ang-sha, on the Canton–Han-k'ou railway.

The British inflicted a costly repulse on the Germans and then retired from the salient.

Despite their bloody repulse on May 19, Union troops were in high spirits, now well-fed with provisions they had foraged.

BIN JAWWAD, Libya — Rebel forces' westward charge was repulsed on Monday by a barrage of tank and artillery fire from forces guarding one of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's most crucial bastions of support, while the American military warned on Monday that the insurgents' rapid advances could quickly be reversed without continued coalition air support.

His soldiers pulled out of Benghazi after the initial bombing on Sunday, but a rebel attack on the strategically important town of Ajdabiya was repulsed on Monday.

The invaders succeeded in isolating the little Arctic port of Petsamo in the far north but were ignominiously repulsed on all of the fronts chosen for their advance.

These Shakespearean lines are from The Tempest, and a tempest was what Sutton's brave amateurs from the GM Vauxhall Conference had to endure once their brief, enthusiastic opening flurry had been repulsed on a damp, raw Norfolk afternoon.

Although, soundly repulsed on every suicidal charge, Ledlie was promoted after the battle for his tenacity.

Although the attempt to envelop Caen had been repulsed, on the right flank of XXX Corps, at the junction of the British Second and First U.S. armies, the possibility for a flanking manoeuvre had developed.

Shortly after the third repulse of the Confederates on the western wing, the 2nd Kentucky and 9th Tennessee regiments arrived from the Mauckport Road and joined the battle, giving the attackers a numerical superiority.

Renowns main armour belt was removed and a new 9-inch belt was installed, using up the remaining plates leftover from Almirante Cochrane as well as new armour, but installed about 3 feet higher than on Repulse to offset any increase in draught.