Suddenly abandoning Macedonia, however, he launched an unsuccessful attack on Sparta to restore Cleonymus (272).
Hawkins died the night before an unsuccessful attack on Puerto Rico.
He was seriously wounded in an unsuccessful attack on Savannah, Georgia (September October 1779), and returned to France with his squadron.
In addition, in August 2009, a member of A.Q.A.P. blew himself up in Saudi Arabia in an unsuccessful attack against Mohammed bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia's counterterrorism chief.
And in eastern Nangarhar Province, eight Taliban insurgents were killed in an unsuccessful attack on the NATO air base in the provincial capital of Jalalabad, Afghan officials said.
In August 1697 he made an unsuccessful attack on ships sailing with Mocha coffee from Yemen but later took several small ships.
In 1998, Clinton authorized a notoriously unsuccessful attack against bin Laden which happened to coincide with his deposition on Monica Lewinsky.
Enmity between local Orthodox and Catholic clerics stood in his way, as did Hungary's unsuccessful attack on Serbia in 1354, which upset the work of the papal legation.
Hitler concentrated all efforts on this offensive without regard to the risk that an unsuccessful attack would leave him without reserves to maintain any subsequent defense of his long front.
Pompeii is first mentioned in history in 310 bce, when, during the Second Samnite War, a Roman fleet landed at the Sarnus port of Pompeii and from there made an unsuccessful attack on the neighbouring city of Nuceria.
Kreon decrees that Antigone's traitorous brother Polyneikes, dead after an unsuccessful attack on Thebes, should be left "to lie unwept and / unburied sweet sorrymeat for the little lusts / of birds".
