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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.
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 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.
Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is undeniable that Reagan's ability to project anger was highly attractive to his most passionate supporters on the far right -- and crucial to his political success.
And while a rebel assault on the right was repulsed, the ensuing counterattack on the left broke through, capturing the Union's artillery and breaking Canby's already cautious will.
In 1854, during the Crimean War, an Anglo-French attack on Petropavlovsk was repulsed.
The Radomir Rebellion was short-lived, as the Agrarian-led assault on Sofia was repulsed by German and Macedonian forces that remained loyal to the tsar.
In the evening German attack on Ranville was repulsed with many German casualties.
The Bijapur attack on Seringapatam was repulsed in its entirety by the reigning Wodeyar of Mysore, with great losses to the invaders.
However, the Nationalists' attack on the capital was repulsed in fierce fighting between 8 and 23 November.
