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Example sentences for "attack him"

  • It was flanked on one side by high cliffs and on the other by impassable ravines, which position compelled the enemy to attack him in front.

  • His presence in the State was intolerable to the Union forces, and Buell, finding a strong army under his command, set out to attack him.

  • Washington decided to march southward and capture Yorktown and Cornwallis, meanwhile keeping Clinton under the belief that he meant to attack him.

  • St. Leger persisted in his siege of the fort, and Benedict Arnold marched with a brigade to attack him.

  • Lincoln placed the judges in their seats, and then, when the rioters were about to attack him, he gave them a volley.

  • A messenger breaks in upon Acomat's festivities with the news that Soldan was slain, and Argon released and marching to attack him.

  • Tulabugha quarrelled with old Noghai and was preparing to attack him.

  • General Arnold was at Portsmouth in Virginia; Washington formed the project of combining with the French to attack him, and take the garrison.

  • The French column on this side then divided into two portions; one endeavoured to turn Baird's right and enter the valley behind the British position, while the other climbed the hill to attack him in front.

  • When with the 10th Hussars Lord Paget arrived in the rear of the village, he found six hundred French dragoons drawn up and ready to attack him.

  • Nothing could have suited the British commander better than that Junot should attack him, for the position of Vimiera was strong.

  • It had been his intention to make a stand at Richmond, but there were too many troops marching to attack him.

  • He also ordered Schoepff to attack him in front.

  • General Thomas was ordered in November to concentrate his command in order to be prepared for any movement Zollicoffer might make, and, if necessary, to attack him in his camp.

  • Pass the word along for all hands to keep their left shoulders against the cliff, and there is no fear," he whispered to Small, who followed him closely with his drawn cutlass, ready to guard him from any who might attack him.

  • When the Monguls at length came to attack him, he beat them off in the first instance, but he was obliged soon afterward to leave the field and continue his retreat.

  • This he succeeded in doing; and, after reaching the shore, he was able to form his men in array, on an elevated piece of ground, before Elak could bring up a sufficient number of men to attack him.

  • Arrived in the neighborhood of Fersen's position he found that Poninsky had not yet come up; and the Russian commander, overjoyed at this circumstance, resolved immediately to attack him.

  • After providing for the safety of his numerous prisoners, Forster pushed down the river toward Lachine, but, learning that Arnold was advancing to attack him with a force treble his own number, he halted and prepared for action.

  • We can't all go in there to attack him, for he would be sure to catch some of us.

  • You've got the only gun in the party, and, of course, you are the one to attack him.

  • He was too much of a coward to attack him openly, and so he slipped up and knocked him down with the butt of my rifle.

  • Let that nation which was mad enough to attack him, come--let them bring their cohorts of homicides.

  • Now was the time to attack him, and his enemies took advantage of it.

  • Not only was Washington behind him and on his flank but General Gates was in front marching from the north to attack him when he should try to cross the Raritan River.

  • Instead of attacking the British he allowed them to attack him.

  • Though he knew that Washington was likely to attack him he did not entrench his army as he desired the attack to be made.

  • The plan was to cross the Brandywine some ten miles above where Washington was posted and to attack him in the rear.

  • He then proceeded, without stopping, until he came off another city called Pate, from which eight large zambuks came out to attack him.

  • Cavendish obtained information from an Indian that a party of sixty soldiers had landed from Guaiaquil to attack him.

  • Redwald, embracing more generous resolutions, thought it safest to prevent Adelfrid, before that prince was aware of his intention, and to attack him while he was yet unprepared for defence.

  • During the afternoon the enemy, approaching from the direction of Warrenton down the turnpike toward Alexandria, exposed his left flank, and General Jackson determined to attack him.

  • At the same time it became necessary for us to move back for want of provisions and forage, or to attack him in his position with the hope of driving him from it.

  • Had General Lee been able to compel the enemy to attack him in position, I think we should have had a complete victory, and the testimony of General Meade quoted above shows that he was not at all inclined to make the experiment.

  • As General Shields made no movement to renew the action of the 8th, General Jackson determined to attack him on the 9th.

  • While Dante lurks there, a demon, descrying him, is about to attack him, but Virgil so vehemently proclaims they are here by Heaven's will that the evil spirit drops his fork and becomes powerless to harm them.

  • The wary Moorish king consented, but only on condition Alfonso would promise never to attack him or his sons, should he become king.

  • When Washington heard of Clinton's position he ordered Lee to prepare a plan to attack him as soon as he resumed his march, unless it should prove that there were strong reasons for his not doing so.

  • He had been reinforced by McDougall's brigade and other troops; and learning that Howe had detached a portion of his command to reduce the forts on the Delaware, he determined to attack him at Germantown.

  • Not wishing to attack him in such a strong position, Phillips retired down the river, followed by the Americans.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attack from; attack him; attack the; attack them; attack upon; attacked them; fire from; fought like; four columns; further north; general exercise; house and; human thought; kind reader; laid his; little white; material goods; might have been the; more eligible; nice colour; political institutions; spectral evidence; standard gauge; supreme importance; waste away; white chalk