He apprehended that Carleton might make an attack upon Ticonderoga as soon as he could cross Lake Champlain on the ice.
Marion sallied forth from his covert just before daybreak to make an attack upon one of these detachments, when, to his surprise, he found himself close upon the British camp.
There was also an attack upon Hancock's and Burnside's corps at the same time; but it was feeble and probably only intended to relieve Anderson who was being pressed by Wright and Smith.
With these and such additions as I can give you from elsewhere, lose no time in making a demonstration, to be followed by an attack upon Mobile.
That if Wellington's system of deployed lines and musketry-fire be excellent for the defense, it would be difficult ever to employ it in an attack upon an enemy in position.
Only a small remnant of the force which followed either King reached Palestine; and the only offensive operation undertaken--an attack upon Damascus--had to be abandoned.
But such an expedition once started might have been diverted, as indeed happened a few years later, for an attack upon Constantinople, which should lead to the union of both empires under the ambitious Hohenstaufen.
On the 13th of March, the Indians, in a strong party four hundred in number, made an attack upon Groton.
His master had gone with a war party to make an attack upon Medfield, and his mistress, with woman's tender heart, had brought him to see his mother.
Eleven days after the destruction of Lancaster, on the 21st of February, the Indians made anattack upon Medfield.
On the ninth of April a small party made an attack upon Bridgewater.
They succeeded in surprising those of Sebastiani, and did him a good deal of mischief in an attack upon Jukowo.
The magnitude of the evil at first appalled him; he felt it to be his duty to condemn it, but for a time even his strong spirit faltered and turned pale in contemplation of the consequences to be apprehended from an attack upon it.
THE shapings of our heavens are the modifications of our constitution," said Charles Lamb, in his reply to Southey's attack upon him in the Quarterly Review.
The Zulus surrounded the place closely, but never ventured upon any sustained attack upon it.
The first operation undertaken by Sir Garnet Wolseley was an attack upon several of the villages near Elmina, occupied by the Ashantis.
Three years later Colonel John March, supported by a company of volunteers from Massachusetts, made an attack upon Acadia, which proved abortive.
The expedition against Quebec, however, was only a part of a general plan of attack upon Canada, and in this the settlers showed some activity under the leadership of the Commander-in-Chief General Amherst.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attack upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
