On the same day the coast front, the Carso Plateau, and the Tolmino bridgehead were shelled strongly by Italian artillery.
In a bitter struggle near Tarnopol, German divisions extended their gains by a powerful attack at the bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Sereth, which recently had been contested hotly.
Another successful French attack was delivered to the west, where the old German line stood on the south bank of the Aisne, which resulted in the capture of the important town of Vailly and a strong bridgehead near by.
But the Rumanians and the Russians were plainly outnumbered, at Dobric they were gradually pressed back, while at the bridgehead they were severely defeated.
During the night the Austrians under cover of darkness attempted surprise attacks upon positions on the bridgehead of Bodrez (on the Isonzo seven miles southwest of Tolmino), on the Vodice, Hill 592, and at Grazigna.
Had he taken this point he would have been able to flank the Rumanians at Cernavoda, capture the bridgehead there and so cut all communication between the Rumanians in Dobrudja with Rumania itself.
Nanesti forms the strategical center of the bridgehead of Fundeni and covers the great iron bridge across the Sereth, which is in the immediate vicinity of Nanesti.
At the expiration of fifteen years there will be evacuated:--the bridgehead of Mainz, the bridgehead of Kehl and the remainder of the German territory under occupation.
The actual capture of Mont St Quentin was entrusted to the Australians in whose path it lay, and the movements of the III Corps to their north formed a part of the scheme for widening the bridgehead once gained.
On the 26th February a detachment of the 2/2nd Londons proceeded to Nag Hamadi to guard the Nile bridgehead there.
And at every bridgehead you will show your pleasing countenance and your scarf of office to the guard and demand free passage for yourself and your family, as a representative member of the Committee of Public Safety.
Some reached the bridgehead even as Rateau made a dart forward, and two men were upon him before he succeeded in running very far.
On the twenty-fifth the Austrians followed them over, captured the bridgehead of Zagrody, the village of Nienovice and the Heights of Horodysko, while Von Mackensen's troops farther north captured Height 241.
On the Isonzo he would abandon the country west of the river line and make his stand on a fortified line to the east which touched the Isonzo only at Gorizia, where the Austrians held the bridgehead on the western bank.
They had been directed especially against the bridgehead of Darkehmen and the right wing of the German forces in the Paprodtk Hills.
The important bridgehead on the Vistula, Josefovo, was taken on the 1st of July.
The wounded were picked up, and by slow degrees Chakdara was approached, when the Bridgehead Maxim gun compelled the tribesmen to draw off.
When they reached the Bridgehead on the side of the river remote from the fort, the enemy began to turn and run.
Very well do I remember the bridgehead of Jussy as I saw it after the German retreat a year ago.
These posts, like the Sailly bridgehead defences, were mostly incomplete, and much work would have been required from the occupants in the short time that would have elapsed before an advancing enemy had come to grips with them.
Bac St. Maur bridgehead was not infrequently shelled, and our old Battalion Headquarters was found to have received a direct hit.
Meanwhile reconnoitring parties hurried round the Portuguese area, usually to be arrested as spies, while others went off to examine the Sailly bridgehead defences.
Meanwhile, the bombardment of the town and bridgehead had reached an incredible degree of violence.
The defences of the bridgehead of Dixmude were divided into two sectors, separated by the Caeskerke Road.
Simultaneously, the Germans were threatening the entire front, and in particular, the bridgehead of Nieuport.
The bridgehead of Schoorbakke, attacked from the rear was captured.
The bridgehead of Dixmude was held by the brigade of French Marines and a brigade of the Belgian 3rd Division.
The latter managed, however, to keep a bridgehead at the exit from the town.
At St. Mihiel the Germans were clinging to a bridgehead which they had captured as far back as September 1914.
On the morning of 2nd September the Russians were forced back for ten miles from the left bank of the river; but the bridgehead at Friedrichstadt still held out.
They then held the bridgehead at Nieuport and the whole western bank of the river.
Gaza may be considered the bridgeheadleading into or out of Egypt.
The concentration on the Auja bridgehead proceeded as rapidly as possible, for the Column had to move soon after midnight.
Early in the morning of the 22nd September, the 38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers captured the bridgehead at Umm es Shert.
Two sections of French infantry simultaneously fell upon the bridgehead and the Germans broke before them.
As a result, practically none of the 153rd Infantry Brigade were able to cross the river, except for one platoon of the 7th Gordon Highlanders, which formed a bridgehead protecting the bridge just south of the Lestrem Loop.
This gallant officer made his way back again into Vieille Chapelle, with instructions that the bridgehead was to be held to the end.
There is, for instance, the bridgehead tower on the Mala Strana side, a graceful monument to Charles's gracious days.
French troops on the left drove the Germans from the tongue of land between the Yser Canal and the Martjevaart and won the bridgehead at Dreigrachten.
On the Oise front German detachments, consisting of a battalion of storming troops, having succeeded in crossing the river at Chauny, attempted to establish a bridgehead on the left bank.
Taking advantage of the bridgehead of Santa Maria and Santa Lucia, they then brought the battle on to the slopes of the right bank of the river.
The bridgehead positions at the latter place and at Dignano were taken by storm by German troops.
In conjunction with the attack the Third Canadian Division was ordered to cross the Canal and the inundated area on its front, and establish a bridgehead to enable the engineers to reconstruct the bridges leading into the city.
British troops of the Tenth Army crossed the Livenza River between Motta and Sacile and established a bridgehead east of that stream.
Later in the day a footbridge was constructed across the Conde-Mons Canal, and under cover of darkness patrols crossed and a bridgehead was established.
Under cover of the barrage, patrols succeeded in enlarging the small bridgehead across the river at Sailly-en-Ostrevent, capturing twenty-four prisoners and two machine guns.
Tuxford) from the bridgehead at Sailly, and after capturing the village they entered the Drocourt-Queant line to the northeast.
Its motorized machine gun battalion preceded the other units and successfully held the bridgehead at the Marne, opposite Chateau-Thierry.
Certain other districts, including the bridgehead of Coblenz and the territories nearest the Belgian frontier will be evacuated after ten years, and the remainder, including the bridgehead of Mainz, will be evacuated after 15 years.
If the conditions are faithfully carried out by Germany, certain districts, including the bridgehead of Cologne, will be evacuated at the expiration of five years.
Though the Offoy bridgehead had been taken over by the 20th Division, Davenport's troops were kept in support along the railway embankment at Hombleux, for it was feared that the enemy had already commenced to cross the Somme at Ham.
At Matigny he was ordered by the Major-General with half his force to guard the Offoy bridgehead and with the other half to hold Voyennes.
They boiled into Fismette and drove the small force of Pennsylvanians back to the river, where an amazingly few men managed to hold a bridgehead on the northern bank, and the town once more was German territory.
He ordered Gustafson into a position within the bridgehead established by 2/5, and further ordered both battalions then to capture and clear the eastern peninsula.
Nevertheless, a bridgeheadacross the causeway was well established on D plus 3, and the 5th Marines’ Colonel Harris moved to exploit it.
The Germans were alarmed by Rawlinson's appearance on the coast, and anticipated a possible attack in that sector by delivering a defensive blow on 10 July against the bridgehead we held north-east of the Yser between Nieuport and the coast.
Tomba, while thebridgehead at Zenson was destroyed.
At night the enemy had penetrated our third defensive position, and Gough ordered a retreat to the unfinished bridgehead on the Somme.
We were apparently not prepared: two battalions were wiped out, part of the bridgehead was lost, and Rawlinson's Fourth Army remained a more or less passive spectator of the subsequent campaign.
Even so the Austrian advance continued, while a bridgehead was secured across the Piave at Zenson.
In February she again attempted to seize the importantbridgehead across the Dniester at Usciesko and carried it on 22 March.
It seems as if the Austrians are preparing a surprise attack to drive the Italians from their bridgehead at Capo Sile.
Its motorized machine-gun battalion preceded the other units and successfully held the bridgehead at the Marne, opposite Château-Thierry.
The 61st Brigade was not to withdraw from the arc of the St. Simon bridgehead till the troops of the other Brigades had completed their retirement.
A bridgehead was maintained for some time, but at 5 p.
