A few seconds later a counterattack was launched in such force against the New Zealanders that they and the Indians were swept down the slopes of Sari Bair.
Some French units managed to penetrate into the trenches to the eastward on the 25th, but a counterattack and flank fires dislodged them again.
The French counterattack broke down, though it was claimed that they had recovered the ground.
Within a few hours strong reenforcements hurried to the spot enabled the French to deliver a counterattack and recover some of the lost ground.
The Austrians met a strong attack with a prompt counterattack and carried the day.
A counterattack debouching from the west and supported by the artillery of Moronvillers caused a slight retirement of the French left.
The German commander pulled his men together and, with the reserves which had come up in the meantime, launched a counterattack against the French, who had quickly established themselves in their newly captured positions.
A counterattack by night was also repulsed, the Germans losing sixty-five prisoners.
A counterattack made by the Sixty-second Punjabis of the Tussum garrison drove the Turks back.
A counterattack was made against General Delamain by the greater part of this fresh division.
The enemy delivered counterattack after counterattack with the greatest determination and most lavish expenditure of men.
Every Canadian gun was brought to bear, but the mud thrown up by the bombardment had put them out of action, and groups were too isolated to make a counterattack with the bayonet.
This movement was made to prevent the enemy from making a flank counterattack while the assault on the Orchard was in progress.
The enemy did not counterattack against the Canadian Corps during the day, but continued to hold out strongly in the southern outskirts of Valenciennes and Marly, and in the steel works to the southeast until dark.
Germans advanced on south bank of Aisne, took Dommiers; United States troops penetrated enemy positions in Picardy and Lorraine; French counterattack regained ground near Vingre.
In a counterattack on Givenchy, British took 750 prisoners.
This counterattack was beaten off, but owing to general conditions the line at that point was slightly withdrawn to the railway embankment immediately to the west of Hallu.
This counterattack was repulsed with heavy loss to the enemy.
It became necessary to organize a counterattack to relieve the pressure, and hurried orders were sent to the battalion at Westoutre to proceed at once to St.-Eloi.
A counterattack toward Craonne failed under a flank fire from tanks and machine guns, and step by step the heroic line was withdrawn through wooded and marshy ground to the Aisne.
Even on the first day of the assault, when the German centre advanced two and a half miles, the French made a spirited counterattack near Hautebraye, between the Aisne and the Oise.
The French official report of the incident was as follows: American troops checked German advanced forces which were seeking to penetrate Neuilly Wood, and by a magnificent counterattack hurled back the Germans north of this wood.
The counterattack looks better as it threatens to force an entrance for the Rooks in the second rank, displacing White's Queen and attacking the King from the flank.
The most forcible of the three moves available for the counterattack is Q-d8, which attacks the Rook h4 too, thereby depriving White of the possibility to save his Bishop by flight.
General Allenby at once launched a counterattack against the west flank of the Turkish attack.
It appears that the Germans had massed strong forces for a counterattack at daybreak against the newly won Canadian positions, and had already begun their forward push when they encountered the Canadians rushing across no-man's-land.
When the British were driven out of the village after a hard fight it was late in the day and the Germans evidently thought that they would not attempt a counterattack until the following morning.
Here the Turks made a determined counterattack and got to within fifteen yards of the British line.
North of Frezenberg the British carried some strong positions and dispersed a hostile counterattack launched against them later in the day.
A violent counterattack made by the Germans from Wavrille Wood was caught by French artillery fire and driven back shattered and in disorder.
The British in a dashing counterattack drove out the Germans and reoccupied the line.
By a vigorous counterattack made a little later the French drove them out and captured fifty prisoners.
Even while fighting in the open continued, the Americans organized a counterattack in the region of Conde, below Fossoy, about the time the German advance had apparently eliminated the salient.
The American machine gunners mowed down the advancing enemy battalions and later supported the French infantry in a counterattack which forced the enemy to retire beyond the northern edge of the wood.
A swift counterattack delivered by the British killed a number of them, but the others continued to hold on through the early morning hours.
The French, however, had brought up reserves and in a dashing counterattackthe enemy ranks were broken, an operation which brought them back to their former positions south of Belloy and Marqueglise.
The counterattack spoiled the division’s preparations for a morning advance.
Mindful of the likely Japanese counterattack in the night to come--and despite the fire and confusion along the beaches--both divisions also ordered their artillery regiments ashore.
Anticipation of a major Japanese counterattackthe first night influenced the landing plan.
Boehm’s success, followed shortly by General Senda’s costly counterattack against the 4th Marine Division, seemed to represent another turning point of the battle.
In the center of the island, the 3d Marine Division units had been up most of the night repelling a small but determined Japanese counterattack which had found the seam between the 21st and 9th Marines.
The surviving pilots and members of the 5th Pioneer Battalion improvised a skirmish line and launched a counterattack of their own.
To create a diversion, the Austrians delivered a counterattack along the road toward Varna.
Previous to the German attack on Charleroi, General Joffre still held to his plan of a left-wing attack, or rather a counterattack after the Germans were beaten.
We got there just in time, rushed into action, and opened fire on a German counterattack at short range, destroying the lot so far as I could see.
Whenever an occasion presented itself tocounterattack the enemy for the purpose of delaying his advance, that occasion was to be taken advantage of.
Again the belligerents came to a hand-to-hand conflict, and so well directed was the allied counterattack that no advantage to the Germans was obtained.
Then followed the strong Serbian counterattack against the Austrian center along the Suvobor ridges and the complete demoralization of the Austrian forces from the center south.
Here they halted while a counterattack was being organized by the First Royal Highlanders, part of the Camerons, and the Second King's Rifle Corps which also came up.
All these mixed forces now essayed a combined counterattack in order to recover the ground lost by the Sirhind Brigade, but this failed.
The two Marines fired all their ammunition at Japanese tanks advancing in a counterattack on the night of D+1.
Poindexter’s counterattack regained the terrain between Camp 1 and the road junction west of the airstrip.
When, by 0900, the enemy at the front having shown no inclination to attack his position, Poindexter ordered a counterattack toward the airstrip.
Edson ordered Torgerson to launch a counterattack with his two reorganized parachute companies.
The initial assault elements would thus be vulnerable to counterattack and defeat while most of the amphibious force remained on board its transports.
The next morning Companies I and M held the roadblock as L and F conducted another counterattack preceded by a half-hour artillery preparation.
Illustration: Sgt Clyde Thomason was posthumously decorated with the Medal of Honor for his leadership in turning back a Japanese counterattack during the Makin raid.
The Japanese launched their classic banzai counterattack at 2200 that night.
It was just as well, for the Japanese had renewed their counterattack on the Bairoko trail and were pressing hard on the soldiers.
In the morning Edson ordered a counterattack by his reserve companies.
At daybreak on March 4 the Germans launched a fresh counterattack against Douaumont after an intense bombardment accompanied by the use of aerial torpedoes.
They repulsed a fierce Austrian counterattack and captured 3,000 prisoners and many guns.
At the same time they made their first important counterattack in the Lutsk region.
No hour of the day passes when there is not somewhere an attack or a counterattack going forward with a bitterness and ferocity unknown since the beginning of the war.
The Russians then made a counterattack which resulted in the capture of more ground.
On the other hand, the French delivered a strong counterattack from the Avocourt Redoubt and succeeded in reoccupying a large portion of the so-called "Square Wood" and in capturing half a hundred prisoners.
On the left of the French, a little strip of land along the southern edge of the Avocourt Wood was won, but in a dashing counterattack the French recaptured it.
This time the Germans not only repulsed all these attacks, but promptly launched a counterattack near Vidzy, a little country town on the Vilna-Dvinsk post road, capturing thereby some 300 men.
A determined Japanese counterattack forced back the left flank of the 2d Battalion and exposed Company K.
Kuroda thought that all available land forces should be concentrated in the Luzon area in order to counterattack any American landing within the Luzon perimeter.
Japanese Counterattack The enemy forces did not wait.
At 1815 the Japanese launched a counterattackagainst the perimeter of Company G but the attack was repulsed.
At twilight, after heavy artillery fire, the enemy launched a strong counterattack which forced the battalions to withdraw to the river bank, where they established perimeters for the night.
At 1037, as the battalion reached the military crest of the hill, the Japanese launched a smallcounterattack on the left flank of Company E.
A light fast armored column moved north to clear the road and to forestall any Japanese counterattack from that direction as the rest of the task force went rapidly south through the barrio of Look to Palompon, which fell at 1206.
The counterattack should be made vigorously and at the proper time.
Where the defense is assumed with a view to making a counterattack, the troops for the counterattack should be held in reserve until the time arrives for such attack.
The force for the counterattack should be held echeloned in rear of the flank which offers it the greatest advantage for the proposed attack.
When the battalion is operating alone, the support must be strong and must be fed sparingly into the firing line, especially if a counterattack is planned.
Opportunities for counterattack should be sought at all times.
Which left no recourse but to launch a bloody counterattack directly on the breastwork.
In the event of successful landings his forces would “counterattack to the water and .
On 7 July Ogata issued a “Plan for the Guidance of Battle” ordering his men to be prepared not only for landings at Tinian Town and Asiga Bay, but also for a counterattack in the event the Americans were to invade across the White Beaches.
The “Mobile Counterattack Force” must “advance rapidly to the place of landings, depending on the situation and attack.
This was not a trifling assignment; it produced the heaviest fighting since the counterattack on the night of Jig Day.
Illustration: On the night of 24-25 July, a Japanese counterattack accompanied by tanks failed completely with heavy losses.
His reserve force was to “maintain fortified positions, counterattack points [and] maintain anti-aircraft observation and fire in its area.
By a strong counterattack the British recovered all the ground on the west that they had lost on the previous day.
In the afternoon of this date the Germans attempted a counterattack which was broken up with heavy losses by the British artillery barrage.
A counterattack recaptured for the Italians the greater part of the ground lost.
This was the fourteenth or fifteenth counterattack the Germans had made against the village, which failed as all the previous ones had done.
The latter retorted promptly by a strong counterattack which inflicted severe losses.
To the southward, in the region, of Lombaertzyde, the Germans only obtained a temporary success, the British in a strong counterattack driving them out of the positions they had won before they had time to organize for defense.
In the night the Germans in force delivered a counterattack to regain the lost ground, displaying a disregard for safety and stolid bravery as they pushed on in spite of heavy losses.
The Germans did not attempt a counterattack until the following night, when they mistakenly bombarded and raided their own first lines, believing that the Canadians were still there.
By a counterattack they were driven out of Potaschnia.
About the middle of the month the Austro-Germans launched a strong counterattack and regained all the ground, inflicting at the same time heavy losses on the Russians.
An energetic counterattackmade between the Californie and Casemates Plateaus enabled the French to regain a trench line which the Germans had penetrated and held since the previous day.
South of this the British took another section of German trenches, and by a counterattack won back trenches to the east beyond Mouquet Farm which they had lost on previous days.
At Verdun the German lines were forced back close to Fleury, the French taking enemy trenches and smashing a counterattack with their artillery.
The battalion did not have sufficient material to undertake a strong counterattack and to repulse the advance guards beyond Cortelazza.
That these reserves were being held as a mobile army was so generally known that, it will be remembered, there was daily expectation of a counterattack by this force.
Heavy fighting took place, and a counterattack from the direction of Rumilly was beaten off.
The next day came the great French counterattack between Lassigny and Noyon, already mentioned in connection with the geographical development of the battle.
Commander Starita, who decided to hold and to counterattack in spite of the difficult position.
The Germans in their counterattack came at us in serried ranks.
Here reinforcements arrived, and it was whilst marching to counterattack Mulhouse, after a small fight in a village we had already passed, that I was wounded.
That night, the Japanese organized another and heavier--two companies--counterattack directed at the Marines at the Point.
Inconsistently, he had also reported that his brave counterattack force had thrown the enemy into the sea.
The great Japanese counterattack of 4-5 May proved ill-advised and exorbitant.
Magee lost three tanks to Japanese artillery fire in the approach, but took the hill and held it throughout the inevitable counterattack that night.
This was no Mount Suribachi; its significance lay in the ingenuity of its defensive fortifications and the ferocity with which General Ushijima wouldcounterattack each U.
Make a plan of defense and counterattack for his position or approve the one left there.
The real strength of the defense consists, not in holding the fire and cover trenches, nor even the support trenches, but in holding the supporting and strong points until the counterattack can be launched.
The Germans were repulsed by a counterattack as far as the slopes north of the beacon.
The Germans estimated the Russian forces which here were brought, up for the counterattack at some ten army corps and seven cavalry divisions.
By the same night they had repulsed a counterattack near the Rostoki and captured a battalion of Austrian infantry.
Ivanoff decided to venture a counterattack which would at the same time relieve the pressure on his center and also check the move on Josefov, dangerously near to the Warsaw-Ivangorod-Lublin line.
An Anglo-Indian force easily dislodged them from this place, and a counterattack made by the Turks from the west was repulsed with a loss to them of several hundred prisoners.
The best that the British seemed to be able to do was to prevent the German counterattack from being successful.
Believing their plans for the counterattack were working favorably, the Germans advanced, only to be mowed down by the French guns.
Finally, at Hartmannsweilerkopf the French repelled a counterattack delivered by a German battalion which suffered heavy losses and left numerous prisoners in the hands of the French.
Having started their enemies back, the Germans massed for a counterattack and drove them back a mile, but not without a terrific struggle.
The next day a counterattackcarried out by a French company retook this ground, and inflicted a loss of 200 men.
After the shattering of the German counterattack at Height 100.
Each side had large reserves, and the struggle for the pass continued day and night, the Italians pushing over the neighboring passes and gathering their strength for a counterattack when the Austrians were exhausted.
Here a strong force had collected, which not only offered a powerful resistance, but even attempted a counterattack against their pursuers.
In this counterattack very satisfactory results were obtained by the use of the Duke of Westminster's armored motor cars.
Sir Herbert Plumer realized by the middle of the afternoon that a counterattack was necessary.
The expected big Japanese counterattack still did not come.
Conservative estimates put the Japanese dead as a result of the counterattack at 3,200 men.
Following three days of bitter fighting culminating in a heavy Japanese counterattack which pushed back the flank of his battalion, he personally led a platoon into the gap and, placing it for defense, repelled the hostile force.
In the large picture, the defeat of the large counterattack on the 26th by the many battalions of the 3d Division who fought valiantly through the bloody night finished the Jap on Guam.
The Germans were also unsuccessful in a counterattack on Hill 607, at Sattel, south of the Fecht.
An unsuccessful counterattack was made that night from the Spur of the White Way.
They also repulsed a counterattack opposite Uffholz, and blew up an ammunition store at Cernay.
The Germans estimated the Russian forces which here were brought up for the counterattack at some ten army corps and seven cavalry divisions.
As soon as this had been accomplished by the British, their artillery proceeded to send such a rain of shrapnel fire between the village and the Germans that a counterattack was quite impossible.
The method of attack so infuriated the British that they made a desperate counterattack with the result that they regained most of what they lost with the exception of about five hundred yards of trenches.
In the meantime the French on the western section of the front made a counterattack from the canal with partial success; but were unable to drive the German troops from the sector entirely.
One of the French aviators had seen a German counterattack getting under way near the sugar factory at Souchez.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "counterattack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
