Counterattacks were ordered by the French general in chief, continued during the entire retreat and had frequently brilliant results.
The new German method of holding lines by small garrisons in concrete blockhouses with large reserves behind for counterattacks had broken down completely.
During the day the Germans attempted three counterattacks with bombs on the new British positions but were driven off.
Throughout the day's fighting the German counterattacksfailed completely.
The failure of their counterattacks seemed to have completely unnerved the German troops.
Late in the day the British in counterattacks gained ground at some points, but the honors rested with the Germans, who by costly sacrifice of men won important defenses and advanced their lines.
The attack and counterattacksyielded 242 prisoners to the Americans.
This was the scene of continuous attacks and counterattacks for two days in which each side gained in turn a temporary ascendancy, but the result was indecisive.
At Noyelles, Rumilly, and Bullecourt they made desperate counterattacks during the night, but were unable to overcome British resistance.
The Germans shelled the wood after it was occupied by the British, and then organized two counterattacks with the purpose of retaking it.
Afterward the American gunners, with their French comrades, extended their range, developing an effective barrage to prevent counterattacks on the newly won ground.
At times the Americans encountered the stiffest resistance, which took the form of counterattacks rather than defensive retreats.
The crest of the ridge was held against counterattacks which the Germans launched again and again with desperate daring and at the cost of frightful losses.
They were subject to strong night counterattacks from Japanese who left their caves under cover of darkness.
Beginning then, the salient which the 5th Marines had carved between Peleliu’s central and southern defenders came under a series of sharp counterattacks that continued throughout the night.
Notwithstanding their surprise effect, these counterattacks provided a rare and welcome opportunity for the Marines actually to see their enemy in daylight.
Throughout the night, there was a series of enemy probes and counterattacks onto the ridge top.
During the early morning hours of 31 December, the Japanese launched four counterattacks against the forces at Villaba.
Several counterattacks were repulsed, but the machine gun was not silenced.
All of the counterattackswere driven off with heavy casualties on both sides.
During the night they repulsed three counterattacksof about fifty men each.
During the night the enemy unsuccessfully launched three counterattacks against the 1st Battalion.
The 12th Independent Infantry Regiment at the same time directed two unsuccessful counterattacks against the right flank and rear of the 3d Battalion.
The 307th Infantry moved westward along the Ormoc-Linao road to forestall any enemy reinforcements and counterattacks from that direction.
The heaviest firing would generally start about 1530 and increase in intensity until about dark, the fire being accompanied by counterattacks from the front and on the flanks.
They made vital gains and fought off fierce counterattacks to hold them.
Here no less than five strong counterattacks were beaten off in the course of the day, the Canadians being greatly assisted by the fire of captured German machine guns in Crest Farm.
Prior to its accomplishment there had been many signs that the enemy was preparing to make strong counterattacks from the direction of Givenchy and Hirondelle Woods to recover the Vimy Ridge.
Two counterattacks against the Twenty-second Corps front on the right caused some anxiety, but that flank was strengthened and no trouble developed.
Heavy counterattacks by fresh troops were repulsed during the afternoon and following night.
Four hostile counterattacks to recover the newly won ground were beaten off during the night.
Later in the day, strong hostile counterattacks once more developed, accompanied by an intense bombardment with heavy guns.
Supported by the fire of the artillery on the right bank, they gained ground and repulsed enemy counterattacks throughout the day.
French held Hangard against repeated counterattacks and repulsed German raids between the Ailette and the Aisne.
To the south the Tenth Army, taking advantage of the successes of the British at Grave di Papodopoli, compelled the enemy to retire, and repulsed two counterattacks in the direction of Borgo Malanotte and Roncadelle.
These counterattacks may be regarded as merely efforts to gain time, but the hour of another great battle was at hand.
The Germans made two counterattacksstarting from Mühlbach and Stossweiler; but they were unsuccessful.
In the region of Bagatelle in the Argonne two German counterattacks were repulsed.
Furious counterattacks were delivered by the Russians at Halicz and Jezupol, the bridgeheads of the southern bank of the Dniester.
Two counterattackswhich the Germans made were unsuccessful.
Once more the unceasing Turkish counterattacks drove them back to the very edge of the heights overlooking Beach X, where only the intense bombardment of the protecting warships saved them.
In spite of all the Germans could do with their artillery and their repeated counterattacks the West London men maintained their small wedge in the Teuton front.
At the same time in the region of Vauquois, the French made some progress and held the ground captured in spite of the counterattacks of the Germans.
The bravery of the Russians, especially in their counterattacks on both sides of the road from Rozan to Ostrow on the 4th of August, won the admiration of the Germans.
The Turks madecounterattacks on the two succeeding nights but never regained the ground they had lost.
In those places the British were pushed back at least temporarily; but counterattacks were delivered before nightfall, and the greater part of the lost ground regained.
Similar counterattacks were delivered by the Germans on the River Wenta.
For the most part the British regained by counterattacks what they lost; but they were unable to retake the Château of Hooge, though the Ninth Lancers and the Fifteenth Hussars made a heroic attempt to regain it.
To the north, just across the railroad at Rafalovka, attacks and counterattacks followed each other as regularly as day and night.
Their counterattacks were concentrated on a comparatively unimportant part of the battle front in certain places, the loss of which appeared to them to be particularly dangerous.
Later in the day of the 25th some German counterattacks were made from the direction of Ripon, but failed to drive the French from the Maisons de Champagne summit.
At the two extremities of the French attacking front, where the advance was subjected to converging fires and to counterattacks on the flanks, the offensive practically failed--or at least made no progress.
The French artillery endeavored to isolate the attacks, should they succeed in reaching the French lines, and their fearless infantry by vigorous counterattacks prevented the Germans from making any important advance.
The Turks pressed in counterattacks at several points from their second position on which they had fallen back.
They installed themselves there, notwithstanding a very violent bombardment and several counterattacks by the enemy, who suffered serious losses.
Several counterattacks to the east were carried out which greatly improved the French positions.
To obviate the danger from counterattacks against the sides of the salient, the British endeavored to flatten out the point of the wedge by capturing more ground north of Hill 70 toward Hulluch.
This attack encountered resistance and counterattacks from the British aerial services, not without effect, but lacking in positive achievement.
Throughout the night there were many counterattacks and constant grenade fighting, but the French maintained their positions.
Russian counterattacks to the north and south, undertaken in order to relieve the pressure on the center, had no effect.
They had also realized an important success south of Lisko and had repulsed counterattacks by the enemy in the Carpathians at Uzsok Pass and renewed sorties by the garrison at Przemysl.
The attacks and counterattacks on mid-river islands became incidents of daily occurrence.
This division then repulsed strong counterattacks before the village and cemetery of Ste.
While we continued to press forward and throw back the enemy's violent counterattacks with great loss to him, a regrouping of our forces was under way for the final assault.
Our attack had taken the enemy by surprise, but quickly recovering himself, he began to fire counterattacks in strong force, supported by heavy bombardments, with large quantities of gas.
This sort of fighting continued against an enemy striving to hold every foot of ground and whose very strong counterattacks challenged us at every point.
Our men, firing in three directions, met the German attacks with counterattacks at critical points and succeeded in throwing two German divisions into complete confusion, capturing 600 prisoners.
Gallant counterattacks by some of the British flung him back across the river at several points, but elsewhere he held his crossing long enough to put over some of his forces.
Here hostile counterattacks prevented our further progress, and though the village was at one time reported to have been taken by us, this proved later to be erroneous.
Later in the morning, however, heavy counterattacks developed in both localities, and our troops were unable to maintain the ground they had gained.
Counterattacks led by the two battalion commanders, with all available men, including the personnel of their headquarters, once more restored the situation.
A number of counterattacks against our new positions at Bullecourt on this and the following day were repulsed, with great loss to the enemy.
This morning renewed counterattacks gave them back all of Meteren and the enemy garrison there was destroyed.
The latter delayed these operations as much as possible by rear-guard actions and by counterattacks against the new Italian positions on Monte San Michele and against the village of San Martino, just south of the mountain.
On the Stokhod Austro-German counterattacks near the village of Tobolo, about forty miles northeast of Kovel, likewise resulted in fierce engagements.
North of the Slanio Valley, after driving away Russian forces and repulsing counterattacks by outposts, Austro-German forces advanced their fighting position on a ridge of heights.
Before long, however, fresh Austro-German troops launched new counterattacks and regained most of this territory, holding it thereafter in the face of a number of violent Russian counterattacks.
At the point of the bayonet the Turks were forced to yield, and in spite of a number of counterattacks the Russians maintained their success.
They gained all their objectives and the rapidity with which the attack was carried out proved a crushing surprise to the Germans who lost in the fight and in counterattacks ten officers and over 300 of other ranks.
Here the Germans offered the most stubborn resistance, and after the position was won they launched furious counterattacks in the hope of smashing the British before they had opportunity to organize their gains.
After forcing the enemy out of the positions, and when their strength was well-nigh spent, the British troops were forced to beat off repeated counterattacks preceded by barrage fire and to destroy the enemy again and again.
The Germans appreciating the value of this position had launched twenty counterattacks against it in the ten previous days.
Repeated German counterattacks were repulsed at all points, except in the neighborhood of Cherisy and the Arras-Cambrai road, where the British were forced to abandon some of their new positions.
Local attacks grew more and more severe, and, though the progress of the enemy was not great and Italian counterattacks were constantly made, the danger of a break-through increased.
Carey took the detachment in hand and led it in a series of attacks and counterattacks which left no time for sleeping and little for eating.
Following the front from west to east, the first thing to note is the series of French counterattacks on the left, carried to a considerable measure of success by skill in the direction and high spirit and fortitude in the ranks.
Then, with equal rapidity, they consolidated their newly won positions and were thus able to repulse some very fierce counterattacks during the following days.
Many short counterattacks delayed advances and every line of trench wire was used.
Yesterday's French counterattacks met great bodies of the enemy prepared to force another advance.
French counterattacks and a thrust of American marines on his flanks in the three succeeding days not only held him in a vise, but revealed his tremendous losses and the extraordinary means he had expended in preparations.
The brave men who took Cantigny--at the apex of the German salient aimed at Amiens--continued to hold it against all counterattacks through the succeeding weeks.
Valiantly defending this vital position against strong enemycounterattacks during the night, Private First Class Skaggs was critically wounded when a Japanese grenade lodged in his foxhole and exploded, shattering the lower part of one leg.
Battalion, led a mortar section through heavy enemy fire to support the attack, then defended his position against enemy counterattacks during the night although badly wounded.
Between Four-de-Paris and Bolante the Germans attempted two counterattacks which failed.
On the heights of the Meuse, at Les Eparges, three German counterattacks on the trenches which the French had won on February 17 were stopped by the French artillery fire.
They also repulsed two German counterattacks in front of Ridge 196, northeast of Mesnil, and extended their position in that sector.
On the following day, March 5, however, the French made successful counterattacks in the region of Notre Dame de Lorette.
Two battalions of Germans took part in the action and gained some ground which the French regained by counterattackson the following day.
Austrian counterattacks were easily repulsed, and the Col di Lana was at last completely in Italian hands.
The enemy's counterattacks were repulsed with heavy loss.
The enemy's positions in the northern and eastern parts of this wood were very strong, and no less than eight powerful German counterattacks were made here during the next five days.
This pronounced salient invited counterattacks by the enemy.
The enemy's counterattacks completely broke down under the accurate fire of our guns on the right bank of the river.
Intrenchments against probable counterattacks could not be neglected, and fresh dispositions of troops were required for the new attacks to be directed eastward.
The great majority of his frequent counterattacks failed completely, with heavy loss; while the few that achieved temporary local success purchased it dearly, and were soon thrown back from the ground they had for the moment regained.
Three terrible bayonet counterattacks lacerated the Austrian lines, but the assailants were innumerable, and no help could come, as the entire front was in action.
In Volhynia the German counterattacks against General Brussilov's army extended now along the front of almost eighty miles, stretching from Kolki on the Styr River to within a few miles of the Galician border near Gorochoff.
Of course, the Austrians launched many counterattacks against this new strong position of the Italians.
Still farther north, local counterattacks at points where the Russians first succeeded in making some advances, all yielded finally some successes for the Germans, who captured thirteen officers and 1,883 men.
The Germans had evidently not recovered from their surprise in the south, for no counterattacks were attempted, nor had any reserve divisions been brought to their support.
From the trenches which they still held on the right of our position, by the cemetery, and from the direction of Destremont Farm, they launched no fewer than seven counterattacks upon the apex and the eastern side of the salient.
Our attack had taken the enemy by surprise, but, quickly recovering himself, he began to fire counterattacks in strong force, supported by heavy bombardments, with large quantities of gas.
This Division then repulsed strong counterattacksbefore the village and cemetery of Ste.
The costly counterattacks during the night of 22-23 November effectively broke the back of the Japanese defense.
The major catalyst that altered Smith’s plans was a series of vicious Japanese counterattacksduring the night of D+2/D+3.
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