Our lack of sufficient fresh divisions in reserve and of sufficient artillery in the second week of October, 1918, for extensive operations may have given them hope of success; but we were gathering our forces for another general attack.
Determined upon a general attack on all points of the Austrian position, the French army advanced in three bodies upon a space of four leagues in extent.
The opening of Serrurier's fire was a signal for a general attack on all points of Wurmser's line.
After a fire of twenty-four hours, Dugommier and Napoleon resolved to try the fate of a general attack, for which the representatives of the people showed no particular zeal.
Massena, in the meantime, no sooner perceived the besieging army weakened by the departure of Melas, than he conceived the daring plan of a general attack on the forces of Ott, who was left to carry on the siege.
Yet Grant determined to make a general attack on the Confederate lines, and passed word to his corps commanders to make ready to execute the same at about five o'clock on the morning of June 3d.
On the next day General Grant ordered a general attackon the Confederate line.
On May 14th Sherman ordered a general attack on the Confederate stronghold, which was done by Thomas' division and a part of Schofield's.
Lee gave orders to Longstreet to make a general attack, and the boom of his cannon announced the beginning of the second day's battle.
In September a general attack on the plaza of Jolo was planned by the Sulus and conditions assumed a very serious aspect.
Sulus issued from the woods and made a general attack on the garrison, which resulted in failure and in the loss of 103 Sulus, who fell dead in the ditches.
Disappointed of gaining a bloodless possession of the fort, the Indians now, for the first time, began a general attack.
By the last intelligence Fort Pitt had been surrounded by Indians, and daily threatened with a general attack.
The surrounding woods were known to be full of prowling Indians, whose number seemed daily increasing, though as yet they had made no attempt at a general attack.
For four years it had been the zone of death where no soldier from either side ventured except at night on patrol or in a raid or general attack.
Having arranged the men in position to defend the vessels in case of a general attack, I took twenty men of the "Forty Thieves," together with a supply of rockets.
Thousands of Baris had congregated upon the various heights, and it appeared that a general attack would be renewed upon the camp.
A tremendous rush in the grass gave notice of a general attack from an immensely powerful ambuscade.
The "pow-wow" was held to disclose the plans for a general attack, ordered from Army Corps headquarters, to take place on the following evening.
Owing to a sudden change of plans to a general attack, the bombardment failed; it was not as intense as was intended, and in consequence the preparation for the attacking lines was inadequate.
Later on this order was changed to a general attack by the whole line.
When the main body of the Brigade came up at two o'clock, General von Gluemer (commanding Baden Division) ordered a general attack.
General Douay, quartered at Vouziers, received the most exaggerated reports, and must have thought that a general attack by the German army was imminent.
Advanced detachments had already at several points driven in the German posts south-east of Metz, but instead of now entering upon a general attack, Marshal Bazaine summoned all his Corps Commanders to a conference at Grimont.
On the German side, a general attack by the greatly superior enemy was hourly expected, and General von Werder felt himself bound to send by telegraph to Versailles a representation of the extreme seriousness of his position.
June 21--Italians are making a general attack on Austrian positions; Austrians repulse Italians east of the Fassa Valley; Austrians repulse two attacks near Preva.
Meanwhile this shelling of our lines on the peninsula proved the preliminary to a general attack on our front with special efforts at certain points.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general attack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
