Following the explosion, the Germans raided the trenches under cover of a heavy barrage, and for several hours hand to hand fighting of the fiercest nature was carried on.
At the same time the ominous rattle and clatter of machine-guns broke out with increasing intensity as the enemy strove to avoid the hand-to-hand fighting which, above all others, he dreaded the most.
Survivors of the assaulting troops actually reached Polderhoek Château and even penetrated beyond it, but after severe hand to hand fighting a line was taken up two hundred yards west of the Château.
The troops used hand grenades and bayonets and literally forced the enemy out of the foxholes in tough hand-to-hand fighting.
Although apparently well led and well organized, they were in less strength than before and were driven back, but not without a grenade battle and some hand-to-hand fighting.
At every one of the barricades there was furious hand-to-hand fighting: our men counter-attacked from the parapet with the bayonet and fought with the butt end of their rifles and thus succeeded in bringing the enemy advance to a standstill.
Consequently there was a great deal of desultory hand-to-hand fighting, in which the young sub-lieutenant distinguished himself by his courage and talent.
Hurling division after division, by hand-to-hand fighting he drove the enemy back from their lines, and flung them into the trap of Friedland, there to fall by hundreds under the fierce fire of the French massed batteries.
Over the whole extent of the front there was hand-to-hand fighting, but everywhere the French succeeded in holding their positions.
The Germans, who are not generally fond of cold steel and hand-to-hand fighting, on this occasion did their share in the general thrusting and stabbing, and certainly displayed no lack of courage.
At different places savage hand-to-hand fighting went on in the trenches.
The advance culminated in hand-to-hand fighting, in which the 4th Seaforth Highlanders signally triumphed.
Here hand-to-hand fighting occurred, on one occasion the enemy's line being driven back and a prisoner secured in a charge.
The 4th Seaforth Highlanders on the left also encountered serious resistance, and hand-to-hand fighting developed in which they completely outmatched the Boches.
After desperate hand-to-hand fighting, nine-tenths of the summit was won.
They had advanced with but few casualties; it was in the hand-to-hand fighting in the villages and against the forts that so many of their men fell.
Round about the mill the fighting was very fierce; ground was gained and lost again; houses were captured and recaptured; and friend and foe were mixed up in confused hand-to-hand fighting.
Perhaps the most terrible hand-to-hand fighting known to history took place at a little village near the Uzsok Pass.
The Tripolitans adopted their usual style of hand-to-hand fighting, but in spite of it the vessels were fired and the Americans retired with slight loss.
The attack soon assumed a character of hand-to-hand fighting that is seldom seen in modern days.
Again and again this was followed up with infantry attacks, which in some instances resulted in the penetrating of the Russian trenches, while in others it led to sanguinary hand-to-hand fighting.
There very heavy artillery fire succeeding the infantry attacks had destroyed some small villages for the possession of which the most furious kind of hand-to-hand fighting ensued.
They were repulsed at some places by hand fighting.
September 1st was a day full of great happenings and bloody hand to hand fighting.
Assisted by the tanks the British infantry made a strong forward push, and hand-to-hand fighting ensued as soon as they had entered the forest.
Each attack was stronger than the last, and the fourth was delivered by 500 picked Turks, but all the attacks were beaten back after prolonged hand-to-hand fighting.
As the raiders neared the Americans poured a deadly fire into them, then climbed out of the trenches and engaged them with grenades and in hand-to-hand fighting.
Hand-to-hand fighting followed, the Americans using their automatic pistols and rifles.
On April 28 there was another great day of battle when the Canadians had fierce hand-to-hand fighting in the village of Arleux, and English troops made progress towards Oppy over Greenland Hill and beyond Monchy.
LATER There was sharp hand-to-hand fighting on the Westhoek Ridge by the Lancashire Fusiliers, North Lancashires, and Cheshires.
That night the enemy made an attack upon us, and there was some hand-to-hand fighting.
There had evidently been hand to hand fighting in all the rooms; and upstairs there were the remains of about a dozen men heaped together in the apartment where the two corpses first noticed were hanging out of the window.
The flags could be dislodged only by a countercharge and hand-to-hand fighting.
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