The battle was fought on the 19th and 20th of September, and Rosecrans was badly defeated, with a heavy loss in artillery and some sixteen thousand men killed, wounded and captured.
At daylight on the 29th the attack was resumed and continued throughout the most of the day; the enemy were again repulsed with heavy loss.
They made several gallant attempts to carry the enemy's position, but were each time repulsed with heavy loss.
On the 13th a reconnoissance was sent out by General Butler, with a view to drive the enemy from some new works he was constructing, which resulted in heavy loss to us.
Some heavy fighting ensued, which resulted in the enemy being driven back with heavy loss.
The counter-strokers by the enemy were delivered at first with great vigor, but later on they decreased in strength, and all were driven off with heavy loss.
The enemy's attack was ultimately driven back with heavy loss.
The Filipinos attack the Americans at San Fernando and are repulsed with heavy loss.
On the other hand, it was a very decided success, inflicting a terrible destruction of supplies of every kind, and a heavy loss of men upon the enemy.
This was a heavy loss to the Seminoles, but there still remained in the Peninsula a few hundred warriors with their families scattered into very small parcels, who were concealed in the most inaccessible hammocks and swamps.
Though the charge was most gallantly made, Latour Maubourg leading the dragoons at a gallop, a close and shattering volley from the 90th obliged them to turn along the front of the regiment, and retreat with a heavy loss.
The face of the height was covered with tirailleurs, who kept up an incessant fusilade, while grape and canister ploughed the ground, occasioning a heavy loss, and more particularly to the centre.
This brilliant affair, from the strength of their position, and the obstinacy with which the French contested every inch of ground, cost the British a heavy loss.
The newspaper traffic, the parcel post, and the Imperial Telegraph Service are carried on at heavy loss.
Heavy loss of property and a food and fuel famine imminent were the precise situation.
The enemy was here repulsed with a heavy loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners.
Without entire success, and with a heavy loss, there was no murmuring or complaining, no falling back, nor other evidence of demoralization.
But this had not been accomplished without a heavy loss, embracing some of our gallant and promising officers.
No assistance was sent, no notice, indeed, of any kind was taken of him; his garrison was discouraged by heavy loss, and by the mines which the enemy were pushing forward.
Sir Frederick Roberts at a glance had perceived that a direct attack by the Babawali Kotul must involve very heavy loss, and he resolved on the alternative of turning the Afghan position.
After a brief artillery preparation the columns carried the position with a rush, and the Kohistanees were routed with heavy loss.
Yes, we might do that, but it would be a heavy loss to some poor fellow.
The Spaniards fought well, imitating the steadiness of the Portuguese and, being for the most part good marksmen, their fire was very deadly; and several determined attacks of the French were beaten off with heavy loss.
It might have resulted in heavy loss on both sides, and have caused such ill feeling between the British and Portuguese troops as to seriously interfere with the general dispositions for the campaign.
Then their leader, seeing that they would sustain very heavy loss if the enemy carried the wall by assault, ordered his trumpeter to sound the retreat.
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