A large German army attacked the Roumanian forces and drove them back with heavy losses to their own borders.
The 1st Division was much exhausted and weakened by heavy losses.
The artillery going on in advance, formed a formidable line of batteries, the fire of which prepared the way for a farther advance, and by half-past eleven the 11th Brigade had taken possession of Vionville in spite of heavy losses.
The battles already won had cost heavy losses; in officers especially the losses were irreparable.
The 2nd Brigade approaching from Orgeres, halted to the west of Nonneville, and the 4th marched up to between Villepion and Faverolles, which position the Bavarians, in spite of heavy losses, succeeded in holding for a long time.
The first failed; the second succeeded in landing them in the southern part of the wood, but they were ultimately repulsed with heavy losses.
Two Austrian counterattacks toward Forni Alti and Campigliazione were repulsed with very heavy losses.
In spite of heavy losses and of the appalling state of the ground, they pressed on to their objectives with the greatest determination.
He was thus able with his machine-guns and riflemen, whom he posted at night in the woods in advance of his trench lines, to defeat the attack completely and inflictheavy losses on the 4th Gordon Highlanders, and the 9th Royal Scots.
Starting out twenty-five strong the party soon suffered heavy losses, and only three men of the party survived unhurt.
Ware, and fifty other ranks, from the “Non Starters” camp in Bottom Wood, where a few officers and other ranks had been kept out of the fight in order to form a nucleus for reorganisation in case of heavy losses.
Finally, despite the streams of bullets, they surrounded the plateau, cut off the Germans in it, and went ahead, capturing a hill beyond the wood and inflicting heavy losses on the Germans as they withdrew.
The Allies retreated toward the Aisne, inflicting, as they fell back, heavy losses on the Germans, who drove forward great masses of troops over their dead comrades' bodies.
The march resulted in a very severe and strongly disputed cavalry fight, ending in heavy losses on both sides.
Counterattacks on the French front along the Chemin-des-Dames and in the region of Chevreux resulted in heavy lossesto the Germans in men and guns.
The British held on determinedly in spite of heavy losses, and their courage never flagged.
Strong Russian attacks were repulsed with heavy losses southwest of Fundul Moldowi.
Apparently the Bulgarian retreat had been too long delayed, for before reaching the head of the valley they were cut off by the Serbians and only escaped after heavy losses, both in killed, wounded, prisoners, and materials.
The V Corps had now held it for little short of a year, and had during that period incurred heavy losses.
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