In 1918, during theiroffensives against Rheims, the Germans attacked several times in this region.
It was violently bombarded during the German offensives of May, June and July, 1918.
Although in the course of these two offensives not less than 152 German divisions had been thrown into battle, the enemy failed to pierce the Allies’ front or break down their resistance.
The two great German offensives of March and April both failed, despite their extreme violence and the fact that the Allies were taken by surprise.
Outside of important local gains, the great western offensives have been failures.
Those people in Thanet and Kent who used to write to the papers saying they could hear the guns in the Vimy Ridge and Messines offensives were wrong.
Through that bloody series of offensives the Italians slowly but steadily gained ground, and drew ever nearer to Trento and Trieste.
It was the last of the great offensivesplanned at Anzac.
Lone Pine had started the whole of the operations, and the Australian Division throughout the night was to carry them on by a series of offensives from their trenches right along the line.
Here, too, two separate offensives had developed, although they were more closely correlated than in the center.
But to both of these offensives the Turks now offered a most determined resistance, and the Russians, though making progress continuously, did so only very slowly.
From that point of view it is possible to justify the Turkish offensives as sound strategy.
Speaking of the offensive of the Germans at Verdun and of the offensive of the Austrians in Italy, he says: "Both offensives suffered from the fact that inadequate reserves prevented the first successes from being followed up.
It was, however, incumbent on Germany to prevent her defensive offensives from combining the major costs of an offensive with the minor advantages produced by a defence; and economy in the waste of man-power was becoming urgent.
Russia had been dealt a far more staggering blow than France in 1914, and Serbia and Montenegro had fared worse than Belgium, while in both East and West our counter-offensives had been ineffectual.
This second of Pétain's limited offensives was carried out by Maistre and led to a more extended German retirement.
Certainly those offensives were begun with limited forces, and probably succeeded beyond his expectations.
The breakdown of Russia and of the French campaign paralysed otheroffensives than those on the Western front, and a sympathetic inertia spread to the Balkans.
Minor offensives were undertaken, some of which, like the Allied attack upon Doiran, deserve mention, but on the whole the fighting was a stalemate.
During the great German offensives the Germans had lost at least five hundred thousand men, while the casualties of the Allies were barely one hundred and fifty thousand.
After three months of great offensives these shock troops were now in great part destroyed, and the German lines were being held mainly by the inferior troops which had been left.
By the criterion of precedents of previous offensives against front-line positions we should succeed in our undertaking only at an immense cost of life, should the Germans decide to make a determined defense.
Offensives against even small patches of woods had proved the hopelessness of any frontal attack against forests.
This operation and the operations that preceded it in resisting the German offensives were all known to the general public as Chateau-Thierry, which is the name of the town lying in the lap of the hills on the bank of the Marne.
In those days when all offensives in the west had failed, many military experts were inclined to accept this view.
They had immence forces of reserves to draw upon to meet an offensive which was centered in one sector, with no danger of having to meet offensives in another sector.
Rumor gave the reason that the French Fourth Army was not ready; possibly the real reason, or at least a contributory reason, was in the canniness of such an old hand at offensives as Marshal Foch.
Our soldiers were forbidden to speak of peace; all thought of peace being as resolutely suppressed in the military mind as apprehension of defeat, when the German offensives in the spring had seemed to be threatening Paris.
It was easier for French and British veterans, familiarized by otheroffensives with the roar and the flashes of artillery, to relax than for Americans who were having the experience for the first time.
A part of it might be readily taken at any time by thorough artillery preparation, but the victors in the early offensives had suffered enormous toll of casualties from shell-fire in organizing their new positions.
Various local offensives had been planned, to take from the enemy what little good ground he held near the point of his salient.
A large number of Army Brigades were created by the reorganization, and were used to increase the artillery at the disposal of divisions for offensives or in dangerous sectors.
The Germans were to make new offensives and gain much ground, notably near Rheims, where they cut the main Eastern Railway, and came all too close to Paris at Château-Thierry.
The 36th Division, being in the Second Army, was not destined to take part in the early great counter-offensives that raised all men's spirits and showed the world that at last the tide had turned.
Weary and sorely tried handfuls of men had made a most stout-hearted resistance to well-organized and determined attacks, and the bombing counter-offensives had been carried out with a dash that fresher troops could not have excelled.
We refer to the specific use of gas shell for the neutralisation of batteries, roads, and areas, and to the use of cloud gas, prior to offensives for the production of casualties, and wearing down of reserves.
Near Nieuport the front penetrated a region inundated by the Belgians during the desperate German offensives of 1914.
One of them--on which we have all agreed--relates to the necessity of diverting enemy forces from Russia and China to other theaters of war by new offensives against Germany and Japan.
The massive offensives which are in the making both in Europe and the Far East--will require every ounce of energy and fortitude that we and our Allies can summon on the fighting fronts and in all the workshops at home.
An announcement of how these offensives are to be launched, and when, and where, cannot be broadcast over the radio at this time.
Immediately Marshal Foch had set his own armies in forward motion he ordered the British and American armies to open the offensivesthey had prepared.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "offensives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
