August and September passed in continual sorties and battles without the walls, skirmishing attacks by the Kozaks in the tzarskie army, and mining operations by the German engineers.
Mrs. MacLeod's sorties from the fort are a part of our scheme--the essential part.
Sorties were made in great force, but were always repulsed, as were the attacks made by Leganez, and on the 17th of September the garrison surrendered, being allowed to march out with their arms.
The 42d Bombardment Group (medium bombers) in October flew the greatest number of sorties in the history of the group up to that time.
Two fighter groups were on Morotai, one heavy bomber group was on Noemfoor, off the north coast of New Guinea, and two heavy bomber groups were on Biak; they completed 175 sortiesin strikes against airfields on Mindanao and the Visayan area.
It was estimated that on 5 December, for the journey to the target, seventeen night fighter sorties and seventy-two day fighter sortieswould be required.
There was terrible grief in the garrison at the loss of this splendid officer, the principal organiser of the Town Guards and the successful leader of so many skirmishes and sorties throughout the siege.
Continual sorties took place, and indeed formed part of the routine of daily life.
Not to keep his soldiers idle he occupied them at night in trifling sortieswhich fatigued the besieger.
This, however, did not constitute a countervallation sufficient to protect them from the sorties of the besieged.
These sorties were effected by one or two companies while the others rested.
At Paris, the forts which are by no means planned in view of the present long range, enabled a weak and inexperienced garrison, whose morale was none of the firmest, to execute sorties with success to a distance of two miles and a half.
It persisted in maintaining the offensive over a circle of from twelve to sixteen miles, thanks to a few rifled cannon with which the ramparts were furnished, and which protected sorties through a radius of three to four miles.
They had feared our sorties evidently as much as we had their rushes, had these Chinese soldiers.
These mysterious barricades, built in parallels, are so cunningly constructed that our fiercest sorties must in the end beat themselves to pieces against brick and stone; if the enemy can complete his plans we shall be choked silently.
The men remained under arms all night, in readiness to meet the frequent sorties of the enemy, who intended nothing more serious than preventing reinforcements from being sent to the right of our line.
Fierce night sorties were again made by the enemy and bravely resisted by our boys, who continued the work regardless of these annoyances.
Sorties by the enemy were frequent, and, on the night of the 22nd March, a most determined attack was made upon the working parties of the allies from four different points.
In one of these sortiesbrave young Lieutenant Battye of the Guides received a terrible wound in the stomach from a cannon shot.
We should neither have food, nor firewood to cook it; for these essentials we should be dependent upon sorties into the city, in which, if we were beaten, we should of course be ruined.
The enemy increased greatly in numbers on the 6th; and, in spite of the successful sorties of the Goorkhas, drove back their outposts, and confined them within the narrow limits of their barracks.
During the Marne and the three sorties of the Belgian army, they had only a very small number of men at their disposal to garrison the largest towns.
The army now advanced to the bridge which led from Gezemanie to the city, and repulsed two sorties of the enemy.
The next day he entered the town, making several vigorous sorties on the enemy, who now began to gather in round him on all sides.
The first few days were taken up with skirmishes in the suburbs and sorties by the garrison, who endeavoured, too late, to destroy the cover which the outlying buildings afforded the enemy.
The same unfounded hopes and false rumours, the same invincible optimism and futile belief in the 'plan of Trochu,' in successful sorties from Paris or in the victories of the army of the Loire prevailed as in Paris itself.
What with the success attendant upon the sorties and the numerous decorations which had been distributed among the officers and privates, such a spirit of daring had been created that the idea of a surrender was scouted by all.
There were several sorties to repulse, and these small successes kept up the men’s spirits.
He also rewarded the gallantry of particular defenders during the assault and in the sorties by promotion, or by sending them the decoration of the Legion of Honour.
If sorties are to be made, or attacks repulsed, they will not take you; you are not of an age to run, or to give a bayonet stroke!
I am thinking of Zbaraj, how the besieged inflicted with sorties more than one great defeat on the ruffians.
This soldier did good to others too; for after he had beaten Death, he hurt her so that she was fainting for three days, and during that time no one fell in camp, though sorties were made.
Sorties attended with varied success were made, sometimes daily, from the garrison.
Even the women aided in the numberless sorties made from the city.
The Christians made sorties from the church and at the sound of drums and trumpets engaged the enemy to the discomfiture of the latter as they were conquered by fear rather than by arms.
Recruits are eager to join the colours, but at the sight of the enemy their courage evaporates and, as bravery is not one of their characteristics, they are more ready to dig entrenchments than to make sorties therefrom.
Well, if sorties were taking place, the Germans would want all their men down there, and would be unable to come and overwhelm our already overtasked armies.
Sorties might easily have been made by the townspeople, for all right-minded people would rather have given their cattle to the town than see them requisitioned by the Prussians.
Under cover of this the Spanish engineers pushed their trenches up to the very edge of the moat, in spite of several desperate sorties by the garrison.
Vigorous sorties were made, and the cavalry sometimes sallied out from the gates and made excursions as far as Wouw, a village three miles away, and took many prisoners.
Many sorties were made by the garrison, and fierce fighting took place, but only a score or two of men from each company were taken upon these occasions, and the boys were compelled to remain inactive spectators of the fight.
There were, however, strong bodies of troops always stationed near to guard the engines from such attacks, and the French sorties were not only repulsed, but their knights had much difficulty in winning their way back to the town.
The garrison had been reinforced by four hundred knights and picked men- at-arms, and fought with great determination and valour, making several sorties from the two gates of the town.
She makes sorties and attacks, she endeavours to hide her weakness by her bravados, and when she replies most disdainfully to a summons to capitulate, is perhaps on the eve of surrender.
The city was surrounded on September 20, and an unbroken bombardment with many desperate sorties ensued until October 2, when the Russians sent out a white flag to the city and demanded its surrender.
They had also realized an important success south of Lisko and had repulsed counterattacks by the enemy in the Carpathians at Uzsok Pass and renewed sorties by the garrison at Przemysl.
But sorties were repulsed, and the garrison had to stand on the defensive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
