As the day progressed, an Ottoman counter-attack almost drove the British back to the beach before it was checked.

* 1941 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.

The troops of the Red Guards were not professional soldiers but armed civilians, whose military training and discipline were mostly inadequate to resist the counter-attack of the White Army when it came, still less the onslaught of the German forces who arrived later.

On 12 July, the 21st Panzer Division launched a counter-attack against Trig 33 and Point 24, which was beaten off after a 2½-hour fight, with more than 600 German dead and wounded left strewn in front of the Australian positions.

* 1943 – World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.

Working alongside military commander Andrei Zhdanov as German advances threatened to cut off Leningrad he displayed considerable personal bravery, prancing around in defiance of heavy shelling at Ivanovskoye ; at one point he rallied retreating troops and personally led a counter-attack against German tanks armed only with a pistol.

* November 22 – WWII: Battle of Stalingrad: The situation for the German attackers of Stalingrad seems desperate during the Soviet counter-attack Operation Uranus, and General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German Sixth Army is surrounded.

By the winter of 1944-1945, he began sending vivid radio accounts of the German counter-attack in the Ardennes known as the Battle of the Bulge, and he accompanied Allied forces across the Rhine River and into Berlin.

The German counter-attack was able to drive them back to the ' black line ' with 70 % losses, then the German counter-attack were stopped by mud, artillery and machine-gun fire.

The advances were much quicker and the final objective was reached a few hours after dawn, which confounded the German counter-attack divisions.

After another severe defeat on 26 September, the German commanders made more changes to the defensive deployment of their troops and altered their counter-attack tactics, which had been negated by Plumer's more conservative limited attacks.

In July and August German counter-attack ( Eingreif ) divisions had engaged in a manner analogous to an advance to contact during mobile operations which had given the Germans several costly defensive successes.

Operation Hohensturm, a bigger German methodical counter-attack, intended to recapture the area around Zonnebeke was planned for 4 October.

After the invasion ( on June 6, 1944 ) the plan was to delay movement of German reserves to the Normandy beachhead and prevent a potentially disastrous counter-attack.

With spies providing the certain knowledge that Japanese forces in the far east would not attack Siberia, the Soviets were able to transfer large numbers of experienced forces from the far east, and in the Winter of 1941 / 1942 they used them to counter-attack the German Army Group Centre in front of Moscow.

Specifically, Generals Montgomery and Patton met up here, Montgomery coming from the north and Patton from the south, in their counter-attack against the German forces remaining in the area.

Expecting the American infantry to rout once the German tanks were among them, Bäke's command found itself poorly deployed and under sustained counter-attack from veteran American infantry.

After the initial attack and after the German counter-attack had been repulsed, the Anzio beachhead settled down to stalemate.

In the counter-attack at Arras, although British Matilda IIs ( and Matilda Is ) were able briefly to disrupt German progress, being unsupported their losses were high.

The group worked their way behind the Germans and overran the headquarters of a German unit, capturing a large group of German soldiers who were preparing a counter-attack against the U. S. troops.

In its reasoning against all types of mixed constitution and resistance theory, it was an effective counter-attack against the monarchomach position invoking “ popular sovereignty ”.

The exploding mines had destroyed a large part of the German line and as a result initial resistance was quickly overcome by the division's lead battalions — the 33rd, 34th, 38th and 39th — and by 5 am, the division had gained the crest of the Messines ridge and began digging in to defend against a possible counter-attack.

Their only significant strategic failure was the advance on Moscow, which was halted by stiff resistance, and subsequently driven back by a Russian counter-attack.

The counter-attack was led by the United States ; the 1st Division of the US Marine Corps landed on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in August 1942.

Following Alexander's victory at Issus, the Persian mercenary commander Memnon of Rhodes ordered a counter-attack into Asia Minor in an attempt to sever Alexander's lines of supply and communication ; however, Antigonus defeated the Persian forces in three separate battles.

Raglan was anxious to exploit Scarlett's success and drive the Russians off the Causeway Heights, but Cathcart's and Cambridge's infantry divisions had still not arrived ; every minute that passed gave the Russians more time to prepare their defences for the expected British counter-attack.

*: Houffalize-at the end of World War II, Schaerbeek collected fundings to relief Houffalize, suffering heavily from the last German counter-attack in the Ardennes ; since then, Houffalize yearly sends hundreds of Christmas Trees to Schaerbeek

Both 9th Parachute Battalion and the remnants of the Black Watch defended the Chateau Saint Come but were gradually forced to retreat ; however, after Lieutenant Colonel Otway stated that his battalion would be unable to defend its position for much longer, Brigadier Hill gathered together a number of paratroopers from 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion and led a counter-attack that forced the Germans to withdraw.

With the pope's blessing the counter-attack from Charles was not long in coming ; his fleet from Naples arrived and blockaded the port of Messina and made several attempts to land troops on the island, but all were repulsed.

At first, Vietnam ignored the Khmer Rouge domestic reorganization of Cambodia, by the Pol Pot régime ( 1975 – 79 ), as an internal matter, until the Khmer Rouge attacked the ethnic Vietnamese populace of Cambodia, and the border with Vietnam ; the counter-attack precipitated the Cambodian – Vietnamese War ( 1975 – 79 ) that deposed Pol Pot in 1978.

Nelson would clear and secure German positions defending the evacuation beach, whilst Jellicoe, Hardy and Drake would capture the radar site and a nearby villa occupied by Luftwaffe radar technicians and their guards ; Rodney was the reserve formation, placed between the radar site and the main likely enemy approach to block any counter-attack.

The intention of Hizbullah in choosing that location for the mortar was unclear ; it might have been to shield themselves against an IDF counter-attack in the belief that the UN compound would be too close for the IDF to respond.

Canadian troops who had landed nearby on ' Juno Beach ' isolated the station but the Germans successfully defended it for 12 days, awaiting a counter-attack by Panzers ; on one occasion it was resupplied with food via a nocturnal paradrop mission from Mont-de-Marsan.

In the German counter-attack, then-Gunnery Sergeant Ernest A. Janson — who was serving under the name Charles Hoffman — repelled an advance of 12 German soldiers, killing two with his bayonet before the others fled ; for this action he became the first Marine to receive the Medal of Honor in World War I.

Napoleon was effectively defeated in a tough battle in the morning and early afternoon ; Melas, thinking he had already won, had turned over delivery of the coup de grace to a subordinate, when the prompt return of a detached French force under Desaix and a vigorous French counter-attack ( in the course of which Desaix was killed ) converted the battle into an important French victory.

However when the Protoss arrived to cleanse Mar Sara they held off attacking ; the Confederacy had mounted a clumsy counter-attack to protect the planet from them, and Executor Tassadar did not wish to kill any more Terrans than was necessary.

Thereafter, the battalion took part in the 8th Army's push to the Yalu river, winning a battle honour at the Battle of Pakchon ; then the subsequent retreat before the Chinese intervention, and the recovery and counter-attack to line Kansas, near the present Military Demarcation Line.

A series of Royalist attacks led to large number of casualties and the slow retreat of Essex's force, which was driven from the central hill and almost encircled ; Essex succeeded in rallying his infantry, however, and pushed forward in a counter-attack.

The art of using this cumbersome weapon, kanabō-jutsu or Tetsubo-jutsu, consisted of a mastery of both balance and strength ; it required great skill to recover from a miss with the heavy club, which could leave a wielder open to a counter-attack.

To the civilians suffering the blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as “ random ” acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause ; because the public — in whose name the intelligence agency acted — are ignorant of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge ( counter-attack ) against them.

" Baltar then lands on Kobol itself, alone, to tell Adama a different story: He was " as much a victim " as anyone else in the destruction of the Colonies, and the Cylons -- being spread out all over the galaxy in search of the Galactica -- are vulnerable ; he proposes escorting the Galactica to Cylon in order to " launch a devastating counter-attack against those demons "-- with Starbuck's release as proof of his sincerity.

The counter-attack was too much for the Prussians ; they threw down their arms and surrendered.

The rope-a-dope is performed by a boxer assuming a protected stance ( in Ali's classic pose, lying against the ropes ; by leaning against the ropes, much of the punch's energy is absorbed by the ropes ' elasticity rather than the boxer's body ) while allowing his opponent to hit him, providing only enough counter-attack to avoid the referee thinking the boxer is no longer able to continue and thus ending the match via technical knockout.

In the first part of 1710 the regiment was part of the force besieging Douai ; they repelled a counter-attack in May with no casualties.