On 16 July, the Australians — supported by British tanks — launched an attack to try to take Point 24 but were forced back by German counter-attacks, suffering nearly fifty percent casualties.

Once again, however, a critical situation for the Axis forces was retrieved by vigorous counter-attacks from hastily assembled German and Italian forces, which forced the Australians to withdraw back to their start line with 300 casualties.

The advance succeeded but German artillery fire and infantry counter-attacks isolated the British infantry of 18th Division, which had captured Glencorse Wood and about 7 p. m. German infantry behind a smokescreen recaptured all but the north-west corner of the Wood.

In the II Corps area the disappointment of 10 August was repeated, with the infantry managing to advance, being isolated by German artillery and then ( except in the 25th Division area near Westhoek ) forced back to their start line by German infantry counter-attacks.

No ground captured by the British was lost and German counter-attacks managed only to reach ground to which survivors of the front-line divisions had retired.

The French First Army and British 2nd and 5th Armies attacked on 9 October on a 13, 500 yards front, from south of Broodseinde to St Jansbeek, to advance half of the distance from Broodseinde ridge to Passchendaele on the main front, led to heavy casualties on both sides, with advances in the north of the attack being retained by British and French troops and most of the ground taken in front of Passchendaele and on the Becelaere and Gheluvelt spurs being lost to German counter-attacks.

After a modest British advance German counter-attacks recovered most of lost ground opposite Passchendaele.

The 4th Canadian Division captured its objectives but gradually retreated from Decline Copse due to German counter-attacks and mis-communications between the Canadian and Australian units to the south.

Their main job was to delay the German advance with counter-attacks.

Attempts to halt the Allied advance often seemed fruitless as hurried counter-attacks and blocking positions were brushed aside and at times there seemed to be too few German units to hold anywhere.

A series of Allied counter-attacks — including the Battle of Arras — failed to sever the German spearhead, which reached the coast on 20 May, separating the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) near Armentières, the French 1st Army, and the Belgian Army further to the north from the majority of French troops south of the German penetration.

German counter-attacks squeezed the British out of Moeuvres on the 21st and Fontaine on the 22nd.

By early July he was full of anxiety that the German armour was advancing too quickly, without infantry support, and that it was exposed to Soviet counter-attacks.

A bridgehead was formed by the division, and it successfully repulsed a number of German counter-attacks until Allied ground forces from the invasion beaches reached its positions.

However, the Battalion managed to rendezvous with the coup-de-main forces at the Caen and Orne bridges, and were able to set up a defence against German counter-attacks.

The two battalions held their respective areas until relieved by ground forces advancing from the beaches, although 12th Parachute Battalion was bombarded with heavy mortar and artillery fire, and repelled two German counter-attacks by the 125th Panzer Grenadier Regiment ; the first was defeated after destroying a tank and taking a number of prisoners, and the second was repulsed with the help of an air-landed anti-tank battery which had recently arrived.

British counter-attacks, supported by artillery fire from south of the river, stopped the German assault.

By the end of D-Day the 3rd Canadian Division had penetrated farther into France than any other Allied force, though counter-attacks by elements of two German armoured divisions would stop any further movement for several weeks.

Major Mackenzie was wounded and " D " Company was driven back to the canal by German counter-attacks.

The situation would remain serious all day and nobody really knows just how many German counter-attacks were launched against the bridgehead.

By the afternoon on 19 March, it was evident that no further progress would be made by the NZ Division in Cassino town — the German paratrooper line held firm, with machine gun, mortar and sniper fire and continued counter-attacks to reduce the NZ perimeter.

`` Even when the islands were under German mandate before World War 1,, Europeans gave Eromonga a wide berth.

But both were high-spirited and vivacious, both had tempers to control, both loved languages, especially English and German, both were good teachers and wrote for publication.

He spoke no German but he could sing it and the words of the song were the only ones he knew in a foreign language.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

In German, words starting with sch-( constituting the German phoneme ) would be intercalated between words with initial sca-and sci-( all incidentally loanwords ) instead of this graphic cluster appearing after the letter s, as though it were a single letter — a lexicographical policy which would be de rigueur in a dictionary of Albanian, i. e. dh -, ë -, gj -, ll -, rr -, th -, xh-and zh-( all representing phonemes and considered separate single letters ) would follow the letters d, e, g, l, n, r, t, x and z respectively.

German words with umlaut would further be alphabetized as if there were no umlaut at all — contrary to Turkish which allegedly adopted the German graphemes ö and ü, and where a word like tüfek, " gun ", would come after tuz, " salt ", in the dictionary.

Nearly 3, 700 Allied ships were sunk at a cost of 783 German U-boats.

Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.

Compositae were first described in 1792 by the German botanist Paul Dietrich Giseke.

The French were hopeless disciplinarians .. Germans good and methodical, but it was not German that I really wanted Rosalind to learn.

In contrast, in the Arian German kingdoms established on the wreckage of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, there were entirely separate Arian and Nicene Churches with parallel hierarchies, each serving different sets of believers.

Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which were eventually published in the Transcendentalists ' journal, The Dial.

They launched a major invasion of Gaul and northern Italy in 268, when the Romans were forced to denude much of their German frontier of troops in response to a massive invasion of the Goths from the east.

* 1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40, 000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.

As the German princes were experiencing the tumult of the Reformation, the German Peasants ' War, and the wars against the Ottoman Turks, they did not enforce the ban on the duke, and agitation against him soon died away.

He added a pulpit " in German style " of bronze, gold and silver, surmounted by an arch with a rood cross in the same materials ; these were examples of the lavish decorations added to important churches in the years before the conquest.

These were differently sized in different countries, for instance, the historical French acre was 4, 221 square metres, whereas in Germany as many variants of " acre " existed as there were German states.

In 1994, Commodore filed for bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Escom, a German PC manufacturer, who created the subsidiary company Amiga Technologies.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

This Doric limestone building, from which many relics survive, is referred to as the hekatompedon ( Greek for " hundred – footed "), Ur-Parthenon ( German for " primitive Parthenon "), H – Architecture or Bluebeard temple, after the pedimental three-bodied man-serpent sculpture, whose beards were painted dark blue.