But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.

He ordered his editors to tone down on sensationalism and to refrain from using such words as `` seduction '', `` rape '', `` abortion '', `` criminal assault '' and `` born out of wedlock ''.

What is wrong with advertising is not only that it is an `` outrage, an assault on people's mental privacy '' or that it is a major cause for a wasteful economy of abundance or that it contains a coercive tendency ( which is closer to the point ).

Two counts of assault on an officer, resisting arrest, disturbance and cursing, police said.

In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.

* 1945 – The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.

The potential punishment for an assault in Canada varies depending on the manner in which the charge proceeds through the court system and the type of assault that is committed.

Some variations on the ordinary crime of assault include:

; Piracy with violence: Section 2 of the Piracy Act 1837 provides that it is an offence, amongst other things, for a person, with intent to commit or at the time of or immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, to assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel.

; Attacks on internationally protected persons: Section 1 ( 1 )( a ) of the Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978 ( c. 17 ) makes provision for assault occasioning actual bodily harm or causing injury on " protected persons " ( including Heads of State ).

; Attacks on UN Staff workers: Section 1 ( 2 )( a ) of the United Nations Personnel Act 1997 ( c. 13 ) makes provision for assault causing injury, and section 1 ( 2 )( b ) makes provision for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, on UN staff.

: Section 16 ( 1 )( a ) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 ( c. 2 ) provided that it was an offence to, amongst other things, assault any person duly engaged in the performance of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him by or under any enactment relating to an assigned matter, or any person acting in his aid.

Additionally, if a Defendant has been charged on an indictment with assault occasioning actual bodily harm ( ABH ), or racially / religiously aggravated assault, then a jury in the Crown Court may acquit the Defendant of the more serious offence, but still convict of common assault if it finds common assault has been committed.

; Assault on a constable in the execution of his duty: Section 89 ( 1 ) of the Police Act 1996 provides that it is an offence for a person to assault either:

Following several weeks of aerial bombardment, a U. S .- led United Nations ( UN ) coalition began a ground assault on 23 February 1991 that completely removed Iraqi forces from Kuwait in four days.

On March 23, 1988 western media sources reported from Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan, that several days before Iraq had launched a large scale chemical assault on the town.

The assault on the port was spearheaded by British Royal Marines and Polish GROM troops, but Iraqi forces put up unexpectedly strong resistance, requiring several days ' fighting before the area was cleared of defenders.

Within hours of a palace seizure and with television coverage of this spreading through Iraq, U. S. forces ordered Iraqi forces within Baghdad to surrender, or the city would face a full-scale assault.

In preparation for the assault on the dam, fighters assigned to the 410th Air Expeditionary Wing ( AEW ) conducted preparatory air strikes against Iraqi forces in the dam ’ s vicinity.

Although the Rangers repelled the initial assault, Iraqi counterattacks continued with heavy mortar and artillery shells that rained down on the Rangers.

On 28 March 2003, the 3rd Battalion employed the first airborne assault in Iraq to seize " Objective Serpent " in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

* January 17 – Operation Desert Storm begins as U. S .- led forces attack Iraq in a massive air assault after a United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from occupied Kuwait passes unheeded.

After a British frigate detects 17 Iraqi small boats in the Persian Gulf carrying commandos for use in a seaborne assault during the Battle of Khafji, Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Lynx helicopters attack them with Sea Skua missiles.

If this battle had not been as successful as it was, there would have been a considerable hostile force in the rear of the U. S ./ secular Kurdish force in the subsequent assault on the Iraqi army to the south.

The Mahdi Army, which by then numbered from 3, 000 to 10, 000 men, organized quickly escalating violent riots and then a coordinated assault, surprising coalition and Iraqi forces and seizing control of Najaf, Kufa, al-Kut, and parts of Baghdad and southern cities like Nasiriyah, Amarah, and Basra.

Another, relatively minor, controversy regarded the unopposed looting of still-working Iraqi weapons after the battle, including not only by the U. S. soldiers but also by Saudi civilians ( some of whom then allegedly sold assault rifles on the black market to buyers in the broader Middle East ), as there were no military police units deployed to guard the wreckage.

* November 7 – Second Battle of Fallujah: U. S. Forces launch a major assault on the Iraqi town of Fallujah, in an effort to rid the area of insurgents before the Iraqi elections in January.

* US troops assault the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

The Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, supported by local police and M-84 tanks managed to repel an Airborne assault by Iraqi Special Forces, but the Palace fell after a landing by Iraqi Marines ( Dasman Palace is located on the coast ).

His younger half brother, Sheikh Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, was shot and killed by invading Iraqi forces as he attempted to defend Dasman Palace after which his body was placed in front of a tank and run over, according to an Iraqi soldier who was present and deserted after the assault.

After a series of failed negotiations between major world powers and Iraq, the United States-led coalition forces launched a massive military assault on Iraq and Iraqi forces stationed in Kuwait in mid January 1991.

The following year, 2nd Brigade participated in the largest helicopter air assault in military history to seize Forward Operating Base Cobra. Operation Desert Shield and Desert StormThe “ Strike ” Brigade moved to Saudi Arabia as part of Operation Desert Shield in late summer 1990 to deter a possible Iraqi invasion.

In early November, 1990, Franks was ordered to deploy the VII Corps to Saudi Arabia to join the international coalition preparing to drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait ; and on 24 February 1991, the Desert Storm land assault began, with VII Corps making the main attack.

The Tabuk Sniper Rifle is an Iraqi modification of a Russian designated marksman's rifle, made from as a modified version of the AK-47 assault rifle.

An assault gun is a gun or howitzer mounted on a motor vehicle or armored chassis, designed for use in the direct fire role in support of infantry when attacking other infantry or fortified positions.

In these positions he was charged with planning and carrying out the Allied assault on the coast of Normandy in June 1944 under the code name Operation Overlord, the liberation of Western Europe and the invasion of Germany.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Franklin – The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee, with Hood losing six generals and almost a third of his troops.

* November 30 – American Civil War – Second Battle of Franklin: The Army of Tennessee led by General Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee ( Hood loses 6 generals and almost a third of his troops ).

* An absolute prohibition against the following techniques therefore arises from, is understood in the context of, and is interpreted according to these texts: mock executions ; water-boarding or any other form of simulated drowning or suffocation ; sexual humiliation ; rape ; cultural or religious humiliation ; exploitation of fears, phobias or psychopathology ; induced hypothermia ; the use of psychotropic drugs or mind-altering substances ; hooding ; forced nakedness ; stress positions ; the use of dogs to threaten or intimidate ; physical assault including slapping or shaking ; exposure to extreme heat or cold ; threats of harm or death ; isolation ; sensory deprivation and over-stimulation ; sleep deprivation ; or the threatened use of any of the above techniques to an individual or to members of an individual ’ s family.

Their musket fire, as well as grapeshot fired from ships anchored nearby, intimidated the Americans sufficiently that they never launched an assault on the defensive positions on Mount Independence.

On August 19, 2007, the American Psychology Association ( APA ) voted to bar participation, to intervene to stop, and to report involvement in a wide variety of interrogation techniques as torture, including " using mock executions, simulated drowning, sexual and religious humiliation, stress positions or sleep deprivation ", as well as " the exploitation of prisoners ' phobias, the use of mind-altering drugs, hooding, forced nakedness, the use of dogs to frighten detainees, exposing prisoners to extreme heat and cold, physical assault and threatening the use of such techniques against a prisoner or a prisoner's family.

Union troops prepared to assault Confederate defensive positions south of the city and on a strongly fortified ridge just west of the city known as Marye's Heights.

Thousands of Union soldiers were killed or wounded in a hopeless frontal assault against the fortified positions of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's army.

On 22 June, German assault troops dispensed over 116, 000 shells of diphosgene gas into the entrenched French artillery positions, where Marcel Dupont was located.

What was left of the German assault troops ( Bavarians and Alpen Korps ) was further thinned out by less than sixty French machine gunners, led by a lieutenant Kleber Dupuy, who had emerged from the fort's ruins and taken positions on its superstructure.

The Communists send a small volunteer force that braves a hail of gunfire to climb across the bridge on underlying chains and assault the enemy positions on the other side, hence securing the bridgehead for the rest of the army to cross.

Underestimating the strength of Allied forces on Guadalcanal, Ichiki's unit conducted a nighttime frontal assault on Marine positions at Alligator Creek ( often called the " Ilu River " on U. S. Marine maps ) on the east side of the Lunga perimeter in the early morning hours of August 21.

The German defensive strategy was to operate a front line defence of sufficient strength to defend against an initial assault and move operational reserves forward before the enemy could consolidate their gains or overrun remaining German positions.

In an effort to destroy some German surface fortifications before the assault, the British tunnelling companies secretly laid 13 large explosive charges directly under German positions.

Throughout the night, the Zulus kept up a constant assault against the British positions ; Zulu attacks only began to slacken after midnight, and finally ended by 2: 00 am, instead being replaced by a constant harassing fire from the Zulu firearms-a fire that in turn only ended at 4: 00 am.

Giap planned to launch another assault on French positions in operation Le Hong Phong II.

The guns were carefully concealed, often in nearby olive groves, and some were ordered to hold their fire during the initial assault so that they would not immediately reveal their positions to German fighters and dive-bombers.

General Peter A Dannenberg took command of the Russian Army, and together with the uncommitted 9, 000 men from the initial attacks, launched an assault on the British positions on Home Hill, held by the Second Division.

At this point in the battle the Russians launched another assault on the Second Division's positions on Home Hill, but the timely arrival of the French Army and further reinforcements from the British Army repelled the Russians attacks.

They began to assault the Austrian positions and were soon joined by Oudinot's grenadiers, who were hoping to outflank the Austrians from the north and west.

Schneider calls Wittman's " carefree " advance into British-occupied positions " pure folly " and states that " such over hastiness was uncalled for ", before going on to surmise that if Wittmann had properly prepared an assault involving the rest of his company and the 1st Company, far greater results could have been achieved.

Other than its initial encounter with the 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion's 2nd Company and the subsequent loss of Point 213, the 22nd Armoured Brigade group had repelled every German assault on its positions throughout the two days of fighting.