Fearing that the defenders might suffer the same fate as those of Kfar Etzion, Zionist leaders in Jerusalem negotiated a deal for the surrender of the settlements on condition that the Arab Legion protected the residents.

The regiment took part in the subsidiary engagements at Pilckem, Menin Road, Poelcapelle, Passchendaele, experiencing very severe fighting which saw the British suffer very heavy casualties against stiff German defenders in terrible fighting conditions.

Boardings are interesting both because defenders can inflict hits and because the crews locked in mêlée suffer hits first.

The defenders, greatly outnumbered, fought stubbornly before being overwhelmed ; nevertheless, the fall of Wissembourg allowed the Prussian army to move into France and compelled Marshal Mac-Mahon to give battle, and suffer defeat, at the Battle of Wörth August 6.

Although the Australian defenders had been forced back from Point 24, heavy casualties had been inflicted on 21st Panzer Division.

Other defenders hurled down roof tiles and anything else heavy down on the rampaging attackers.

The Union army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates.

Although defense was stiff, the Russians captured the city after two days of heavy fighting and the loss of only 25 dead as opposed to several thousand of the defenders ( including Alimqul, the ruler of the Kokand Khanate ).

The defenders suffered heavy casualties especially from lack of food and mines which the Chinese exploded in tunnels dug beneath the compound.

Despite the heavy bombardment, many of the German defenders had survived, protected in deep dugouts and they were able to inflict a terrible toll on the infantry.

On October 22 of that year, in what is known as the Battle of Red Bank, an attack by 900 Hessian troops, serving under British Major General William Howe, who then occupied Philadelphia, was repelled, with heavy losses on the Hessian side ( including the death of their commander, Colonel Carl Emil Kurt von Donop ) by the 600 Continental defenders under Colonel Christopher Greene.

The Austrian defenders were prepared for the attack: Hohenzollern had deployed his men on two lines, with a heavy skirmisher screen and was occupying a naturally strong position, which had been reinforced with earthworks.

Davout immediately ordered a counterattack on Grosshofen, with Puthod attacking frontally and Gudin from the flank, and made sure that the defenders of Glinzendorf steadfastly hold their ground, while releasing heavy musketry upon the slowly advancing enemy columns.

The defenders inflicted heavy casualties on the attacking army, but after a 20-day siege they were forced to abandon the fort due to a shortage of food and munitions.

The defenders were ready and waiting when the militia arrived and they came under heavy and accurate fire.

During that time the 600 Ottoman defenders had suffered from the heavy artillery bombardment ; in the ensuing fight in the redoubt and subsequent pursuit by the Cossacks, an estimated 170 Ottomans were killed.

After about a third of the defenders had retreated, the final assault on the Royalist garrison came out of a heavy mist and hit the Royalist command post.

Although the British were nevertheless repelled by the defenders at the Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor, Chauncey immediately withdrew into Sacket's Harbor until mid-July, when a new heavy sloop of war had been completed.

The defenders were alerted by the explosions and opened fire, inflicting heavy casualties ; only four men assigned to assault Casemate Four survived long enough to reach the casemate, which they disabled by firing into apertures and throwing grenades into air vents.

After heavy fighting against the Hermann Göring Division and 3rd Parachute Regiment all day on 2 August, the town was finally cleared of defenders on the morning of 3 August.

After a half-hour of heavy fighting throughout the fort, Travis, Bowie, and most of the defenders were dead.

In the 1990s the indeterminacy thesis came under heavy attack by liberal and conservative defenders of the rule of law, and the debate, though its mantle is in the process of being taken up by a new generation of scholars, has left the intellectual spotlight for the time being.

At Crete, long-range rifle and machine gun fire from dug-in Commonwealth defenders ( largely New Zealanders from 5 Brigade's 22nd Battalion ) inflicted heavy casualties upon the outgunned German paratroopers in the early stages of battle as they attempted to retrieve their support weapons from containers scattered all over the battlefield.

On the return, the eloquence of the cubicularius Sergius convinced the defenders of Melnik to surrender, another heavy blow for the Bulgarians as the town guarded the main road to Sofia from the south.

On 21 November, Francis attempted an assault on the city through two of the breaches, but was beaten back with heavy casualties ; hampered by rainy weather and a lack of gunpowder, the French decided to wait for the defenders to starve.

It seems likely that he had overestimated the effectiveness of the very heavy bombardment of the Pā and anticipated little resistance from the defenders.

The 2nd Panzergrenadier Regiment's 2nd Battalion was able to surround the square, after taking heavy casualties from Soviet snipers and other defenders, by evening.

The other solution was to rely on heavy howitzers ( 152 mm and 203 mm ) firing over open sights to blast defended buildings and to use anti-aircraft guns against defenders posted on the higher floors.

The 21st Panzer Division met French troops at Faïd and despite excellent use of the French guns, which occasionally caused heavy casualties among the German infantry, the defenders were easily forced back.

All across the battlefield, despite significant losses, the Union defenders held their lines.

British losses did not exceed 100 while the defenders lost over 300.

Since the Indians were able to use the defenders advantage, they managed to inflict heavy losses on the Pakistanis.

After a successful defence of Vítkov Hill and the crusaders ' withdrawal, the Hussites begun artillery fire on Vyšehrad, but received heavier losses than Prague's defenders.

Until the return of the Luftwaffe over Malta, the RAF defenders had claimed 199 aircraft shot down from June 1940 — December 1941, while losses were at least 90 Hurricanes, three Fairey Fulmars, one Gladiator in air combat ; ten more Hurricanes and one Gladiator destroyed in accidents, and many more destroyed on the ground.

These groups managed to inflict considerable losses on the German defenders from the 30th Infantry Division and the 24th Infantry Division, which included some 1, 500 German soldiers killed and wounded in action and 3, 000 taken prisoner during the initial push.

The heavy losses inflicted upon the numerically superior enemy force attest to the physical courage, determination, and skill of the defenders.

The assault by the 5th New Zealand Brigade on the left of the attack inflicted heavy losses on the Italian defenders, and the New Zealanders beat off Axis counter-attacks the next morning.

The second stage of the Invasion caused major losses for the Dominarian defenders.

The defenders hold out and kill hundreds of charging Mexican soldiers, further boosting morale, although the Texans ' own losses are not insignificant.

This relates back to 1945 when C Squadron, 14th / 20th King's Hussars assaulted the town of Medicina in Italy alongside the 2nd Battalion, 6th Gurkha Rifles, inflicting heavy losses on the German defenders despite being outnumbered.

In February 1919, Polish troops attempting to capture Sambir were defeated by the Ukrainian defenders with heavy losses, although the poor mobility of the Ukrainian troops prevented them from taking advantage of this victory.

Cromwell's 8, 000 men eventually took the town from its 2, 000 Irish defenders, but not before they suffered losses of around 2, 000 soldiers.

The artillery of the enemy also caused serious losses amongst the city defenders.

Nonetheless, the Japanese forces suffered serious losses, as the Russian defenders were well positioned to use hand grenades and machine guns against the tightly packed mass of Japanese soldiers.

The artillery of the enemy also caused serious losses to the city defenders.

The ensuing battle lasted eight hours causing terrible losses to the defenders ; Chung Yee was wounded in the right arm.

Greatly outmanned, the lightly armed Marines failed to overcome the deeply entrenched, heavily armed Japanese defenders in the resulting Battle of Bairoko and were turned back after horrific losses in dense jungle fighting.