What is "assailants"

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On the 28th Kimberley had been relieved, the Boer army was scattered or taken, the lines of Magersfontein were in our possession, Clements found his assailants retiring before him, Gatacre was able to advance at Stormberg, Buller had a weakening army in front of him, and Ladysmith was on the eve of relief.

Those in the rear pushed on the foremost assailants, and it was an incessant struggle with revolvers and hatchets.

The first signs of the approach of day doubtless determined the retreat of their assailants, who scampered away towards the North, passing over the bridge, which Neb ran immediately to raise.

But the parapet was too high to be scaled under such a fire as proceeded from the walls, and, struggling bravely but vainly, the assailants were, after suffering severe slaughter, driven out of the ditch.

It was planned by the assailants to convey a portion of their force secretly down the Pedee, and land them in the water suburb of the town, which, being deemed secure, was left unguarded.

The assailants were unprovided with the necessary implements for battering or bombarding.

For a moment, the assailants were at fault, and, without artillery, the prospect was sufficiently discouraging.

At every point the assailants found the same scattered but impenetrable fringe of riflemen, and the same energetic batteries waiting for them.

The occupants of the sangars were killed to a man, and the assailants rushed onwards.

On the other hand they were not strong enough to leave their shelter in order to drive in the British guard, who, lying in extended order between the wagons and the assailants, were keeping up a steady and effective fire.

The small guard beat off their assailants in the most gallant fashion, and held their own until relieved by Brabazon upon the following morning.

All day they held their assailants at bay, and it was not until evening that their ammunition ran short and they were forced to surrender.

They could make no impression, however, upon the steady Irish infantry, and after some hours the arrival of General Hart with reinforcements scattered the assailants, who succeeded in getting their guns away in safety.

Throwing themselves into the farmhouse of Helpmakaar, and occupying every post of vantage around it, they held off more than a thousand assailants, in spite of the three guns which the latter brought to bear upon them.

At the same time a number of the Boers who had ridden away came back again, having realised how weak their assailants were, and worked round the British flanks upon either side.