What is "attacked"

Usage examples of "attacked".

Greece from the time when she was attacked by Italy, and four British air squadrons were operating with some success from Greek airfields.

Our aid to Greece had been limited in the first place to the few air squadrons which had been sent from Egypt when Mussolini first attacked her.

On the eighth and for three succeeding nights Portsmouth was heavily attacked and the dockyards damaged.

Plymouth was attacked from April 21 to 29, and though decoy fires helped to save the dockyard, this was only at the expense of the city.

The climax came on May 1, when Liverpool and the Mersey were attacked for seven successive nights.

Malta was attacked fifty-eight times in January, and thereafter till the end of May three or four times daily with only brief respites.

By nightfall the enemy were in a desperate plight, with a confused mass of vehicles almost twenty miles in length, blocked in front and attacked in flank.

When the Balkan States attacked Turkey in 1911, in the advent of the First World War, the Italian Government shocked and alarmed the sedate world of those days by leaping across to Tripoli and beginning its conquest.

That was attacked on the twenty-second, from both flanks and from the rear.

The Focke-Wulf and other bombers employed against our shipping must be attacked in the air and in their nests.

Of course, the moment Spain gives way or is attacked we shall dispatch two expeditions which we have long been holding in readiness, one from Britain to one of the islands in the Azores, and subsequently to a second island, and the second expedition to do the same in the Cape Verdes.

Nevertheless, I was impressed with offensive spirit of Yugoslav leaders, who will fight if Yugoslavia is attacked or if Germany attacks Salonika.

Were the British forces so far tied up in naval defence that Britain could not afford to reinforce her Eastern possessions if Japan attacked them?

On April 2 General Wavell reported that the forward troops in Cyrenaica were being attacked by a German colonial armoured division.

Enemy convoys passing to and from Africa must be attacked by our cruisers, destroyers, and submarines, aided by the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Air Force.