What is "counterattacking"

Usage examples of "counterattacking".

The panic started among the voltigeurs by the counterattacking Portuguese had helped the riflemen escape Loup's first assault, but that panic was subsiding as Loup's main force arrived through the captured gatehouse.

Loup turned to see that his pagan banner of wolf tails hanging from an eagle's cross-bar was held high, and then, as the counterattacking British troops poured into the village streets, he ordered the advance.

Getting to Leyte from Japan itself, counterattacking Japanese units could steam down the eastern side of the archipetago and head straight in.

Sometimes he wheedled his way out of them by arguing that we would soon need all those bridges and other facilities, to support the Fuhrer's brilliant plans for counterattacking and regaining the lost territory.

Sharp queries shoot at him about the delay in counterattacking, about the failure to mobilize, about the extent of losses, about the Arab victory claims.

The Marine artillery couldn't fire too closely to the southern end of the ridge top for fear of hitting the counterattacking Marines.

Bowie tugged at Musica's arm because a sudden rush by counterattacking guards might put Musica in jeopardy before Sean's Battloid could make them see reason and drive them back.

The attacking enemies' ability to fight, their very will to fight, seemed to have simply vanished, and Earth's ragtag defenders were counterattacking everywhere, a complete rout.

Although British malice, too, clustered about the head of General Lanrezac, an anonymous spokesman for the British Army ultimately de­clared that Lanrezac’s decision to retreat instead of counterattacking on August 23 spared “another Sedan.

The yacht's heaviest weapons, or at least the heaviest Hawksmoor dared to employ so near the station, lashed out at the swarm of counterattacking berserker machines, scattering, burning, crushing, wiping one after another of them out of existence.

The Germans contested every lump of dirt in their country like wolves defending their cubs, retreating only when they were forced to, counterattacking at every opportunity, draining the blood from the advancing Russian units as they brought every weapon they had to bear.