The Collaborative International Dictionary
Storming \Storm"ing\, a. & n. from Storm, v.
Storming party (Mil.), a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
Usage examples of "storming party".
Welf's banner was down among them now, and he and his sworn menprobably a cross between a warband and a real staffwere pushing the remnants and individual survivors of the storming party and the 5th's greeting into line and behind what cover there was, even if only the heaped bodies scattered in clumps across the broad C-shaped arc of the cleared zone they held.
The low glacis had protected the bottom part of the walls, and though some of the north-west bastion's stones had fallen into the flooded ditch there was no ramp up which a storming party could climb.
If Kenny failed then the second storming party would try to go farther, but if Kenny succeeded they would secure the Outer Fort while Kenny's troops went on to assault the Inner.
Therefore the storming party died to the last man, and, as vanBuskirk had foretold, it was scarcely even a struggle.
The men poured by, first the detailed storming party, then the rest of the machine's crew, flinging themselves up the ladders and across the drawbridge without a pause.