Heavy artillery, machine guns, flame-throwers, tanks and infantry-all were being used in one strong, desperate assault.

An ominous black cloud hung over the field of Evesham as Montfort led his army in a desperate assault on 4 August 1265.

So many sacrifices were being made for me; so much was hanging on this desperate assault.

Then they could hold the Afghulis besieged for weeks or overwhelm them in a single desperate assault, spending lives to save time.

After these desperate assaults the besiegers retired behind the ditch.

The Germans infantry, supported by artillery, made a final desperate assault just before dawn.

The quest was in grim flight from the most desperate assault of the skest.

Planning a desperate assault on a mountaintop in Kentucky for four brigades and a battalion of regular soldiers was a different ballgame.

Undaunted in the face of certain death, Athalia gathers the rebels for a final desperate assault on her brother's castle.

They were prepared to die in one last desperate assault on the foe.