The hill was protected by heavily entrenched Chinese infantry as well as mortars at the top of the hill.

Heavier M4s were eventually brought to overcome heavily entrenched positions, though the Stuart continued to serve in a combat capacity until the end of the war.

Staff Sergeant Herman Bottcher, Platoon Commander G Company, 126th Infantry, led 18 men against the defending and heavily entrenched Japanese forces.

Apple has systematically gone after every bit of potential real competition for the iPad, and vice-versa on the phone front from heavily entrenched incumbents (while Apple goes after the smartphones).

Given how heavily entrenched apartheid was in the South African legal system at the time, Mr. de Klerk needed to nullify many previous bills and pass many new ones, making a series of individual referenda impractical.

On 22 July the battalion was ordered to capture West Point 24 on the Tel El Eisa ridge which was held by heavily entrenched Axis forces.

Some 165 He 111s were lost to heavily entrenched Soviet defences around the city during the siege.

In return, the heavily entrenched rebels unleashed a fusillade of rockets from grenade launchers.

The final assault of the Overland Campaign came with the Battle of Cold Harbor-a number of futile attempts by Grant over the course of June 1-3 to break the heavily entrenched Confederate lines.

Some marines in the late 1960's fought heavily entrenched battles, with artillery barrages hurled back and forth, historians say, and military advisers in 1962 and 1963 saw a war that was different from the one soldiers would see seven years later.