The artillery assault started a minute late, and Lewis misinterpreted Clarke's orders to halt as an order to attack immediately.

He commanded the massive artillery assault that allowed the Soviet breakthrough along the Mannerheim Line in 1940.

Israeli forces launched a 16-day air and artillery assault on Hezbollah guerrillas last month after they fired rockets into northern Israel.

New defensive walls were built, equipped with six bastions and two half-bastions capable of resisting artillery assault.

But when government forces opened an artillery assault at dawn, the rebels returned fire.

Specifically, he was wounded while the men under his command were being killed around him in a sudden artillery assault.

At 10:35 p.m. Georgian forces began another artillery assault on Tskhinvali.

Its air force has occasionally bombed civilian and military targets, but never in conjunction with an artillery assault.

Long before the soldiers approached the Jordan River they would face a withering Israeli air and artillery assault.

The major Russian push came on July 4, after a major artillery pre-emptive assault.