Two assaults by Jackson's forces failed to cause significant damage to the dam.

If the strikes did not take place in their proper sequence, the assault would fail.

Despite the artillery support, a new assault on 10 July failed to take the camp.

If the first assault fails, they're quite capable of packing up and going home.

It seemed incredible that such an assault had already failed.

Once their assault failed to produce results most of them settled to earth around the injured girl.

Thomas was taken by surprise as well, knowing that he would be blamed if the assault failed.

The question now, since the assault had failed, was how to extricate the men from their position.

But the second assault failed as badly as the first.

Their assault failed, and the two companies camped around the walls.