Although the 5th had "evinced a disposition to make a gallant resistance", it was flanked by the redcoats and forced to retreat in some disorder.

The battle began late on 31 August, when overwhelming force was immediately brought to bear upon the ship, which put up a gallant resistance.

He remained undismayed by intense fire and overwhelming odds, and his gallant resistance only ceased with his death.

After a gallant resistance, the survivors, who had expended all their ammunition, became prisoners of war.

Due to the gallant resistance of the Italian garrison, the British allowed them to surrender with military honors.

Edna had made a gallant resistance, but he was still vigorously about and extraordinarily impatient.

Cut off in Tönning he was forced to surrender after a gallant resistance, and passed into captivity.

After a gallant resistance, they surrendered themselves prisoners of war; one hundred and twenty in number.

Their patrols were broken by the rush of wild, yelling, firing horsemen, but the troopers made a most gallant resistance.

Pulithevar is regarded as the first ruler in Indian history, who sowed the seed, by his gallant resistance, to expel foreigners from his native land.