For every heroic charge, these soldiers, like any soldiers in war, spent lots of time patrolling, garrisoning, and guarding.

Thus, the initial defeat was covered up by his propagandists, by a very heroic (and Homeric) charge into the teeth of an extremely poorly deployed enemy.

His senior commander, General d'Hautpoul, was fatally wounded during his heroic charge at Eylau.

This game is unlikely to be won by a single, heroic charge.

It had been a heroic and ultimately suicidal charge.

After a terrible two hour artillery battle, and the heroic uphill charge of thousands, only a few hundred temporarily broke the Union lines.

Gregory Benford The young had not yet learned that death was not a dramatic outcome of a heroic charge.

He didn't know whether to make a heroic charge forward or to swim quietly with the current.

That makes him stronger than the most heroic charge, or the vain screams of savage tribes.

Carried on in the momentum of the heroic charge, the rammers clattered across the fallen gates and over the courtyard, the battering ram still held high.