Last April, as the Marines made their first ill-fated assault on Falluja, Mr. Sadr ignited a bloody uprising in the south against the Americans and proclaimed his support for the people of Falluja.

The biggest losses were suffered during the ill-fated assault on the city of Grozny.

The 2nd/81st did not participate in the ill-fated assault on Bergen op Zoom on 8 March 1814.

After the battle, Pillow spoke in support of General Braxton Bragg's decisions, denigrating Breckinridge's execution in the ill-fated assault.

Assigned to the Regiment of Auxerrois, he participated in the ill-fated assault at the Siege of Savannah on 9 October 1779 during the American War of Independence.

The Battle of Seseña was an ill-fated Republican assault on the Nationalist stronghold of Seseña in October 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.

Raising his own militia force, Arnold joined Ethan Allen in the capture of Fort Ticonder-oga and later attempted a brave but ill-fated assault on Quebec.

But outside Congress, the party's war with President Clinton over whether to balance the budget seemed for the first time to be in retreat, much in the manner of Napoleon's ill-fated assault on Moscow.

One of the more ill-fated assaults came on Tuesday, when a group of insurgents engaged in a firefight with American soldiers near the town of Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad.

Both a young Daniel Boone (age 21) and Daniel Morgan (age 20) worked in the area to plan and carry out the ill-fated assault.