Although initial reports indicated that gunfire had preceded the attack, no shots were fired during the incident.

He preceded the initial attack with a fifty-minute artillery bombardment, his troops crossing the start lines at 06:00.

Canaris had warned that the Allies would broadcast hundreds of messages to the underground in the months preceding the attack.

No artillery barrage preceded the attack to forewarn the enemy.

Soon we got to tender glances, hand pressures, all the little gallantries which precede the final attack.

Another victim would be named, with useless deaths preceding the attack upon him.

There were no warnings preceding the attack.

Will they resist the heavy shelling preceding the attack?

Sergeant Higgins said it was not clear what had preceded the attack.

It required a minute or two before he could collect his wits and recall the events immediately preceding the attack.