Prevost forced Downie into a premature attack, but then unaccountably failed to provide the promised military backing.

I would prefer to strike a month later and preserve the lives of my men than embark on a premature attack only to suffer casualties.

Bursuq's forces soon closed around Roger's armed camp, attempting to lure the Antiochenes and their allies into a premature attack.

After the garrison repelled two premature attacks, Blake arrived nearby with a relief army.

A premature Confederate attack at Arrowfield Church was driven back with heavy losses, but Union forces did not follow up.

Trapped by the premature attack that Gats had launched, The Shadow was moving straight into danger.

The other nations called off their participation in the plot because of the Natchez' premature attack, and the existence of the conspiracy remained conjectural.

On the morning of October 22 he gathered his followers and warned them not to make a premature attack on Basra.

Runeberg's poem tells a story of Sandels having a feast while the enemy mounts a premature attack.

It was as though the notion of such a premature attack had not occurred to him.