All 33 Uses of

assault

in

The Killer Angels

He has been down that spring with the first assault of the heart disease, which will eventually kill him.†
Chpt Frwd.

assault = attack

The assault began to die away The wounded were beginning to come back off the line.†
Chpt 1.4

He looked for Pender's courier, informed him to tell General Pender to continue the assault.†
Chpt 1.4

But if a strong Union force was on a hill to the south...but without Longstreet's Corps a general assault was impossible.†
Chpt 1.4

If he were to attack on the right he would draw the enemy from this position and we could then attempt the assault.†
Chpt 1.6

He was thinking: retreat is not even an option; we must assault or maneuver.†
Chpt 1.6

We will have to occupy dangerous grounds between him and Washington and let the politicians push him to the assault.†
Chpt 2.1

And spread out beyond him and around him Lee's whole army in the dark shade, moving, settling, lining up for the assault, and yet from this point on the ridge under the tree he could look out across the whole valley and see nothing, hear nothing, feel nothing, not even a trembling of the earth, not even one small slow rumble of all those feet and wheels moving against the earth, moving in together like two waves meeting in a great ocean, like two avalanches coming down together down facing sides of a green mountain.†
Chpt 2.1

There was a peculiar hilarity in Longstreet's breast, the mulish foolish hungry feeling you get just before an assault.†
Chpt 2.3

The Regiment bent back from the colors, from the boulder, swung back to a new line, tighter, almost a U. The next assault came against both flanks and the center all at once, worst of all.†
Chpt 2.4

And heard the assault coming, up the rocks, clawing up through the bushes, through the shattered trees, the peeked stone, the ripped and bloody earth.†
Chpt 2.4

Fought off this assault, thinking all the while coldly, calmly, perhaps now we are approaching the end.†
Chpt 2.4

The ground facing the enemy was rocky and steep and heavy with trees, and the ground behind him fell away abruptly, a sheer drop of at least a hundred feet, no worry about assault from that side.†
Chpt 3.1

"General," Longstreet said slowly, "it is my considered opinion that a frontal assault here would be a disaster."
Chpt 3.2 *

Longstreet said, "Give General Hill my compliments and tell him I suggest he reserve his ammunition for the assault."†
Chpt 3.2

They came out into the open again, in front of the point of woods from which Lee would watch the assault, Longstreet looked up the long rise.†
Chpt 3.2

He knew that he would carry it with him as long as he lived, and he could see himself as an old man trying to describe it to his grandchildren, the way the men had looked as they came out into the open and formed for the assault, the way they stood there shining and immobile, all the flags high and tilting and glittering in the sun, and then the way they all kicked to motion, suddenly, all beginning to move at once, too far away for the separate feet to be visible so that there seemed to be a silvery rippling all down the line, and that was the moment when he first felt the real fear of them coming: when he saw them begin to move.†
Chpt 3.6

The generals of Europe are still ordering massed assaults against fortified positions long years after his death, in 1904, at the age of eighty-three.†
Chpt Aft.

assaults = attacks

Definition:

to attack someone or something physically or verbally; or to threaten violence