Attack

Any general a ault or onset that is given to gain a post or break a body of troops. False attack , a feigned or secondary movement in the arrangements of an a ault, intended to divert the attention of an enemy from the real or principal attack. Such a movement has been sometimes converted into a real attack, and succeeded when the main a ault, to which it was intended to be subsidiary, had failed. Attack of a siege is a furious attack made by the besiegers by means of trenches, galleries, saps, breaches, or mines, etc., by storming any part of the front attack. To attack in front or flank , in fortifications, means to attack the salient angle, or both sides of the bastion.