The relieving troops ransacked and burnt the city to the ground.

Then the relieving troops were attacked by an overwhelming hostile force, and the hill was lost.

Little could be done beyond holding the line and frequently relieving troops, who found the physical and mental strain almost unbearable.

The forts could store sufficient supplies to enable the defenders to hold out for a few weeks, and to supply relieving troops.

Lord Kitchener who commanded the relieving troops commented, "Only colonials could have held out and survived in such impossible circumstances."

The 3rd Division arrived in Sharpsburg, Maryland on the morning of September 18, 1862, relieving troops from the previous days' engagement.

Both bridges were held until the arrival of relieving troops, and on the 16th, after very bitter fighting, a small foothold was established north of the Simeto.

The remainder of the 83rd Infantry and 3rd Mountain Divisions, encircled south of Velikiye Luki, fought their way west to meet the relieving troops.

The one on the left, we are told, ran for three miles into the country; by it the relieving troops poured in with provisions to the help of the gallant defenders already mentioned.

He becomes an unwitting hero: the defender of Piper's Fort, where he is the only surviving white man, and is found by the relieving troops clutching the flag and surrounded by enemy dead.

Gradually, though, as the rest of the column led by his uncle on a fine white horse arrived, the survivors who could walk came out of the banqueting hall and allowed themselves to be greeted by the relieving troops.

It provided last-second surveillance and intelligence to the air assault forces, silencing anti-aircraft artillery emplacements, knocking out enemy armored personnel carriers, defending political dignitaries surrounded by enemy troops, and relieving troops in combat.

During the 1940 assault on France and the Low Countries, the division helped beat back an Anglo-French assault on an associated Panzer column in the hopes of relieving troops besieged in Belgium during their full-on retreat.

"Second Lieutenant Connor might then have followed them to cover, but instead attacked upslope toward the emplacement with mass grenades, seriously damaging it and causing it to cease firing until several minutes before the arrival of the relieving troops under-" Hearing it read in these circumstances, it was all as if it had happened to someone else.