Throughout the next week , nearly continuous combat operations by both sides—designed to keep one another pinned down—created stagnated defensive positions near Orsogna and a narrow pit known as `` The Gully '' .

After being held Defending at the Gully for 10 days , the Canadians succeeded in outflanking German defences , and forcing Hostile_encounter a German withdrawal to the Ortona–Orsogna Line .