The Allies failed to accomplish Achieve their objectives for the first day , but gained Getting a tenuous foothold that they gradually expanded Expansion when they captured Conquering the port at Cherbourg on 26 June and the city of Caen on 21 July .

A failed counterattack Attack by German forces on 8 August left 50,000 soldiers of the 7th Army trapped in the Falaise pocket .

Castelnuovo had been conquered Conquering by elements of various Spanish tercios the year before during the failed campaign of the Holy League against the Ottoman Empire in Eastern Mediterranean waters .

In 415 BC , Athens dispatched Sending a massive expeditionary force to attack Syracuse , Sicily ; the attack failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act disastrously , with the destruction of the entire force in 413 BC .

The British colonial government fell in the region of Nova Scotia after several disastrous campaigns in 1757 , including a failed expedition against Louisbourg and the Siege of Fort William Henry ; this last was followed by Indians torturing and massacring their colonial victims .

The Moorgate tube crash occurred Presence on 28 February 1975 at 8:46 am on the London Underground 's Northern City Line ; 43 people died Death and 74 were injured Bodily_harm after a train failed to stop at the line 's southern terminus , Moorgate station , and crashed Catastrophe into its end wall .

The Ten Days ' Campaign ( , ) was a failed military expedition Self_motion by the United Kingdom of the Netherlands against the secessionist Kingdom of Belgium between 2 and 12 August 1831 .

The goal was to besiege Besieging Halmstad , but it failed Earnings_and_losses because of the lack of artillery .

Already in 1925 there were two failed coup attempts on 18 April and 19 July .

tropical storm Catastrophe harvey was the final tropical cyclone in a record-breaking string of eight consecutive storms Catastrophe that failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to attain Achieve hurricane intensity .

Operation Michael failed Earnings_and_losses to achieve Achieve its objectives and the German advance was reversed Change during the Second Battle of the Somme , 1918 ( 21 August – 3 September ) in the Allied Hundred Days Offensive .

Initially a tropical depression , it headed Motion west-northwestward and failed Earnings_and_losses to strengthen Cause_change_of_strength significantly .

The Royals failed Earnings_and_losses to build Building a good opening partnership .

The Highlanders , became Becoming the first team to win Getting the competition Competition having failed Earnings_and_losses to win Getting a conference Social_event .

Thus the Italian front along the Piave river was stabilized Cause_change_of_strength and the Austrians failed Earnings_and_losses to enter Arriving the plains beyond and to take Conquering the city of Venice .

The 1980–81 winners Velež failed Earnings_and_losses to retain the trophy as they were knocked out Competition in the first round by minnows Mogren .

Great Britain returned Arriving to Group A for the first time since 1962 , but failed Earnings_and_losses to even earn Earnings_and_losses a point .

... After much extra , and in my mind , excessive flight training , the chief pilot failed Confronting_problem to qualify . ''

The suspects fled Escaping the scenes after their bombs failed to explode Process_start .

This was the last ship-to-ship action in the region before the successful invasion Attack of Île de France in December 1810 : without Hamelin the French squadron , short on supplies Supply and low on morale , did not contest Competition British control Control of the region and failed Earnings_and_losses to even attempt Hold to disrupt Hindering the invasion Attack fleet .

Other squadrons already at sea became Becoming embroiled in the campaign : a smaller squadron that had been raiding Attack the African coast under Commodore Jean-Marthe-Adrien L'Hermite since August 1805 provided Supply a diversion to the major campaign but failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to draw Removing off significant British forces Military_operation , while the remnants of a French squadron under Contre-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Durand Linois that had been operating Being_in_operation in the Indian Ocean since 1803 was intercepted Preventing_or_letting and defeated Conquering by Warren in March , after a chance encounter on its journey back to France .

The intent was to attack Attack the besieging Parliamentarians from both sides , Charles mistakenly believing Know that Poyntz had failed to follow Motion them .

Polyarnaya Zvezda failed , achieving Achieve only minimal progress .

After the ceasefire Process_end , violence Violence in Belfast and fighting Hostile_encounter in border areas of Northern Ireland continued , and the IRA launched a failed Northern offensive in May 1922 .

The attack Attack failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act , and a small raid Attack that evening inflicted Causation little damage .

in august 1944 , the royal navy conducted Action operation goodwood , four more carrier raids Attack against `` tirpitz '' which also failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act and the task of sinking the battleship was transferred Giving to the royal air force .

Furthermore , USAF leaders had failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to adequately integrate Collaboration U.S. Army helicopter operations into overall OPC air operations .

The Polish coup Change_of_leadership d'état attempt in Lithuania refers to a failed attempt by Polish statesman Józef Piłsudski to overthrow Change_of_leadership the existing Lithuanian government of Prime Minister Mykolas Sleževičius , and install Change_of_leadership a pro-Polish cabinet that would agree Agree_or_refuse_to_act to a union with Poland .

Two of these were placed Placing in the cafeteria , powerful enough to kill Killing or seriously injure Bodily_harm all people within the area , although they failed Confronting_problem to detonate Attack .

Their cars in the parking lots were made into bombs which also failed Confronting_problem to detonate Attack , and at another location away from the school , two bombs were set up Placing as diversions , only one of which partially detonated Attack .

After the ground forces failed Earnings_and_losses to relieve Cure the paratroopers on time , they were overrun on 21 September .

The Allies had failed Earnings_and_losses to cross Motion_directional the Rhine .

It failed Earnings_and_losses , however , to secure a bridgehead over the Rhine , halting Process_end at the river .

Operation Military_operation Market Garden was a failed World War II military operation Military_operation fought Hostile_encounter in the Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944 .

The war began Process_start with a series of skirmishes between James ’ s Irish Army , which had stayed Temporary_stay loyal in 1688 , and militia forces raised Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by Irish Protestants : they culminated Process_end in the Siege of Derry , where the Jacobites failed Earnings_and_losses to regain Control control of one of the north ’ s key towns .

Another five soldiers were killed Killing inside Lebanese territory in a failed rescue Rescuing attempt .

Because of the secretive nature of North Korea and small yield of the test Research , there remains some question as to whether it was a successful test Research of an unusually small device ( which would have required Preventing_or_letting sophisticated technology ) , or a partially failed Confronting_problem `` fizzle '' or dud .

The Charge of the Light Brigade was a failed military action involving Cause_to_be_included the British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War .

Linois had twice failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to capture Conquering , or even seriously engage Hostile_encounter , large and valuable British merchant convoys on his cruise .

Lord Methuen failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to perform adequate reconnaissance Patrolling in preparation for the impending battle Hostile_encounter , and was unaware that Boer `` Vecht-generaal '' ( Combat General ) De la Rey had entrenched his forces at the foot of the hills rather than the forward slopes as was the accepted practice .

This allowed Preventing_or_letting the Boers to survive Preserving the initial British artillery bombardment Attack ; when the British troops failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to deploy from a compact formation during their advance Self_motion , the defenders were able to inflict heavy casualties .

However , this failed Earnings_and_losses to bring about the surrender Surrendering of Chinese forces .

The Loyalists successfully defended Defending a blockhouse against an ineffective bombardment Attack by four American artillery pieces and a failed Earnings_and_losses attempt to storm Attack the position Placing by Wayne 's infantry .

The victory also allowed Preventing_or_letting them to enter Participation the following season 's Champions League competition ( having failed Confronting_problem to qualify for it by their league finishing position ) at the expense of London rivals Tottenham Hotspur , who would otherwise have entered Participation the competition Competition having finished Process_end fourth in the Premier League .

`` Struma '' s diesel engine failed Earnings_and_losses several times between her departure Departing from Constanţa on the Black Sea on 12 December 1941 and her arrival Arriving in Istanbul on 15 December .

Cabin pressurization continued to expand Expansion and contract the improperly repaired bulkhead until the day of the accident , when the faulty repair finally failed Earnings_and_losses , causing Causation the rapid decompression that ripped Removing off a large portion of the tail and caused Causation the loss Earnings_and_losses of hydraulic controls Control to the entire plane .

The operation Military_operation ultimately failed Earnings_and_losses when FRELIMO forces regrouped Cause_to_amalgamate and thrusted further south in the province of Tete , opening Openness a new front and overstretching the Portuguese Army .

although the italians enjoyed a 2:1 numeric superiority , their offensive failed Earnings_and_losses because the italian commander , luigi cadorna , employed Employment frontal assaults Attack after impressive ( but short ) artillery barrages Attack .

The protests Protest were a major driving force for recall elections Change_of_leadership of state senators in 2011 and 2012 , the failed recall of Governor Scott Walker in 2012 and a contentious Wisconsin Supreme Court election Change_of_leadership in 2011 .

The incident Catastrophe was a result of failed negotiations Communication between the Hock Lee Amalgamated Cause_to_amalgamate Bus Company and its bus workers .