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<h2 id="battles-with-notably-successful-frontal-assaults">Battles with notably successful frontal assaults</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Bunker_Hill/AgT23lvk">Battle of Bunker Hill</a> – After two failed attempts, the <a href="/facts/British_Army_during_the_American_Revolutionary_War/zLPGYQ08">British army</a> succeeds in capturing the heights.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Missionary_Ridge/04dmaKHk">Battle of Missionary Ridge</a> – <a href="/facts/Union_Army/WaDC9c06">Union army</a> storms Missionary Ridge after flank attacks are stalled.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Pea_Ridge/mGGSJKgc">Battle of Pea Ridge</a> – Union army routs <a href="/facts/Confederate_States_Army/XlqneAzz">Confederate</a> forces in a frontal assault on the second day.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Spotsylvania_Court_House/5xA87mEx">Battle of Spotsylvania Court House</a> – Union army captures the "Mule Shoe" <a href="/facts/Salient_(military)/u8SqyEsE">salient</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Brusilov_Offensive/LoT0s6A2">Brusilov Offensive</a> – <a href="/facts/Imperial_Russian_Army/eUBgLeFn">Russian</a> army breaks <a href="/facts/Austro-Hungarian_Army/XLRpwQQY">Austro-Hungarian</a> lines during the <a href="/facts/First_World_War/vITTUanQ">First World War</a>, though infiltration tactics were used.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Vimy_Ridge/JpGonWk1">Battle of Vimy Ridge</a> – Operationally, a frontal assault, though new platoon-based tactics enabled tactical maneuver at the lowest levels.</li></ul> <h2 id="battles-with-notably-unsuccessful-frontal-assaults">Battles with notably unsuccessful frontal assaults</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Carillon/T7Pz3lHH">Battle of Carillon</a> – A classic example of tactical military incompetence.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Gettysburg/wx9evLcK">Battle of Gettysburg</a> – <a href="/facts/Pickett%2527s_Charge/U1TU6KNH">Pickett's Charge</a> aims at the Union center and is repulsed.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Fredericksburg/moG6o9gH">Battle of Fredericksburg</a> – Union army fails to take Marye's Heights.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Second_Battle_of_Franklin/KRrxUAPA">Battle of Franklin</a> – Repeated Confederate charges are repulsed.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Balaklava/8M4U7Yzs">Battle of Balaklava</a> – The <a href="/facts/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade/BgQPcyBK">Charge of the Light Brigade</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Cold_Harbor/EYW1R5jJ">Battle of Cold Harbor</a> – Union assaults repulsed by Confederate forces with heavy casualties.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Longewala/Y0hth4dR">Battle of Longewala</a> – Failure of <a href="/facts/Pakistan_Army/LonsGhBg">Pakistan Army's</a> 206 and 51 Brigades with 2000-3000 men and 40 tanks attack on 120 Indian soldiers of the A company of the <a href="/facts/Punjab_Regiment_(India)/wUljSBS5">Punjab Regiment</a> defending the <a href="/facts/Longewala/WbTDts0o">Longewala</a> border post.</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_established_military_terms/I2lNAqDg">List of established military terms</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_military_tactics/qhz3LYaz">List of military tactics</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Military_science/up3hKbIj">Military science</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Rush_(computer_and_video_games)/lY1gCLXx">Rush (computer and video games)</a></li></ul>