Sentence examples for a decisive battle on from inspiring English sources

It was the site of a decisive battle on October 23, 1864, in which a Confederate army led by General Sterling Price was forced to retreat by a Union army commanded by General Samuel Curtis; it was the war's last major battle west of the Mississippi River.

"It is a decisive battle for both sides".

We will fight a decisive battle to the end".

They take Roe as an inspiration, an example of how one side can lose a decisive battle yet fight on in a long war.

Montrose defeated him at Inverlochy in February 1645 and at Kilsyth in August, but Argyll helped rout the Royalist general in a decisive battle at Philiphaugh on September 13.

After capturing Bosra, Khalid instructed all the corps to join him at Ajnadayn where they fought a decisive battle against the Byzantines on 30 July 634.

Waterloo was a decisive battle in more than one sense.

Calling the parliamentary elections a "decisive battle" between Russia and Georgia, he claimed on March 12th that "democracy is always won by the people".

In answer to a question about whether Falluja was a decisive battle, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday on MSNBC's "Hardball," "Well, there's no question that, for success in Iraq, you can't have a city taken over by a bunch of terrorists and the former regime elements and have that persist over a sustained period of time".

A decisive battle looms and it's kill or be kilt on the expanded second-season finale of the fantasy drama "Outlander".

In 1815, Wahhabi forces were crushed by the Egyptians (acting on the Ottoman's behalf) in a decisive battle.