Sentence examples for a decisive engagement from inspiring English sources

The Vitoria Basin was the scene in 1813 of the Battle of Vitoria, a decisive engagement of the Peninsular War.

It was a burst of youthful, irreverent energy that was also a decisive engagement in the continuing battle to establish cinema as a serious art form.

In the Battle of Taginae, a decisive engagement during the summer of 552, in the Apennines near present-day Fabriano, the Gothic army was defeated, and Totila was mortally wounded.

Battle of Antietam, also called Battle of Sharpsburg, (September 17 , 1862, a decisive engagement in the American Civil War (1861 65) that halted the Confederate advance on Maryland for the purpose of gaining military supplies.

On October 26, 1813, the Battle of Châteauguay, a decisive engagement of the War of 1812, took place there; a small party of British troops under Colonel Charles de Salaberry repelled an attacking U.S. force, preventing their attempted capture of Montreal.

The Russians avoided Napoleon's objective of a decisive engagement and instead retreated deeper into Russia.

It resumed the next day, and the Japanese withdrew after an artillery bombardment, their orders being "while avoiding any decisive engagement" to "carry out successful resistance to try to delay the enemy advance".

"The general view is that all of the major carriers can withstand the incremental impact of a brief, decisive engagement," said Sam Buttrick, an airline analyst at UBS Warburg.

American naval forces, which in those days in the Far East had generally been strung out along hundreds if not thousands of miles of disparate port calls, "showing the flag," had been cleverly pre-positioned in Hong Kong with orders to take on large amounts of fuel and await a potential decisive engagement with Spain in the Philippines before the war ever started.

After the Athenian victory at Cynossema, both fleets summoned all their ships from around the Aegean to join them for what might be a decisive next engagement.

The Battle of Red Cliffs unfolded in three stages: an initial skirmish at Red Cliffs followed by a retreat to the Wulin battlefields on the northwestern bank of the Yangtze, a decisive naval engagement, and Cao Cao's disastrous retreat along Huarong Road.