Sentence examples for a given battle from inspiring English sources

Historians argue about whether a given battle was a success or a failure, but, over-all, the military mission was catastrophic on many levels.

It could be that Wilson herself became so absorbed in the inside-baseball of the commission that she, like her author, lost perspective on how much a reasonable reader wants or needs to know about a given battle between liberals and conservatives over who should be named the next staff director.

After Robinson discovered that the arrest was a prank, he gave Battle a hat as a gift anyway.

Guru Gobind Singh assumed all the trappings of a chieftain, gave battle to Mughal forces on more than one occasion, and founded a new centre at Anandpur in 1689.

Ninurta sets out in his boat to give battle, and a fierce engagement ensues, in which Azag is killed.

Iphicrates and two of his colleagues were prosecuted by Chares, the fourth commander, after they had refused to give battle during a violent storm.

On 30 September Verdugo forced Norreys to give battle using a strategy of attrition.

On 4 August 1265 Montfort found himself trapped at Evesham, forced to give battle with a much smaller army than the royals.

As his army was outnumbered, Michael avoided carrying the battle in open field, and decided to give battle on a marshy field located near the village of Călugăreni on the Neajlov river.

Edward, however, routed the younger Simon at Kenilworth Castle, and on 4 August 1265 Montfort found himself trapped at Evesham, forced to give battle with a much smaller army than the royals.

He was pursued by the Duke of Cumberland and gave battle with an exhausted army at Culloden on 16 April 1746, where the Jacobite cause was crushed.