Sentence examples for accepted battle from inspiring English sources

However, when Cimon continued to bear down on the Persians, they accepted battle.

Diodorus tells us that once the Athenians had arrived, they and the Egyptians accepted battle from the Persians.

But the militant Kizilbash followers of the Ṣafavids forced the shah to accept battle by intercepting the Ottomans before they entered Azerbaijan.

Thereafter, the Russians interfered successfully with the Swedes' communications, and by the summer of 1709 Charles XII had no choice between accepting battle with the Russians or withdrawing once more into Poland.

There can be little doubt from Herodotus' account that Mardonius was prepared to accept battle on his own terms, however.

He placed the Gladiator below and in front of the Italian fighter to tempt the enemy pilot, but could not persuade it to accept battle.

After waiting in vain for the Muslims to accept battle, the strategos turned his army back, but was ambushed by the Muslims who put his men to flight.

To entice his enemy to accept battle, Li Shimin sent his cavalry to raid Dou's supply lines, and positioned his troops at Hulao so as to suggest that only a small force was present.

Although Rupert had counselled the King against accepting battle at Naseby, the opinions of Digby had won the day in council: nonetheless, Rupert's defeat damaged him, rather than Digby, politically.

While police in Liverpool fought to keep rioters out of the city centre, in Birmingham officers accepted the battle was already lost.

There's Mikey, desperate to be accepted and battling with anxiety problems; his older sister, recovering from almost dying because of anorexia; Jared, Mikey's best friend, who just so happens to be the God of cats and mountain lions, and Henna, who leaves at the end of the year but who Mikey is hopelessly in love with.