The phrase "armed battle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a conflict or confrontation that involves the use of weapons or military force.
Example: "The two factions engaged in an armed battle that lasted for several days, resulting in significant casualties on both sides."
Alternatives: "military conflict" or "armed conflict".
On June 3, in Ciudad Madero, a mayoral candidate and a candidate for the local congress were pinned down during an armed battle between rival drug gangs.
The uprising began as a peaceful protest movement and slowly turned into an armed battle in response to the government's use of overwhelming lethal force.
In fact most Yemenis, who have been mere observers of the armed battle between rival groups for control of the capital, already bade farewell to him months ago.
The sickly Mr. Xhaferi's deputy, Menduh Thaci, has spoken about how "the Albanians are beginning an armed battle for the liberation of their territories in Macedonia".
"I was baptized on October 4 , 1993 in the White House," she said, recalling the days of the armed battle between the Parliament, in what is known as the White House, and the Yeltsin forces.
The ensuing truck trip over the border and through Iraq, undertaken at great risk and leading to an armed battle — dangers played for laughs — gives the pair an inflated sense of possibility.
With so many armed, battle-hardened and angry young men coming back from the front, there is a danger that the rolling of heads could be more than a metaphor.
In Vicksburg, they forced the resignation of Sheriff Crosby, who countered by forming a temporary black militia, and the two sides squared off in armed battles.
Moreover, he said, fighting may soon give way to famine as the cumulative effects of armed battles, a lack of centralized authority and a severe drought impose a harsh season of heat and suffering in coming months.
(Though it does not. Graffiti on a railway station in a nearby town reads: "Juden Raus!" Poles and Lithuanians still chafe over armed battles between the groups after World War I).
The struggle, which eventually reached the point of armed battles such as the 1816 Battle of Seven Oaks, was mostly over control of Rupert's Land, east of the Continental Divide.
