Sentence examples for battles commenced from inspiring English sources

They appointed Sparta officially as the hegemon, the leader of that league, which meant that the Spartans would be in command on land and sea and once the battles commenced they would be in charge.

Washington's curiosity about the uncharted Virginia territory may have given him somewhat of a tactical advantage––he had explored the area and had prior knowledge before the battles commenced.

Instead we retreated behind the shutters of the Helping Hand shelter with the townspeople as the battle commenced.

And the battle commenced, with a blur of break-dance and martial-arts moves set to a thumping score.

Battle commenced between the Football League and Her Majesty's Revenue Customs at the high court on Wednesday over the controversial football-creditors rule.

When battle commenced, the Gauls and Iberian infantry of Hannibal's centre line yielded (without breaking) before the drive of the numerically superior Roman infantry.

This time, however, a Union force appeared on the scene under the command of Gen. W.F. Smith, and a battle commenced, with Carlisle the battleground.

Tanks led the way into town, and as I stayed a kilometer behind at a medic station, the sounds of battle commenced, mortars and machine-gun fire that were accompanied, as ever, by the visuals of war -- smoke plumes that were an arsonist's dream.

Last week, to really help us work out what's right and what's wrong in these shifting, shattering times, battle commenced in earnest between Harry Styles and Jake Bugg – between, so it seems, the fake and the authentic, the bright and the dull.

The trees form a pattern which shows the confrontation between Nelson's ships and the French and Spanish enemy forces just one minute before battle commenced.

After the initial shock I did not do the stiff upper lip thing at all, I decided that this was war and the battle commenced, so in 2010 I had chemotherapy, then a mastectomy then radiotherapy.