Sentence examples for day of battle from inspiring English sources
As everyone says, a war plan doesn't survive the first day of battle.
William Grimes THE DAY OF BATTLE: THE WAR IN SICILY AND ITALY, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson.
The first day of battle saw considerable fighting in the area, Union use of newly issued Spencer repeating carbines, heavy casualties on each side, and the simultaneous conclusion by both commanders that Gettysburg was the place to fight.
On the second day of battle, Meade's 93,000 troops were ensconced in a strong, fishhook-shaped defensive position running northward from the Round Top hills along Cemetery Ridge and then eastward around Culp's Hill.
On February 5, after an advance of 170 miles in 33 hours, the British were blocking the Italians' line of retreat south of Beda Fomm (Bayḍāʾ Fumm); and in the morning of February 6, as the main Italian columns appeared, a day of battle began.
As a matter of history, several similar crimes were committed by Allied soldiers in this conflict and the perpetrators never brought to justice, as Rick Atkinson related in his masterly account of the Italian campaign, "The Day of Battle," published last year.
Saturday's Occupy Oakland, planned as a day of building, became a day of battling, when police responded with force to protesters' attempts to take over a vacant city-owned building, an act organisers admitted was "completely illegal".
The day of battles between the Romney and McCain campaigns, which do little to conceal their distaste for each other, got off to a bare-knuckled start in West Virginia.
PAGE A5 More Violence in Uzbekistan Bombs and gunfire killed up to 23 people during a third day of battles with rebels who the government said were Muslim militants.
I reasoned that after a day of battling being "the only one" or "one of a few" all day I might not want to connect with my partner simply because he was white.
The research, released ahead of the online premiere today (Thursday) of Battle of the Five Armies, the latest instalment in the Hobbit series, found that trailers too often create expectations that feature films are unable to deliver.
