But this time, after the attack on one of their camps, fighters from various groups sought out and engaged the army in combat.
No one is sure what sparked the latest wave of attacks but it seems likely that Mr Tompolo's "boys" engaged the army in a series of skirmishes, provoking it to hit back as hard as it could.MEND says it is fighting for a fairer share of the country's oil revenue to go to the dirt-poor people who live in the area.
A key advisor, Jia Xu, had recommended after the surrender of Liu Cong that the overtaxed armies be given time to rest and replenish before engaging the armies of Sun Quan and Liu Bei, but Cao Cao disregarded the advice.
At Lützen on November 6, Gustav Adolf's Swedish forces engaged the imperial army led by Albrecht von Wallenstein, and a fierce battle ensued.
Apache warriors had engaged the U.S. Army near Tombstone just three weeks before the O.K. Corral gunfight, so the need for weapons outside of town was well established and accepted.
Now commanded by Balinor, Callahorn's reformed Border Legion marched out of Tyrsis and engaged the Northland army at the Mermiddon River, killing many Northlanders before being forced to pull back; the Border Legion used the time gained to retreat to Tyrsis and make preparations for defense.
Due to the mystic's promise, the Xhosan army was ordered into harm's way and engaged the British colonial army in a rare pitched battle.
She arrived at the siege of Orléans on 29 April 1429, but Jean d'Orléans, the acting head of the ducal family of Orléans on behalf of his captive half-brother, initially excluded her from war councils and failed to inform her when the army engaged the enemy.
Worn out from previous campaigns and requesting Bohdan Khmelnytsky to break with Sweden, Alexis of Russia eventually signed the Truce of Vilna or Niemież with the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, and did not engage the Swedish army in any major battle throughout 1657 even though he still reinforced his armies in Livonia.
It was not Edward's initial intention to engage the French army, but at Crécy, just north of the Somme, he found favourable terrain and decided to fight an army led by Philip VI.
Juárez has been a rough place for sometime now, but you pinpoint January 2008 — when Felipe Calderon became president and began to engage the Mexican army in the so-called war on drugs — as the city's definitive tipping point.
