Sentence examples for experiences of battle from inspiring English sources

Lessard pointed to the military's focus on earning one's ranking and dealing with the real experiences of battle.

Churchill was unmoved, however, until the experiences of Battle of Heligoland Bight in August and the Battle of the Falkland Islands in December, seemed to demonstrate that high speed and heavy gun power was a potent combination and vindicated Fisher's long-held belief on the viability of the battlecruiser.

A gifted propagandist who had little real experience of battle, he projected himself as a mujahid, a holy warrior.

By spring of 1862, Josiah had had his first experience of battle, seeing an officer's head shot off and musket balls flying like hail.

Whether fuelled by propaganda or the scarring experience of battle, the certainty in the righteousness of the rebel cause has hardened into something unshakable.

The experience of battle clearly had a profound impression on Bierce; he continued writing about it for the rest of his life.

Scars are medals branded on the flesh and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle".

Quite a contrast with the post-war welfare state consensus which came out of an experience of battle and blitz shared across social classes.

"This time I tried to put them under my helmet," he writes about trying to convey the full experience of battle.

Grant's first experience of battle came in the Mexican War, a conflict in which he believed his country was in the wrong.

An officer of the Yorkshires named Bertie Trevor found his first experience of battle "too terrible for words … We fired 350 rounds a man in my company and did a good deal of execution.