Sentence examples for inconclusive battle from inspiring English sources

On the morning after the somewhat inconclusive battle at Borodino, Napoleon made him prince de la Moskowa.

From time to time as these creations encounter one another, a noisy but inconclusive battle erupts, and then matters subside until general lassitude dictates further combat.

As commander in chief of the West Indies, John Byron fought an inconclusive battle with the Count d'Estaing off Grenada in 1779.

Bragg and Smith would abandon Kentucky after the bloody and inconclusive battle, but the disappointing refusal of Kentucky civilians to join the Confederate Army proved to be the most influential factor in Bragg's decision to retreat into Tennessee.

In the aftermath of the inconclusive battle, Lee suspected that the right flank of McClellan's army was "in the air" — not anchored to any natural formation, and thus vulnerable to attack.

Its lawyers have exported the separation of powers to ex-communist states; and even the excruciating Lewinsky saga, with its drawn-out, divisive and inconclusive battle between president and Congress, prompted remarkably little questioning of the system.

It anticipated the First World War, in that it was a "body-count war," with bloody and inconclusive battles, fought mostly by men shooting from entrenchments.

American forces have handed two towns, Fallujah and Baquba, to their opponents after inconclusive battles.Other forces are also seeking to carve out their zones.

Something must be done quickly, or a series of brutal and inconclusive battles, probably involving countless civilian casualties, is likely to ensue.

He began to move half-heartedly toward Verdun but made a stand at Borny (August 14), where he was wounded, and fought inconclusive battles at Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte (August 16 18).

The key to understanding how and why race continues to structure and divide American society does not lie in the Civil War, but in the inconclusive battles waged in the wake of Emancipation to "achieve our country," in the words of James Baldwin.