Sentence examples for military encounter from inspiring English sources
The Battle of Bosworth Field was the final military encounter of the Wars of the Roses.
The romantic younger son, Petya, is swept away by patriotic fervour and dies a pointless death in an unnecessary military encounter.
Lai believes that when two nations meet in a diplomatic or military encounter, they tend to want to, on a simplified level, play the game they know best.
28, 1640), decisive military encounter in the Bishops' War, in which an army of Scottish invaders defeated the English forces of Charles I and captured Newcastle, forcing the king to convene parliament and sacrifice unpopular policies and ministers.
Battle of Nong Sa Rai, (1593), in Southeast Asian history, military encounter between the Tai (Thai) kingdom of Ayutthaya and the Toungoo dynasty of Myanmar (Burma) which put an end to the aggression that had been waged intermittently by Myanmar.
The legislators were held captive in the jungle until FARC announced in June 2007 that all but Mr. López had been killed in what the group called a military encounter.
These civilian deaths were largely caused by starvation, exposure, disease, military encounters, and massacres.
Thus began the first opium war, a series of unequal military encounters lasting until 1842.
In 1989 he forged an agreement with the Soviets that outlined methods for avoiding accidental military encounters.
Yet the previous fall, before significant military encounters had taken place, Lincoln had already announced a plan for gradual emancipation.
A recent report by the European Leadership Network said close military encounters have jumped to cold war levels, with 40 dangerous or sensitive incidents recorded in the past eight months.
