Sentence examples for minor engagement from inspiring English sources

It was used as a supply point by both Confederate and Union troops during the American Civil War and was the site of a minor engagement (December 19 , 1862 led by Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest.

His forces successfully captured Tobago in June after a minor engagement with the British fleet.

Gen. Wade Hampton's brigade fought a minor engagement with newly promoted 23-year-old Brig.

The Action of 9 July 1806 was a minor engagement between a French privateer frigate and British forces off Southern Ceylon during the Napoleonic Wars.

During a minor engagement Breslau hit Evstafis forward turret, temporarily putting it out of action, after which the two cruisers escaped using their superior speed.

The Battle of Corydon was a minor engagement that took place July 9, 1863, just south of Corydon, which had been the original capital of Indiana until 1825, and was the county seat of Harrison County.

In nearly 30 years of frontier service buffalo soldiers took part in almost 200 major and minor engagements.

The losses sustained in these two minor engagements brought home the cost of war to the wealthiest and most influential families in Massachusetts.

"There is not a huge amount of population there and there have been a few minor engagements, a few caches have been found.

In the ensuing years the war resolved itself into a multiplicity of minor engagements, which need not be followed in detail.

After two minor engagements disadvantageous to the Danes, King William came to an agreement with Earl Osbjorn that neutralised them.