Sentence examples for terrible battle from inspiring English sources

As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns in North Carolina and East Tennessee, as well as countering the raids of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, but suffered disastrous defeats at the terrible Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of the Crater.

It was a terrible battle.

Many of his best poems are like bulletins from some terrible battle: "Beware.

"I was feeling it would be a terrible battle ending up by Christmas-New Year.

The bank failures and bailouts of the fall of '08 called to mind a great and terrible battle.

After a terrible battle early last year, Mr Prabhakaran and almost all the LTTE's commanders were annihilated.It is hard to exaggerate the benefits of this.

"I had the most terrible battles with him and the head of the civil service.

First, he took on school reform, a uniquely Bostonian morass ever since the terrible battles over busing in the 1970s.

It was not without horrendous cost: terrible battles — Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor — marked their paths, battles whose cumulative casualties came to dwarf the horrific losses at Antietam.

In 1986, Paa-Alam was the scene of one of the terrible battles over the Faw Peninsula, where tens of thousands of men died while hardly advancing a step.

"Taro and Capa represent a sort of romantic vision of the stateless person involving themselves in terrible battles: the social battles, the political battles of the time".