Sentence examples for war engagements from inspiring English sources

Civil War engagements were few in the state, although the war itself was in part precipitated by the seizure of the federal armoury at Harpers Ferry in 1859 by a small band of men under the antislavery zeal of John Brown.

We know the rules of war, engagement, and the escalation of force.

The idea was to re-enact the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Civil War engagement known as Gen. Robert E. Lee's greatest victory.

It was involved in the battles of La Palma (a civil war engagement in 1855 that led to Ramón Castilla's victory) and of Miraflores (which led to the Chilean occupation of Lima in 1881).

Battle of Perryville, (October 8, 1862), in the American Civil War, engagement of Union and Confederate troops as General Braxton Bragg was leading the Confederates in an advance on Louisville, Kentucky, from Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Battle of Monocacy, (July 9 , 1864, American Civil War engagement fought on the banks of the Monocacy River near Frederick, Maryland, in which Confederate troops under Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early routed Union forces under Major General Lewis Wallace.

Africa Command's mission is to "engage" with brother armies, its commanders have a professional bias to action, and they often do not take strategic direction from civilians until they are ready to present their war, engagement and training plans, whether in Colombia or Pakistan or Uganda.

Asked if there should be an inquiry into the role of British troops, he said: "I think anything that suggests that basic rules of war, conflict and engagement have been broken or that torture has been in any way condoned are extremely serious and need to be looked at.

The Wilderness — where, in the spring of 1864, Grant first attacked Lee — was among the most nightmarish of the war's engagements.

Things being: globalization and foreign competition; the decline of the manufacturing base; petroleum-producing nations controlling the price of oil; and the unsustainable costs of cold war military engagements and deployments.

Battles of Bull Run, also called battles of Manassas or Manassas Junction, in the American Civil War, two engagements fought in the summers of 1861 and 1862 at a small stream named Bull Run, near Manassas in northern Virginia; both battles gave military advantage to the Confederacy.