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Battles generally are well defined in duration, area and force commitment.

Battles are, on the whole, made up of a multitude of individual combats, skirmishes and small engagements within the context of which the combatants will usually only experience a small part of the events of the battle's entirety.

Battles frequently do not fit one particular type perfectly, and are usually hybrids of different types listed above.

Battles are usually named after some feature of the battlefield geography, such as the name of a town, forest or river, commonly prefixed " Battle of ...".

When a battleground is the site of more than one battle in the same conflict, the instances are distinguished by ordinal number, such as the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.

An extreme case are the twelve Battles of the Isonzo — First to Twelfth — between Italy and Austria-Hungary during the First World War.

In Estarreja in the Central region of Portugal, the town's first references to Carnival are noted in the 14th century, with " Flower Battles ", or richly decorated floats which paraded through Estarreja's streets.

Within the front entrance to the City hall, there are several memorial placards related to the WW1 Battles and in particular, one has the inscription ' MONS WAS RECAPTURED BY THE CANADIAN CORPS ON THE 11th NOVEMBER 1918: AFTER FIFTY MONTHS OF GERMAN OCCUPATION, FREEDOM WAS RESTORED TO THE CITY: HERE WAS FIRED THE LAST SHOT OF THE GREAT WAR '.

An earlier text, Baile Chuinn Cétchathaigh ( The Ecstatic Vision of Conn of the Hundred Battles ") gives a poetic list of kings, many of which are recognisable from the traditional List of High Kings of Ireland, but without narrative context.

Battles of particular interest or significance are too numerous to list here, but suffice it to say that this period saw a myriad of strategic and tactical developments, and some of the longest sieges and largest battles in the history of the pre-modern world.

Inside the House of the King are the Sala de las Batallas ( Hall of Battles ), which contains frescoes of the battles of San Quintín and Higueruela, among others.

The game's design and rules are drawn largely from those of the tabletop wargame Star Fleet Battles.

The following are known Battles of the Spanish – American War ...

Johnston was wounded and replaced on June 1 by the more aggressive Robert E. Lee, who reorganized his army and prepared for offensive action in the final battles of June 25 to July 1, which are popularly known as the Seven Days Battles.

Among his other books the most valuable are History of the French in India ( 2nd ed., 1893 ) and The Decisive Battles of India ( 3rd ed., 1888 ).

The Kzin are also represented in the lore of the Star Fleet Battles universe tabletop gaming system, with a number of scenarios and starship sheets devoted to them.

Battles are lost on all fronts and the Concordia is destroyed.

Battles are also conducted at " Colosseums " in several cities.

Battles for the first three games are fought in first-person and are turn-based.

The battles fought by Lee against McClellan from June 25 to July 1, 1862, are often called the Seven Days Battles.

* Gang wars: Battles with enemy gangs are prompted whenever the player ventures into enemy territory and kills at least three gang members.

Warren participated in the next day's Battles of Lexington and Concord, which are commonly considered to be the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

Battles in civil wars have often decided the fate of monarchs or political factions.

Since hostage rescue in friendly territory is different from that in hostile areas, it was decided to establish an elite civilian force, which develops and practices a special CQB ( Close Quarters Battles ) doctrine for " counter-terrorism " operations in friendly territory and hostage rescue.

Battles ebb and flow as a result of the ebb and flow of a game of fidchell, games play themselves, great events are decided on the outcome of a fidchell match, and so on.

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Ares may also be accompanied by Kydoimos, the demon of the din of battle ; the Makhai (" Battles "); thev " Hysminai " (" Acts of manslaughter "); Polemos, a minor spirit of war, or only an epithet of Ares, since it has no specific dominion ; and Polemos's daughter, Alala, the goddess or personification of the Greek war-cry, whose name Ares uses as his own war-cry.

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Battles can be planned, encountered, or forced by one force on the other when the latter is unable to withdraw from combat.

Battles can also be determined by terrain.

Through constant pressure by both infantry and cavalry, two Ottoman armies in the Judean Hills, were kept off-balance and virtually encircled during the Battles of Sharon and Nablus which have become known as the Battle of Megiddo.

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Battles arose through clashes between besiegers and relieving armies, but the principle was a slow grinding victory by the greater economic power.

Wargames also diversified in subject, with the first science-fiction wargame ( Galactic Warfare, published in the UK by Davco ) appearing in 1973 and one of the longest lasting and most successful ( Star Fleet Battles, published by Task Force Games ) appearing in 1979 ; and in size with both microgames such as Steve Jackson's Ogre, and " monster games " appearing during the decade.

* We owe our freedom to GIs who fought by Peter Thomas, veteran of Hurtgen Forest and Bulge Battles

His further retreat was checked by the German right wing in two blundering battles on August 16 and 18, respectively ( the Battles of Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte ), and he then took refuge behind the defenses of Metz until forced by starvation to surrender on October 29.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord, sometimes known as the Shot heard ' round the world, in 1775, were started in part because General Gage sought to carry out an order by the British government to disarm the populace.

Matters of dispute by the participants and writers and historians since the war have included the wisdom of pursuing an offensive strategy in the wake of the failed Nivelle Offensive, rather than waiting for the arrrival of the American armies in France, the choice to attack in Flanders over areas further south or the Italian front, the climate and weather in Flanders, Haig's selection of General Hubert Gough and the Fifth Army to conduct the offensive, debates over the nature of the opening attack between advocates of shallow and deeper objectives, the passage of time between the Battle of Messines and the opening attack of the Battles of Ypres, the extent to which the internal troubles of the French armies motivated British persistence in the offensive, the effect of mud on operations and the decision to continue the offensive in October, once the weather had broken and the human cost of the campaign on the soldiers of the German and British armies.

Planning by Plumer continued but the demands of the Battles of Verdun and the Somme absorbed the offensive capacity of the British Expeditionary Force.

The plan for a year of steady attrition on the Western Front, with the main effort in the summer being made by the British Expeditionary Force, was scrapped by Nivelle and the French government for a decisive battle, to be conducted in February by the French army, with the British army's contribution becoming a preliminary operation, the Battles of Arras.

He has been chosen by Battles to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England.

* Poke, The Battle of Tours, from the book Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World From Marathon to Waterloo by Sir Edward Creasy, MA

Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign took an amphibious approach, landing his Army of the Potomac on the Virginia Peninsula in the spring of 1862 and coming within of Richmond before being turned back by Gen. Robert E. Lee in the Seven Days Battles.

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