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.

A possible influence from World War One, if one must be found, can be seen in the terming of the 5 Battles of Beleriand as Battles when each actually contains more than one battle and, like the Battle of the Somme, more properly might be called an Offensive.

Battles in Rome: Total War can feature thousands of individual soldiers, organised into ' units '.

Battles take place on a separate screen, but all characters ( rather than waiting in one spot and taking damage ) are fully mobile in three dimensions, can dodge and chase foes, and must cast their spells and deploy attacks despite enemy harassment.

He endorses Tama drums, and is also well known for his Zildjian K ride cymbal perched as high as it can go when playing with Battles.

* Team Battles, in which one can fight with up to 11 characters.

* Team Elimination Battles, in which one has to finish his or her opponents off with Fatals ( finishing moves similar to Mortal Kombats Fatalities, which can be executed immediately ) instead of simply depleting their life bar with normal moves, or they will simply return later on in the match ( however as the computer player will sometimes use Gargos as the last opponent, victims can be removed from play anyway as he lacks a finishing move ).

Battles can take place on a planet ( land battle ) or above the planet ( space battle ).

* The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles ( 2002 ), a motivational book that investigates the psychology of creating art and how " writer's block " can be cured.

Battles can be conducted either in real time or in a turn-based mode, where the player can take time determining what enemies to attack or what spells to cast.

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.

' I am she that is the natural mother of all things, mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of powers divine, Queen of heaven, the principal of the Gods celestial, the light of the goddesses: at my will the planets of the air, the wholesome winds of the Seas, and the silences of hell be disposed ; my name, my divinity is adored throughout all the world in divers manners, in variable customs and in many names, [...] Some call me Juno, others Bellona of the Battles, and still others Hecate.

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.

According to Mandos ' prophecy, following Melkor's final return and defeat in the Dagor Dagorath ( Battle of Battles ), the world will be changed and the Silmarils will be recovered by the Valar.

Battles may last anywhere from a half-hour to a whole weekend, and battles may be strung together to form campaigns.

During the 150th commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the famous First and Second Battles of Manassas will be re-enacted.

This battle, especially since Edward Gibbon addressed it in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Sir Edward Creasy wrote his The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, has been considered by many historians to be one of the most important battles of Late Antiquity, at least in the Latin-speaking world.

In Europe, the pedigree of Niall Noígíallach would be contender for the longest, through Conn of the Hundred Battles ( fl.

The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the " Battles for Leyte Gulf ", and formerly known as the " Second Battle of the Philippine Sea ", is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history.

Zocchi has designed a few games himself, including Alien Space, Star Fleet Battle Manual ( not to be confused with Star Fleet Battles ), The Battle of Britain, Luftwaffe, Flying Tigers, Hardtack, and Battle Wagon Salvo.

The most severe of what came to be known as " the Border Battles " erupted during October and November around Dak To, another border outpost in Kontum Province.

Its slogan, " The Mother of all Games ", was coined in 1991, during the Gulf War, after Saddam Hussein threatened the U. S. that if they stepped on Iraqi soil, it would be " The Mother of all Battles ".

Chikamatsu's popularity peaked with his domestic plays of love-suicides, and with the blockbuster success of The Battles of Coxinga in 1715, but thereafter the tastes of patrons turned to more sensational gore fests and otherwise more crude antics ; Chikamatsu's plays would fall into disuse, so even the actual music would be lost for many plays.

Many times, Battles would set out to attack, and be almost wiped out in the process.

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.

During the war, more battles were fought in Virginia than anywhere else, including Bull Run, the Seven Days Battles, Chancellorsville, and the concluding Battle of Appomattox Court House.

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

During World War I, the whole area was the theatre of the Battles of the Isonzo, fought between Italy and Austria-Hungary.

Battles were fought, damaging cities and killing or injuring thousands.

Leicester's own standing militia fought along with other minutemen at the first conflict between Massachusetts residents and British troops, the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.

He was a veteran of the American Revolution having fought at the Battles of Trenton and Princeton.

Baker Pasha accompanied the British force, and guided it in its march to the scene of his defeat, and at the desperately fought second battle of El Teb he was wounded ( See: Battles of El Teb ).

The historical Enrique of Castile wandered, as knight errant and poet, to wage wars in Tunis, Naples and Sicily where he fought in those Battles of Benevento and Tagliacozzo, and became a prisoner of the Pope and Charles d ' Anjou in Canosa di Puglia, and Castel del Monte, from 1268 to 1291, where he would have reputedly written a good part of Amadis, before returning to Spain to become Regent of Castile, before his death in 1304.

Battles were fought in Gondor, Rohan, Lothlórien, Mirkwood, at the Lonely Mountain and at Dale.

Saruman's Uruk-hai fought against the Rohirrim at the Battles of the Fords of Isen, at the first of which King Théoden's son Théodred was killed, and at the Battle of the Hornburg, where the vast majority of the Uruks were defeated and destroyed.

Battles were fought with weapons like the sword, sling, spear, and bow and arrow.

In the campaign of 1734 he was one of the chief commanders on the French side, and he fought the Battles of Parma and Guastalla.

Conversely, the Battles of Plataea and Mycale were both fought from a relative position of Greek strength, and against lesser odds ; perhaps the Greeks were even expecting to win and had certainly seen the opportunity to deal the final blow.

Freyberg, commanding the troops which fought what later became known as the Second and Third Battles of Monte Cassino, became convinced the abbey, founded in 529 A. D., was being used as military stronghold.

He fought in the Battles of Trenton, Brandywine, and Germantown.

One battalion fought on the Jerusalem front, participating in Operation Nachshon and the Battles of Latrun.

During World War I, he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and fought in the Battles of the Isonzo, where he was seriously injured.

He fought at the Battles of Kawanakajima in the center division of the Uesugi army.

Battles were fought on its streets, and thousands of displaced villagers became refugees in the city.

The ensuing fight, the Battle of Aljubarrota, was fought in the style of the Battles of Crécy and Poitiers.

He graduated from Baltimore College in 1812 and fought in the Battles of Bladensburg and North Point in the War of 1812.

The Battles of Narvik were fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940 as a naval battle in the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian city of Narvik as part of the Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War.

* first and second Battles of Syracuse in 415 and 414 BC, where Athens fought the Syracusans and Spartans

Lord Lindsey later fought at both Battles of Newbury and at Naseby.