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.

The Revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the Battles of Lexington and Concord ( 1775 ) and ended with the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1789.

Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localized to a specific area and over a specific period of time.

The larger and more famous battles were the Battles for Chattanooga ( generally referred to as the Battle of Chattanooga ) in November 1863.

Also Mc Battles are having a large amount of popularity.

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 are decided by various factors.

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 affect the individuals who take part, as well as the political actors.

They participated in most of the major engagements of the war, including the Battles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, as well as the Yorktown campaign.

This information below originates from the board wargame Star Fleet Battles, as well as related game systems such as Prime Directive and Federation and Empire.

On June 7, after having received word of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, as well as the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and Benedict Arnold's subsequent raid on Fort Saint-Jean, he wrote to Colonial Secretary Dartmouth:

The playable races match those from Star Fleet Battles, as do many ship functions and ship classes, as well as many aspects of gameplay.

After a British army surrendered after the Battles of Saratoga in upstate New York in 1777, Loyalists and their Iroquois allies raided American Patriot settlements in the region, as well as the villages of American-allied Iroquois.

" Mark Ravina, the author of The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori, argued that " Satsuma Rebellion " is not the best name for the war because the English name does not well represent the war and its Japanese name.

Pokémon Battles serve as a useful way of exercise for the Pokémon as well as the main source of income for a Pokémon Trainer.

Despite their divergent backgrounds, the 29th Massachusetts and the rest of the brigade fought well together, earning plaudits for hard campaigning during the Seven Days Battles ; most notably at Savage's Station, Glendale, and Malvern Hill.

Alongside recording his own material, Hebden has also performed remixes for a number of artists including Aphex Twin, Anti-Pop Consortium, Bonobo, Beth Orton, Born Ruffians, Explosions in the Sky, Super Furry Animals, Radiohead, Manic Street Preachers, Matthew Dear, Sia, Nathan Fake, Bloc Party, Andrew Bird, Kings of Convenience, Battles, Juana Molina, Madvillain, The xx, Foals, and Black Sabbath, as well as producing two albums by psychedelic improvisational group Sunburned Hand of the Man.

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.

After the Battles of Plassey ( 1757 ) and Buxar ( 1764 ) which established British dominion over East India, the Anglo-Mysore wars ( 1766-1799 ), the Anglo-Maratha Wars ( 1775-1818 ), and finally the Anglo-Sikh Wars ( 1845-1849 ) consolidated the British claim over South Asia, resulting in the British Empire in India, though resistance among various groups such as the Afghans and the Burmese would last well into the 1880s.

Grant, according to his own statement " was not long in finding out that the objections to Smith's promotion were well grounded ," but he never stated the grounds of his complaint, and Smith, in the Battles and Leaders series, maintained that they were purely of a personal character.

Then, during the Seven Days Battles, McClellan fell back to the James River well below Richmond, ending the campaign.

Walker also served at Seven Pines as well as at the Seven Days Battles of the Peninsula Campaign in the summer of 1862 under Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan in the Army of the Potomac.

Battles often take place between canon-good and canon-evil characters, such as Jedi and Sith, respectively, in the Parking Lot as well.

This practice is quite common amongst hobbyists who play miniature wargames such as Games Workshop's The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game, Warhammer Fantasy Battles and Warhammer 40, 000, as well as many of the other games produced by other games and miniature manufacturers.

The agreement did not last for long and never came into effect, as the Swedish defeat in the Battles of Warka and Prostki as well as a popular uprising in both Poland and Lithuania put an end both to Swedish power and the influence of the Radziwiłłs.

Gotrek and Felix make ( small ) appearances in many Warhammer Army books during the fourth edition of the game as well as an old version of the magic rulebook for Warhammer Fantasy Battles:

Battles between armies take place in a real-time environment, similar to real-time strategy games, with players able to control individual units as well as control them as a group, during which units would group into formations.

The Regiment also perpetuates the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th Regiments of the Lincoln Militia as well as " the Coloured Corps " from the War of 1812 thus linking the Regiment to the Battles of Detroit, Queenston Heights and the Niagara campaign.

Finally, Bennett photographed the huge circular paintings known as cycloramas, publishing sets of stereoviews on the Civil War cycloramas of the Battles of Shiloh, Gettysburg and Missionary Ridge, the engagement between the Monitor and the Virginia, as well as the Crucifixion.

Dante would have learned of the battle, its preparations ( documented by Latini in the Libro di Montaperti ), strategies and treachery, as well as those of the Battles of Benevento and Tagliacozzo, from the Chancellor, using material also to be gleaned later by Giovanni Villani, the Florentine merchant and historian.

The park is focused around the home front within the city, defensive fortifications surrounding the city, as well as a number military actions taken in an attempt to capture or defend the city, including the Seven Days Battles of 1862, battles of the Overland Campaign of 1864, and the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign of 1864-65.