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

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 can be fought on land, sea and in the modern age, in the air.

Following the First World War, the British Battles Nomenclature Committee was formed to decide on standard names for all battles and subsidiary actions.

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The Battles Nepalese troops, having crossed the Himalayas captured Chhochyang and Kuti in June 1788 and Sikarjong on 3 August 1788, in spite of many difficult logistic limitations.

The attack was planned to take place on April 19, 1995, to coincide with the anniversary of the Waco Siege and the 220th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

The American Revolution begins this year, with the first military engagement being the April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere's now-legendary ride.

* April 19 – American Revolution: Hostility between Britain and its American colonies explodes into bloodshed at the Battles of Lexington and Concord on the 19th, which ignites the American Revolution.

By the time the Second Continental Congress met on May 10, 1775 in Philadelphia, the Battles of Lexington and Concord had already begun in April, and while delegates were still making their way to Philadelphia, which marked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

Some events, such as Tarleton's actual pursuit of Francis Marion and his fellow irregular soldiers who escaped by disappearing into the swamps of South Carolina, found their way into the film directly while others were adapted, such as the final battle in the film which combined elements of the Battles of Cowpens and Guilford Court House, with Cornwallis ' order to fire the cannon on friend and foe alike an accurate depiction of the events at the Battle of Guilford Court House.

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Battles typically lasted for months and lead to casualties measured in the hundreds of thousands for attacker and defender alike, such as the Battle of the Somme, where 20, 000 men died on the first day.

Battles between Lapiths and Centaurs were depicted in the sculptured friezes on the Parthenon, recalling Athenian Theseus ' treaty of mutual admiration with Pirithous the Lapith, leader of the Magnetes, and on Zeus ' temple at Olympia ( Pausanias, v. 10. 8 ).

The standard text of ' Cad Goddeu ' in the Book of Taliesin makes no mention of this, but the Welsh Triads records the Battle of Goddeu as one of the " Three Futile Battles of the Island of Britain ... it was brought about by the cause of the bitch, together with the roebuck and the plover ", while Lady Charlotte Guest notes in her Mabinogion an account in the Myvyrian Archaeology that the battle " was on account of a white roebuck and a whelp ; and they came from Hell, and Amathaon ab Don brought them.

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 '.

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

Battles are shown through the lives of people on the front, but the diplomatic particulars of the war are not revealed to the audience.

Norwegian M / 29 in anti-aircraft configuration on the Battles of Narvik | Narvik front in 1940.

Battles in Suikoden III take place on a continuous field of battle, unlike the static front and back rows of earlier Suikodens.

The diversion of German forces for the Battles of Rzhev had left the front line in the area of Velikiye Luki relatively weakly defended, with the city itself defended by the 83rd Infantry Division commanded by Lieutenant General Theodor Scherer, the lines to the south held by the 3rd Mountain Division, and the front to the north held by the 5th Mountain Division.

The main armory on Lexington Avenue at 25th Street has the names of its Civil War Battles engraved on its front.

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.

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.

In April 43, Antony's forces were defeated at the Battles of Forum Gallorum and Mutina, forcing Antony to retreat to Transalpine Gaul.

Battles stories were more violent and its characters more working class than IPC's traditional fare, and it was an immediate hit.

Battles which took place were mainly between clans, expelling intruder armies or sacking expeditions.

Starship designs were produced which closely resemble the Kzinti / Mirak ships from the Star Fleet Universe, a gaming universe that includes the boardgame Star Fleet Battles and its PC analogue Star Fleet Command.

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.

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.

There were two Battles of Dunbar between England and Scotland, both being English victories.

The Havens of the Falas held out during the later Battles of Beleriand until they were finally destroyed in F. A.

In Lesser Poland the Mongols didn't have an equal opponent, defeating and killing almost all the Kraków and Sandomierz nobility in the Battle of Tursko ( 13 February ) and the Battles of Tarczek and Chmielnik ( 18 March ) where, among the casualties, were the voivode of Kraków, Włodzimierz and the castellan Clement of Brzeźnica.

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

After a rapid pursuit, the broken pieces of the Prussian army were destroyed at the Battles of Prenzlau and Lübeck and in a series of capitulations at Erfurt, Pasewalk, Stettin, Magdeburg, and Hamelin.

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.

Battles grew larger in this period, and were less ritualized.

Battles he had with the Board of Trade over his father's unpaid salary lasted for years, and attempts to sell the land in the colonies went nowhere ; these lands were confiscated during the American Revolution, and even his heirs were unable to recover any kind of compensation for them.

In 1938, after combat experiences in the Spanish Civil War and at the Battles of Khalkhin Gol against the Japanese, it became clear that the Soviet fighter designs were lagging behind international standards.

Battles between loyalist and patriot militias in the South were often brutal, and atrocities occurred, as in the experience of young Andrew Jackson.