Among the French prisoners taken at the battle of Vitebsk, during Napoleon's disastrous retreat in Prussia, was a French general, who was accompanied by: his wife and daughter.
If any such should proffer his services, he might do battle in single combat with her accuser.
People would stare; some would ask, 'Is this the great Lord Duncan who won the Battle of Camperdown?
Her anticipation was correct, for accounts were shortly afterward received that the young man was slain at the battle of Corunna, which was fought on the very day of the night of which his betrothed had beheld the vision.
But I turn to The Times and I read:-- "The event shows that mere material equality is but as dust in the balance when weighed in the day of battle against superiority of moral equipment.
I was left alone in the hall with the prisoner, and merry voices from the kitchen told me that the battle was being fought again over the wine.
Do I believe in the "middle march" of life, as the girl did in the morning, before the battle of the day?
A shout of triumph from Denny told me that the battle was going well there.
O the Nor'west wind is a spirit brave, A conquering hero is he; And his fierce battle song, as he marcheth along, Is the shout of victory.
We had, however, made up our minds to struggle in the best manner we could against the difficulties which surrounded us, and mutually to sustain each other in the hardbattle before us.
And if anybody dares to doubt it, I will go, like Count Robert, to the crossroad, and give battle for a week to all comers, just as he did.
We would have gone further in our battle against pauperism, perhaps, were it not that pauperism is the only disease that has never invaded the home of the rich.
After the many interviews held with her by doctor and social worker, her depression gradually cleared up, and she became ready to take up the battleof life again.
Yet he was anxious and troubled; he felt heavily weighted for his battlewith the world without any shoes on, and he felt he must look ridiculous.
It was pleasant to repose upon the laurels so dearly won; but another battle must be fought, and this necessity soon became apparent.
I must gird up my loins and set out for Florence, to see with my own eyes how the battle is going for my holy master.
Theodoric fought the battle of Verona, and founded the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy twelve years later, in 493, and thereupon married the sister of Clovis.
The two armies met in front of Civitella, on Waterloo day, 18th June, thirteen years, as I said, before the battle of Hastings.
It was of this hard-fought battle that Santa Anna said: "We whipped the Americans half a dozen times, and once completely surrounded them; but they would not stay whipped.
As to the final result of that enterprise we are not informed, except that his landing was opposed by the natives, and a battle was fought in which fifteen or twenty Indians were killed and a number of Spaniards were wounded.
The battle of Buena Vista was fought at a great altitude, nearly as high above the level of the sea as the summit of Mount Washington in New England.
Here, also, is a pretentious battle-piece by a native artist, representing the battle of Puebla, when the French were so completely defeated.
This decisivebattle ended the war, and made Texas independent of Mexico.
A fierce and unnecessary, though victorious battle on our part was here fought, wherein the Americans suffered considerable loss, principally from a masked battery, which was manned by volunteers from the city workshops.
This battle of the 5th of May was another Waterloo for the French.
Not at all,” he replied, “when the battle began, our work was largely finished.
I should have liked to have been with the General Staff,” I remarked to him, “during the Battle of Moukden.
The casual observer finds it hard to realize that there is a line of battle only 30 miles away.
The first battle of the gases occurred early on the morning of Sunday, the 30th of May.
Once one has left the Front one obtains more accurate news as to the situation on this line of battle from the foreign papers than from any other source.
Leaving this place early the following morning we started back for Tarnopol and the Headquarters of the Army that stands second in the Russian line of battle counting from the left flank.
This regiment, beloved of Suvoroff, will always do its uttermost to uphold the reputation of Russian arms, that they may be worthy to fight this battle shoulder to shoulder with their noble allies in the British army.
In the evening there came through battalion after battalion of troops swinging through the streets, tired, dirty andbattle stained, but, with it all, singing at the top of their lungs.
In the general crash after the battle of the Grodek line, the loss of a town which until then had never been heard of in the West, outside of military circles, would have escaped anything more than passing comment.
That, in brief, is the story of the battle which for the second time decided American independence.
I was tingling with joy, but all the same I knew that a grim battle was before me.
But the strong passionate accents came after; and the old battle of doubt and pity and remorse surged up again, and the cloud of their strife dimmed all perception, save that she was very, very wretched.
The daughter went her way, to wage her own battle in secret; to balance and fix her decision between her own heart and God.
If I hadn't had sickness and death to battle against, I should have got into human quarrels, maybe, just for the sake of feeling ferocious.
His generalship failed signally at the battle of Cunaxa, for the loss of which he is far more to be blamed than Clearchus.
On the third night, believing the battle to be imminent, he distributed the commands and laid down a plan of operations.
It was usually the enemy which brought this phase of the battle to an end, by pressing onward and closing with the Persian main line in a hand:to-hand combat.
Cyrus, who trusted much to the Greek general's judgment, did not any further press the change, but prepared to fight the battle as he stood.
The battle of the Granicus threw open to Alexander the whole of Asia Minor.
When the battle began, the chariots were first launched against the enemy, whose ranks it was hoped they would confuse, or, at any rate, disturb.
The battle thus offered was eagerly accepted by the Macedonian.
Darius would have been inexcusable had he given up the contest without trying this last chance--the chance of a battle in the open field with the full collected force of Persia.
The battle began by certain movements of Alexander against the flank force which menaced his right.
A battle was fought near Papremis in the Delta, wherein the Persians were defeated, and Achaemenes fell by the hand of Inarus himself.
The battle was for a short time doubtful; but soon the superiority of Greek naval tactics began to tell.
Often from these downs, the poet must have watched-- Below the milky steep Some ship of battle slowly creep, And on through zones of light and shadow Glimmer away to the lonely deep.
He had now two sturdy sons to back him up, and these being chips of the old block, they easily contrived to kill sixty thousand people in a battle fought about Cheapside and Ludgate Hill, which brought the king to a reasonable mood.
It is a battle picture: the battle is over: the survivors are gone: the dead and wounded lie about.
It's a salve that father got in France; and they may have used it at the battle of Waterloo; that's why there were so many soldiers limping around afterwards.
Out of the blackest abyss there arises in the wounded and prostrate some white peak of unmelting innocence--at the base of which Life's battle rages.
That is the kind of battle we are going to fight," he said.
Think of an army having to win a hard-fought battle on soft-boiled eggs!
Children have enough instincts to battle with and fight their way through, as it is.
The eating of the apples now went on silently, Elizabeth having been worsted in her battle for the Cratchits.
It is perhaps the only incident in history of a decisive battle of world import followed by the death of both leaders, each made immortal by the tragedy of their common fate.
The battle of Sainte Foy followed exactly the precedents of the previous year.
In that year the battle line from Acadia to the Ohio and the Mississippi was already forming, and the fate of France's eager efforts to hold the West was soon to be decided in the East.
On the opposite bank large numbers of Indians were seen, many of them warriors in battle array, while a fleet of canoes lined the shore.
While yet a boy he displayed prodigies of valor in the battleagainst Hemu.
Battle of Solway Moss; successful invasion of Scotland by the English.
Battle of La Biococca; the French defeated by the forces of Charles under Colonna.
Battle of Mohacs; the Hungarians are overwhelmed by Solyman; Louis II slain.
The sole result of the battle was to delay the Landgrave's surrender a little longer.
The battle raged as fiercely on the lake as on the land.
Instead of laughing at the proposal as any modern leader would, Francis, in face of the protest of all his generals, accepted and in true chivalrous fashion fought the wholly unnecessary battle of Pavia.
Upon the ramparts where we took our station, several young men were lying, killed by the besiegers; the battle raged there desperately, and there was the densest fog imaginable.
They will have before them, soon, a greater battle than the one that was fought with the Norwegians, putting Fulford and Stamford bridge together.
Even then they would not yield, and all who afterward told stories of the battle had wonderful things to relate concerning the feats of arms performed by the sea king himself, and by Tostig the Earl, and by many of the heroes of the Vikings.
He winced a little, also, when he remembered that he was regarded as one of the heroes of the great battle of Stamford bridge.
There, also, fighting valiantly, fell Tostig the Earl, and with their slaying the battle ended, for the remaining Northmen lost heart and fled.
They were standing near the head of Pier Number One, North River, gazing at the great line-of-battle ship as she steamed along slowly up the stream.
To any ordinary observer, not an old salt nor the commander of a line-of-battle ironclad, it looked as if the wind had not yet reached Green Lake.
Ned was already on his way to his bunk under the deck to put on his battle trappings, and he shortly discovered that the missionary had not left Norway, or it might be Ireland, unprovided for warlike emergencies.
Then I went all the way from York and the battle of Stamford bridge to the battle of Senlac, with King Harold of England and Duke William the Conqueror.
What he needeth most of all is this very battle to be fought without delay, for his host is eating up its provisions.
These must now have been empty, for the afternoon sun glittered upon the polished arms and armour of long lines and serried columns of warriors drawn up in battle array as if for inspection.
Out came his sword, but before he could do anything with it the rush of the battle swept on beyond him.
It would be foolish to argue against the fact that men occasionally feel called upon to resent criticism by an appeal to battle without weapons.
In the news columns of the paper we have told the story of the battle to the death, fought on the public streets, of the death scenes and burial.
And we have too many sleek Reynards prowling 'round the sheep-pens and dove-cotes of this people, too few faithful Gelerts doing stubborn battle with predaceous beasts.
The "Bloody Sixty-ninth" New York was a Catholic regiment, and its heroism at the Battle of Bull Run forms one of the brightest pages in the military history of this nation.
When the colonists stood debating whether to bear their present ills or fly to other they knew not of, he seized the gage of battle and flung it full and fair in Britain's haughty face.
It was this natural feeling for right and fair play which led him into the battle with the A.
It was his strong hand that taught the "doubtful battle where to rage"; 'twas his to enchain friendship and inspire followers.
Uncle Sam can, if need be, marshal forth to battle eight million as intrepid sons as those who crowned old Bunker Hill with flame or bathed the crests of Gettysburg with blood.
Thus the insurrection was suppressed on the day of its commencement; and such of its leaders as survived the battle were immediately executed.
On receiving intelligence of the battle of Lexington, New York appeared to hesitate no longer.
The battle of Almanza, in Spain, having induced the British cabinet to direct an armament intended for New England to European objects, Dudley determined to make an attempt on Acadié, though no aid should arrive from England.
Montcalm had taken post on the left of the French army, and Wolfe on the right of the British; so that the two generals met each other, at the head of their respective troops; and there the battle was most severe.
Thus anxious was congress even after a battle had been fought, not to widen the breach between the two countries.
In South Carolina, so soon as intelligence of the battle of Lexington was received, a provincial congress was called by the committee of correspondence.
Near the place where the action had been fought the preceding year by Montgomery, the Indians again assembled in force, and gave battle in defence of their country.
In the Battle of Fontency, for instance, he was colonel in command of the famous Coldstream Guards, who covered themselves with glory; and shortly before embarking for America he was made major-general of the line.
Nor did they examine with sufficient accuracy, several striking circumstances attending the battle which had been fought.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "battle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
