The psychology of the battlefield gets a rather thorough and able treatment by an Austrian reserve officer, who, after having been wounded in an engagement with the Russians, gave the following interview to a Hungarian journalist.
On some battlefield They fight for nought and die there, one by one!
But it wasn't a retreat--it was one of those mysterious strategic shifts you read about in the papers without really realizing what it means till you see it--great masses being rushed from one battlefield to another on the long line.
One fights because one is on the battlefield and cannot do any different.
Kerreri, it may be worth noticing how misleading were the accounts of this prospective battlefield which had appeared in some newspapers, and how incorrect the maps were.
As steam and current bore us rapidly past the battlefield in the twilight, the vultures circling over the distant plain and the broken zeriba by the river's bank were the only visible signs which remained to tell of our momentous victory.
One Grammodes stolida (Battlefield of Omdurman), exactly like the Hope Specimens from India.
American Horse-thief Detective Association, member of the Universal Detective Bureau, chairman of Tinkletown Battlefield Society, etc.
Egypt, unluckily for its people, is the battlefield of European rivalries; and an honest settlement in the interests of its population will be prevented to suit the convenience of France.
But in the meanwhile, you can see, Agnes, that the battlefield is going to be no place for a woman.
Understand me, I'm not thinking of quitting; I merely want to look over the battlefield first.
By the end of the first week in April the bulk of the British troops holding the Flanders line had passed through the furnace of the southern battlefield and were sadly in need of rest and reinforcement.
That the battlefieldis so well preserved is due in part to man and in part to Nature.
It is apropos the battlefield that I mention the peculiarities of the soil.
The handsomest monument to an individual which I saw upon the battlefield was the admirable bronze bust of Major General Martin L.
An airman who flew over the battlefield is inclined to doubt this story.
If they make the Somme battlefield a forest, no man will be brave enough to cross it in the dark.
Nobody had heard the noise of an approaching shell, and we suspected a trip-mine, with which the battlefield was sown.
Tanks unfortunately are not allowed to roam wildly over the battlefield either before or during a battle.
During these days I was again in command of the battalion, for the Colonel was on leave, and twice it was necessary for me to drive over the Somme battlefield by Peronne to Fins.
What happened to them afterwards cannot be known until the battlefield is searched and all the prisoners who return have been questioned.
In comparison with the country on either side of the Puisieux road, the Somme battlefield from the highway between Albert and Bapaume was serenely monotonous.
It was a battlefieldover allotments, cultivated on a marshy heath.
It is unwise to go through a battlefield at night.
The mist still hung heavily over the Somme battlefield and we continually lost our way.
Flodden, Flodden Field, a plain in Northumberland, famous as the battlefield where James IV of Scotland was defeated by an English army under the Earl of Surrey, Sept.
He was only an obscure youth, who had first fought his battle on the solitary battlefield of his own soul, and then, as a consequence, could no longer keep himself from throwing himself into this great light against tyranny and militarism.
People in England were far better informed of what was taking place than the soldiers, except in some little corner of the great battlefield where they were individually engaged.
The war has swept the tedious patience-game of the diplomats off the table and set the brazen dice of the battlefield rolling in its stead.
Belgium, the granary and armoury, is predestined to be the battlefield in the struggle for the Meuse and the Rhine.
Far as the Western battlefield lies from the scene of our struggle, the report of a German defeat in France would reverberate Eastwards and would lend us a brave moral impetus.
But here was just one of the drawbacks of the battlefieldand no getting over it.
When we let our eyes wander over the battlefieldwhere the unrenowned fell, we see them lying in serried rows.
A large per cent of the Union dead remained unburied until we came in possession of the battlefield after the battle of Chattanooga or until about December 1st.
In speaking of that part of the battlefield (the Vineyard Farm) he says: "Mapped upon field and forest in glaring insolation by the bodies of the slain.
The banners of England, France, Turkey, and Germany are mingled together, telling the story of Russia's struggles upon the battlefield and of her victories.
He had left the battlefield of Borodino covered with corpses forty miles behind.
Sometimes the broad stretch of the battlefield was enveloped in great volumes of smoke, but a moment later, as the air cleared, the same lines were to be seen moving onward.
His first unconscious feeling of joyful animation produced by the sights and sounds of the battlefield was now replaced by another, especially since he had seen that soldier lying alone in the hayfield.
Bonaparte riding over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries firing at the Augesd Dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left on the field.
And we said so because we had nothing to fight for there, we wanted to get away from the battlefield as soon as we could.
This day the horrible appearance of the battlefieldovercame that strength of mind which he thought constituted his merit and his greatness.
Before Belliard was out of sight, a messenger from another part of the battlefield galloped up.
He had never ceased to believe his father's words: 'And the battlefield is Ireland--our dear Ireland which we love!
And the battlefield is Ireland, our dear Ireland which we love.
And meaningless the spotless plume, the shining blade that goes through life And quits this naming battlefieldwithout one evidence of strife.
The world is but a battlefield where strong and weak men fill the lists, And some make war with humble prayers, and some with swords and some with fists.
How did this author ascertain that the balls he picked up on the battlefield of Gettysburg were sent by the Confederates?
In the above quotation, he states that he had picked up, on the battlefield of Gettysburg, an explosive and a poisoned ball.
The memory of his desolation on the battlefield came over him with resistless force.
Some of the old thegn Ealdred's men had visited the battlefield several days after the fight, to see how the land lay and what the king's men were doing.
She was thinking again of that night, which each sunset found a day nearer, when on an American stage, before many hundreds of people, she should dance the gypsy tarantella on a miniature battlefield beneath the light of an imaginary moon.
It is night on a battlefieldof France," she whispered to herself.
The big scene, the gypsy dance on a battlefield under the moon, would decide all.
The moonlight, thebattlefield with its broken cannons; all this, with the bewitching dance of the tarantella, held the throng breathless, spellbound.
By innumerable acts of treachery and appalling savagery on the battlefield the German soldiers have forfeited for ever the right to the courtesies usually extended to an honourable foe.
Struck down by a bullet, he lay on his back on the battlefield of Mons, unable to move, around him many wounded men.
At Tournay the regiment, with the 14th and 37th, by a forced march reached the battlefield at a most opportune moment and decided the day in favour of the British.
Personal bravery on the battlefieldat once gained fame for him as a soldier, and made him one of the heroes of the hour.
In riding over the battlefield after his great victory at Cowpens, old soldiers saw with wonder the fierce fighter stop his horse and pray aloud, and, with tears running down his face, thank God for the victory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "battlefield" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: battlefield; field; front; line; shambles; theater
