They would allow the Germans to advance, and when the occasion showed itself favorable the French armies, along with the British army, would take the offensive and wage a decisive battle.
McClellan must be thunderstruck at this unexpected opening of a decisive battle.
They are confident of the success of Lee, and really seem apprehensive that Burnside will not come over and fight him in a decisive battle.
The weather is clear, and Lee and Meade may fight, and it may be a decisive battle.
He counted upon little as regards the two armies near the Meuse, but hoped to force on a decisive battle by the advance of the left wing towards Ypres.
Carnot had set before them the ideal of a decisive battle as the great object.
Finally, by a decisive battle, David succeeds in winning the Philistine’s capital and with it their whole country.
Judas and his followers saw that there would be a decisive battle.
When a navy encourages the idea that ships must not be risked, that a decisive battle must be avoided because of what might happen in case of defeat, it is headed for the same fate that overwhelmed the French.
What were the consequences of Lepanto, and in what sense can it be called a decisive battle?
The stage was set for another decisive battle on the scene of Actium.
But Marathon can hardly be called a decisive battle because it merely postponed the invasion; it affected in no way the communications of the Persians and it did not weaken seriously their military resources.
They would then hem me in, bring on a decisive battle, and their overwhelming masses would crush me and my army.
Politically he had fought and won an easy but a decisive battle.
Although Salamanca was in every respect a decisive battle, how much more fatal must it not have proved, had darkness not shut in, and robbed the conquerors of half the fruits of victory?
Still the moment of attack could not be distant; and it was certain that the Marshal only waited for some embarrassment in the march, to throw his leading divisions on the retreating brigades of Britain, and force on a decisive battle.
On arriving at that place, Sir Colin pushed on with his charges to Cawnpore, where he fought a decisive battle, which is described in the chapter dealing with Cawnpore.
He was unwilling to abandon southwestern Missouri to the enemy without a struggle, even though almost hopeless of success, and determined to bring on a decisive battle, if possible, before his short-term volunteers were discharged.
This required that the enemy's advance should be delayed as much as possible, and at the same time a decisive battle avoided, unless it could be fought on favorable terms.
It was quite certain that on this day, August 30th, there would be a decisive battle, in which one army would be victor and the other defeated.
It was well known to both armies that this battle would decide Grant's last chance to get between Lee and Richmond, and preparations were made the next day for a decisive battle on the morrow.
Alonso was successful and served as president during three years, but early in 1899 Pando began warlike operations and in April overthrew Alonso in a decisive battle.
The result of this engagement gave each of the generals a different motive for hastening on a decisive battle.
Now that Caecina and Valens had joined forces, the Vitellians had no longer any reason to avoid a decisive battle.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decisive battle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
