On this ground he trod firmly, knowing the country, the times, and the people of Scotland: while the petty skirmishes at Drumclog or Bothwell Brig were easier to manage artistically than a great battle.
Earlier in the war this conflict would have been everywhere heralded as a great battle.
Here, then, were all the conditions for a great battle and it was for Grant to determine whether or not that battle should be fought.
This Monocacy campaign, as it is called in history, involved no great battle, but as a strategic influence it was an achievement of the utmost importance to General Lee.
It might be, to be sure, a sort of side play, and yet it was to have the effect of a great battle.
It had the violence of a great battle, but he noticed that the sounds neither advanced nor retreated.
But the hostile armies in the west had gone down into Tennessee, and there were reports that they would soon move toward each other for a great battle.
Sharp picket firing and the occasional roar of artillery, warned us that we were on the eve of a great battle.
All things indicated a great battle on the morrow.
He fought a great battle on the Upper Indus against a very tall and chivalrous king, Porus, in which the Macedonian infantry encountered an array of elephants and defeated them.
For some time Heraclius avoided a great battle while he gathered his forces.
Napoleon, with fresh forces, took up the chief command in the spring, won a great battle at Dresden, and then for a time he seems to have gone to pieces intellectually and morally.
A Moslem army of Arabs and of Berbers, the nomadic Hamitic people of the African desert and mountain hinterland who had been converted to Islam, crossed and defeated the West Goths in a great battle in 711.
A public officer appeared at last, and said to them in a loud voice, "We have been defeated in a great battle.
The inscription of Nebbi Yunus tells us at the very beginning: "In a great battle I conquered Merodach Baladan and the nations of Chaldaea and Aram; the army of Elam which had come to their assistance.
Suzub, the king of Babylon, who was taken prisoner after a great battle, they brought to Nineveh into my presence.
Mitchel moved his command on Bridgeport with great rapidity and skill, but he showed a nervous temper, which gave the impression that in a great battle he would become too much excited for a commanding officer.
On the other hand Lee was invading Pennsylvania, having just gained some successes in the Shenandoah Valley; and there was a great battle imminent on Northern soil.
Another opportunity to fight a great battlein independent command on the field never came to him.
While in camp or on marches an officer may become disliked by his men, but a great battle in which he does his duty will always restore him to popularity.
The two armies marched against each other, and met, and had a great battle; and it ended in King Gandalf flying, after leaving most of his men dead on the spot, and in that state he came back to his kingdom.
They met in a valley, in which they fought a great battle, and King Harald was victorious; and there fell King Hake and most of his people.
There was a great battle; but Halfdan being overpowered by the numbers of people fled to the forest, leaving many of his men on this spot.
Then King Harald went into Gaulardal, and had a great battle, in which he slew two kings, and conquered their dominions; and these were Gaulardal district and Strind district.
Hood had the misfortune never to have been in supreme command during a great battle.
In 1415 he won a great battle at Agincourt, a place, like Cressy, within a day's march of his ships in the Channel.
The whole sounded like the raging of a great battle.
Megabyzus marched upon Memphis, defeated the Egyptians and their allies in a great battle, relieved the citadel of Memphis from its siege, and recovered the rest of the town.
Massagetae by stratagem in a great battle, but was afterwards himself defeated and slain, his body falling into the enemy's hands, who treated it with gross indignity.
Quitting Babylon, he marched into Media, and being met by the pretender near a town called Kudrus, he defeated him in a great battle.
Pandu in great battle, I shall, O Kaurava, with Duryodhana's permission, retire into the woods.
These men, sworn to conquer or die, are summoning me, O king, to great battle.
Let the three worlds tomorrow behold my prowess in great battle, when I put forth my valour, O Daruka, for Dhananjaya's sake.
In that case, we must make ready to fight a great battle; but if it were otherwise, we had to march quickly on Vienna in order to get there before the enemy could reach it by the other bank.
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