#battle__conflict__fight__engagement  a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
  supertype:  military_action__action  a military engagement; "he saw action in Korea"
  subtype:  Armageddon.battle  pitched_battle  naval_battle  armed_combat  dogfight.battle  assault  battle_in_France (pm)
  instance:  Battle_of_Britain  Drogheda
  part of:  war.military_action__warfare  the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war"

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