#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"
  instance:  #Battle_of_Britain  #Drogheda
  part of:  #war.military_action
  subtype:  #Armageddon.battle__armageddon  any catastrophically destructive battle; "they called the first World War an Armageddon"
  subtype:  #pitched_battle__pitchedbattle  a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place
     instance:  #Agincourt  #battle_of_Austerlitz__Austerlitz  #Bannockburn  #battle_of_the_Ardennes_Bulge__Battle_of_the_Bulge__Ardennes_counteroffensive  #battle_of_the_Marne__Belleau_Wood__Chateau-Thierry__Marne_River  #Blenheim  #Borodino  #Bosworth_Field  #Bouvines  #battle_of_Boyne__Boyne  #battle_of_Brunanburh__Brunanburh  #Buena_Vista  #Bull_Run  #battle_of_Bunker_Hill__Bunker_Hill  #Cannae  #battle_of_Caporetto__Caporetto  #Caudine_Forks  #Chaeronea  #Chalons-sur-Marne__Chalons  #Chancellorsville  #Chapultepec  #battle_of_Chattanooga__Chattanooga  #battle_of_Chickamauga__Chickamauga  #battle_of_Cowpens__Cowpens  #battle_of_Crecy__Crecy  #battle_of_Cunaxa__Cunaxa  #battle_of_Cynoscephalae__Cynoscephalae  #battle_of_El_Alamein__El_Alamein__Al_Alamayn  #battle_of_Flodden_Field__Flodden__Flodden_Field  #battle_of_Fontenoy__Fontenoy  #Fort_Ticonderoga__Ticonderoga  #battle_of_Fredericksburg__Fredericksburg  #battle_of_Gettysburg__Gettysburg  #battle_of_Granicus_River__Granicus  #battle_of_Guadalcanal__Guadalcanal  #battle_of_Hastings__Hastings  #battle_of_Hohenlinden__Hohenlinden  #battle_of_Ipsus__battleofipsu__Ipsus  #battle_of_Issus__Issus  #battle_of_Ivry__Ivry__Ivry_la_Bataille  #battle_of_Jena__Jena  #Kennesaw_Mountain  #Battle_of_Lake_Trasimenus__Lake_Trasimenus  #battle_of_Langside__Langside  #battle_of_Leuctra__Leuctra  #Lexington_and_Concord__Lexington__Concord  #battle_of_Lule_Burgas__Lule_Burgas  #battle_of_Lutzen__Lutzen  #battle_of_Magenta__Magenta  #battle_of_Maldon__Maldon  #Mantinea__Mantineia  #battle_of_Marathon__Marathon  #Marengo  #battle_of_Marston_Moor__Marston_Moor  #Metaurus_River  #battle_of_Minden__Minden  #battle_of_Monmouth_Court_House__Monmouth_Court_House  #battle_of_Naseby__Naseby  #battle_of_Omdurman__Omdurman  #battle_of_Panipat__Panipat  #battle_of_Pharsalus__Pharsalus  #battle_of_Philippi__Philippi  #battle_of_Plassey__Plassey  #battle_of_Plataea__Plataea  #battle_of_Poitiers__Poitiers  #Port_Arthur  #battle_of_Pydna__Pydna  #battle_of_Ravenna__Ravenna  #battle_of_Rocroi__Rocroi  #battle_of_Rossbach__Rossbach  #battle_of_Saint_Mihiel__Saint_Mihiel__St-Mihiel__battle_of_St-Mihiel  #battle_of_Saratoga__Saratoga  #battle_of_Sempatch__Sempatch  #battle_of_Shiloh__Shiloh__battle_of_Pittsburgh_Landing  #battle_of_Soissons-Reims__Soissons__battle_of_the_Chemin-des-Dames__battle_of_the_Aisne  #battle_of_Solferino__Solferino  #WWI_battle_of_the_Somme__Somme__Somme_River__battle_of_the_Somme  #WWII_battle_of_the_Somme__Somme__Somme_River__battle_of_the_Somme  #battle_of_Spotsylvania_Courthouse__Spotsylvania  #battle_of_Tannenberg__Tannenberg  #battle_of_Tertry__Tertry  #battle_of_Teutoburger_Wald__Teutoburger_Wald  #battle_of_Tewkesbury__Tewkesbury  #battle_of_Thermopylae__Thermopylae  #battle_of_Trasimeno__Trasimeno  #battle_of_Valmy__Valmy  #battle_of_Verdun__Verdun  #battle_of_Wagram__Wagram  #battle_of_Waterloo__Waterloo  #Yalu_River  #first_battle_of_Ypres__Ypres__battle_of_Ypres  #second_battle_of_Ypres__Ypres__battle_of_Ypres  #third_battle_of_Ypres__Ypres__battle_of_Ypres  #battle_of_Zama__Zama
  subtype:  #naval_battle__navalbattle  a pitched battle between naval fleets
     instance:  #Actium.naval_battle__actium  #Aegates_Isles__Aegadean_Isles  #Aegospotami__Aegospotamos  #battle_of_the_Bismarck_Sea__Bismarck_Sea  #battle_of_the_Coral_Sea__Coral_Sea  #Hampton_Roads  #battle_of_Jutland__Jutland  #battle_of_Lepanto__Lepanto  #Manila_Bay  #battle_of_Midway__Midway  #battle_of_Navarino__Navarino  #battle_of_Cape_Passero__Passero__Cape_Passero__Passero_Cape  #battle_of_the_Philippine_Sea__Philippine_Sea  #Santiago__Santiago_de_Cuba  #Battle_of_the_Spanish_Armada  #battle_of_Trafalgar__Trafalgar  #Tsushima
  subtype:  #armed_combat__armedcombat__combat  an engagement fought between two military forces
     subtype:  #belligerency__hostility  acts of overt warfare; "the outbreak of hostilities"
     subtype:  #aggression.armed_combat  the act of initiating hostilities
  subtype:  #dogfight.battle  an aerial engagement between fighter planes
  subtype:  #assault  close fighting during the culmination of a military attack
     subtype:  #resisting_arrest__resistingarrest  physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest
     subtype:  #storm  a direct and violent assault on a stronghold
  subtype:  pm#battle_in_France
     instance:  #Agincourt  #French_Revolution  #battle_of_the_Marne__Belleau_Wood__Chateau-Thierry__Marne_River  #Chalons-sur-Marne__Chalons  #battle_of_Crecy__Crecy  #battle_of_Ivry__Ivry__Ivry_la_Bataille  #Meuse-Argonne_operation__Meuse__Meuse_River__Argonne__Argonne_Forest__Meuse-Argonne  #siege_of_Orleans__Orleans  #battle_of_Poitiers__Poitiers  #battle_of_Rocroi__Rocroi  #battle_of_Saint_Mihiel__Saint_Mihiel__St-Mihiel__battle_of_St-Mihiel  #battle_of_Soissons-Reims__Soissons__battle_of_the_Chemin-des-Dames__battle_of_the_Aisne  #WWI_battle_of_the_Somme__Somme__Somme_River__battle_of_the_Somme  #WWII_battle_of_the_Somme__Somme__Somme_River__battle_of_the_Somme  #battle_of_Tertry__Tertry  #battle_of_Valmy__Valmy  #battle_of_Verdun__Verdun

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