#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:  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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