English > pitched battle: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | A fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place. |
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| Instances | Agincourt | A battle in northern France in which English longbowmen under Henry V decisively / decisively defeated a much larger French army in 1415 |
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| Austerlitz, battle of Austerlitz | A decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805) |
| Bannockburn | A battle in which the Scots under Robert the Bruce defeated the English and assured the independence of Scotland |
| Battle of Kerbala | A battle in 680 in which the grandson of Mohammed and his followers were killed |
| Battle of Puebla | A battle in which Mexican forces defeated the French in 1862 |
| Battle of the Ardennes Bulge, Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes counteroffensive | A battle during World War II |
| Battle of the Marne, Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry, Marne River | A World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918 |
| Blenheim | The First Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession |
| Borodino | Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened / weakened his army |
| Bosworth Field | The battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (1485) |
| Bouvines | In 1214 the French under Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages |
| Boyne, battle of Boyne | A battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690 |
| Brunanburh, battle of Brunanburh | A battle in 937 when Athelstan defeated the Scots |
| Buena Vista | A pitched battle in the Mexican War in 1847 |
| Bull Run, Battle of Bull Run | Either of two battles during the American Civil War (1861 and 1862) |
| Bunker Hill, battle of Bunker Hill | The first important battle of the American War of Independence (1775) which was fought at Breed's Hill |
| Cannae | ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC |
| Caporetto, battle of Caporetto | battle of World War I (1917) |
| Caudine Forks | A battle in the Apennines in 321 BC in which the Samnites defeated the Romans |
| Chaeronea | A battle in which Philip II of Macedon defeated the Athenians and Thebans (338 BC) and also Sulla defeated Mithridates (86 BC) |
| Chalons, Chalons-sur-Marne | The battle in which Attila the Hun was defeated by the Romans and Visigoths in 451 |
| Chancellorsville | A major battle in the American Civil War (1863) |
| Chapultepec | A pitched battle in the Mexican War that resulted in a major victory for American forces over Mexican forces at a locality south of Mexico City (1847) |
| Chattanooga, battle of Chattanooga | In the American Civil War (1863) the Union armies of Hooker, Thomas, and Sherman under the command of Ulysses S. Grant won a decisive victory over the Confederate Army under Braxton Bragg |
| Chickamauga, battle of Chickamauga | A Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863) |
| Cowpens, battle of Cowpens | battle in the American Revolution |
| Crecy, battle of Crecy | The first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War |
| Cunaxa, battle of Cunaxa | battle in 401 BC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne |
| Cynoscephalae, battle of Cynoscephalae | The battle that ended the second Macedonian War (197 BC) |
| El Alamein, Al Alamayn, Battle of El Alamein | A pitched battle in World War II (1942) resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel |
| Flodden, Battle of Flodden Field | A battle in 1513 |
| Fontenoy, Battle of Fontenoy | A battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland |
| Fort Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga | A pitched battle in which American revolutionary troops / troops captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775 |
| Fredericksburg, Battle of Fredericksburg | An important battle in the American Civil War (1862) |
| Gettysburg, Battle of Gettysburg | A battle of the American Civil War (1863) |
| Granicus, Battle of Granicus River | The battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians (334 BC) |
| Guadalcanal, Battle of Guadalcanal | A battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943) |
| Hastings, battle of Hastings | The decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest |
| Hohenlinden, battle of Hohenlinden | A battle during the Napoleonic Wars (1800) |
| Ipsus, battle of Ipsus | A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC) |
| Issus, battle of Issus | A battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III |
| Ivry, battle of Ivry, Ivry la Bataille | A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne |
| Jena, Battle of Jena | The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively / decisively defeated the Prussians |
| Kennesaw Mountain | battle of the American Civil War (1864) |
| Lake Trasimenus, Battle of Lake Trasimenus | A battle in 217 BC in which Hannibal ambushed a Roman army led by Flaminius |
| Langside, battle of Langside | (1568) Catholic forces supporting Mary Queen of Scots were routed by Protestants |
| Leuctra, battle of Leuctra | Thebes defeated Sparta in 371 BC |
| Lexington, Concord, Lexington and Concord | The first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775) |
| Lule Burgas, battle of Lule Burgas | The principal battle of the Balkan Wars (1912) |
| Lutzen, battle of Lutzen | A battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632) |
| Magenta, Battle of Magenta | A battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I |
| Maldon, Battle of Maldon | A battle in which the Danes defeated the Saxons in 991 |
| Mantinea, Mantineia | The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states |
| Marathon, battle of Marathon | A battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians |
| Marengo | A battle in 1800 in which the French under Napoleon Bonaparte won a great victory over the Austrians |
| Marston Moor, battle of Marston Moor | A battle in 1644 in which the Parliamentarians under the earl of Manchester defeated the Royalists under Prince Rupert |
| Metaurus River | A battle during the second Punic War (207 BC) |
| Minden, battle of Minden | A battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the English forces and their allies defeated the French |
| Monmouth Court House, Battle of Monmouth Court House, Battle of Monmouth | A pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution (1778) that ended with the withdrawal of British forces |
| Naseby, Battle of Naseby | A battle in 1645 that settled the outcome of the first English Civil War as the Parliamentarians won a major victory over the Royalists |
| Omdurman, battle of Omdurman | A battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese |
| Panipat, battle of Panipat | battle in which the ruler of Afghanistan defeated the Mahrattas in 1761 |
| Pharsalus, battle of Pharsalus | Caesar defeated Pompey in 48 BC |
| Philippi, battle of Philippi | Octavian and Mark Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius in 42 BC |
| Plassey, battle of Plassey | The victory in 1757 by the British under Clive over Siraj-ud-daula that established British supremacy over Bengal |
| Plataea, battle of Plataea | A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC |
| Poitiers, battle of Poitiers | The battle in 1356 in which the English under the Black Prince defeated the French |
| Port Arthur | A battle in the Chino-Japanese War (1894) |
| Pydna, Battle of Pydna | A major victory by the Romans over the Macedonians in 168 BC |
| Ravenna, Battle of Ravenna | A battle between the French and an alliance of Spaniards and Swiss and Venetians in 1512 |
| Rocroi, Battle of Rocroi | A battle in the Thirty Years' War (1643) |
| Rossbach, battle of Rossbach | A battle in the Seven Years' War (1757) |
| Saint-Mihiel, St Mihiel, battle of St Mihiel | A battle in the Meuse-Argonne operation in World War I (1918) |
| Saratoga, battle of Saratoga | A battle during the American Revolution (1777) |
| Sempach, battle of Sempach | The Swiss Confederation escaped Hapsburg domination by their victory in 1386 |
| Shiloh, battle of Shiloh, battle of Pittsburgh Landing | The second great battle of the American Civil War (1862) |
| Soissons, battle of Soissons-Reims, battle of the Chemin-des-Dames, battle of the Aisne | A battle in World War I (May 1918) |
| Solferino, battle of Solferino | An indecisive battle in 1859 between the French and Sardinians under Napoleon III and the Austrians under Francis Joseph I |
| Somme, Somme River, Battle of the Somme | battle in World War I (1916) |
| Somme, Somme River, Battle of the Somme | battle of World War II (1944) |
| Spotsylvania, battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse | A battle between the armies of Grant and Lee during the Wilderness Campaign |
| Tannenberg, battle of Tannenberg | A battle in World War I (1914) |
| Tertry, battle of Tertry | A battle in France in 687 among the descendants of Clovis |
| Teutoburger Wald, battle of Teutoburger Wald | A battle in 9 AD in which the Germans under Arminius annihilated three Roman Legions |
| Tewkesbury, battle of Tewkesbury | The final battle of the War of the Roses in 1471 in which Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians |
| Thermopylae, battle of Thermopylae | A famous battle in 480 BC |
| Trasimeno, battle of Trasimeno | A battle in central Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans under Flaminius in 217 BC |
| Valmy, battle of Valmy | The French defeated the Austrian and Prussian troops in 1792 (with a famous cannonade from the French artillery) |
| Verdun, battle of Verdun | A battle in World War I (1916) |
| Wagram, battle of Wagram | A battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809) |
| Waterloo, Battle of Waterloo | The battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon |
| Yalu River | A battle in the Korean War (November 1950) |
| Ypres, battle of Ypres, first battle of Ypres | battle in World War I (1914) |
| Ypres, battle of Ypres, second battle of Ypres | battle in World War I (1915) |
| Ypres, battle of Ypres, third battle of Ypres | battle in World War I (1917) |
| Zama, battle of Zama | The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively / decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War |
| Broader | battle, conflict, fight, engagement | A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war |
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| Spanish | batalla campal |
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| Catalan | batalla campal |
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