pitched battle

Noun
  1. A fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place (synset 100958596)
    is a type of: battle, conflict, engagement, fight - a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
    specific instances:
    • agincourt - a battle in northern France in which English longbowmen under Henry V decisively defeated a much larger French army in 1415
    • austerlitz, battle of austerlitz - a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian armies of Czar Alexander I and the Austrian armies of Emperor Francis II
    • 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
    • ardennes counteroffensive, battle of the ardennes bulge, battle of the bulge - a battle during World War II; in December 1944 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise
    • 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 his army
    • bosworth field - the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (1485); Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned as Henry VII
    • bouvines - in 1214 the French under Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages
    • battle of boyne, boyne - a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690; William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts
    • battle of brunanburh, brunanburh - a battle in 937 when Athelstan defeated the Scots
    • buena vista - a pitched battle in the Mexican War in 1847; United States forces under Zachary Taylor defeated the Mexican forces under Santa Anna at a locality in northern Mexico
    • battle of bull run, bull run - either of two battles during the American Civil War (1861 and 1862); Confederate forces defeated the Federal army in both battles
    • battle of bunker hill, bunker hill - the first important battle of the American War of Independence (1775) which was fought at Breed's Hill; the British defeated the colonial forces
    • cannae - ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC
    • battle of caporetto, caporetto - battle of World War I (1917); Italians were defeated by the Austrian and German forces
    • 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); the Confederates under Robert E. Lee defeated the Union forces under Joseph Hooker
    • 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)
    • battle of chattanooga, 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
    • battle of chickamauga, chickamauga - a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863); Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces
    • battle of cowpens, cowpens - battle in the American Revolution; Americans under Daniel Morgan defeated the British
    • battle of crecy, crecy - the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War; in 1346 the English under Edward III defeated the French under Philip of Valois
    • battle of cunaxa, cunaxa - battle in 401 BC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne
    • battle of cynoscephalae, cynoscephalae - the battle that ended the second Macedonian War (197 BC); the Romans defeated Philip V who lost his control of Greece
    • al alamayn, battle of el alamein, 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
    • battle of flodden field, flodden - a battle in 1513; the English defeated the invading Scots and James IV was killed
    • battle of fontenoy, 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 captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775
    • battle of fredericksburg, fredericksburg - an important battle in the American Civil War (1862); the Union Army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee
    • battle of gettysburg, gettysburg - a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union
    • battle of granicus river, granicus - the battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians (334 BC)
    • battle of guadalcanal, guadalcanal - a battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943); the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces
    • battle of hastings, 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
    • battle of hohenlinden, hohenlinden - a battle during the Napoleonic Wars (1800); the French defeated the Austrians
    • battle of ipsus, ipsus - a battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC); Lysimachus and Seleucus defeated Antigonus and Demetrius
    • battle of issus, issus - a battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III
    • battle of ivry, ivry, ivry la bataille - a battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne
    • battle of jena, jena - the battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians
    • kennesaw mountain - battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston
    • battle of lake trasimenus, lake trasimenus - a battle in 217 BC in which Hannibal ambushed a Roman army led by Flaminius
    • battle of langside, langside - (1568) Catholic forces supporting Mary Queen of Scots were routed by Protestants
    • battle of leuctra, leuctra - Thebes defeated Sparta in 371 BC; the battle ended Sparta's military supremacy in Greece
    • concord, lexington, lexington and concord - the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)
    • battle of lule burgas, lule burgas - the principal battle of the Balkan Wars (1912); Bulgarian forces defeated the Turks
    • battle of lutzen, lutzen - a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632); Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Holy Roman Empire under Wallenstein; Gustavus Adolphus was killed
    • battle of magenta, magenta - a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
    • battle of maldon, maldon - a battle in which the Danes defeated the Saxons in 991; celebrated in an old English poem
    • mantinea, mantineia - the site of three famous battles among Greek city-states: in 418 BC and 362 BC and 207 BC
    • battle of marathon, 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
    • battle of marston moor, 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); Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal was defeated by the Romans which ended Hannibal's hopes for success in Italy
    • battle of minden, minden - a battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the English forces and their allies defeated the French
    • battle of monmouth, battle of monmouth court house, monmouth court house - a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution (1778) that ended with the withdrawal of British forces
    • battle of naseby, 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
    • battle of omdurman, omdurman - a battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese
    • battle of panipat, panipat - battle in which the ruler of Afghanistan defeated the Mahrattas in 1761
    • battle of pharsalus, pharsalus - Caesar defeated Pompey in 48 BC
    • battle of philippi, philippi - Octavian and Mark Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius in 42 BC
    • battle of plassey, plassey - the victory in 1757 by the British under Clive over Siraj-ud-daula that established British supremacy over Bengal
    • battle of plataea, plataea - a defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC
    • battle of poitiers, 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); Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese
    • battle of puebla - a battle in which Mexican forces defeated the French in 1862
    • battle of pydna, pydna - a major victory by the Romans over the Macedonians in 168 BC; resulted in the downfall of the ancient Macedonian kingdom
    • battle of ravenna, ravenna - a battle between the French and an alliance of Spaniards and Swiss and Venetians in 1512
    • battle of rocroi, rocroi - a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1643); the French defeated the Spanish invaders
    • battle of rossbach, rossbach - a battle in the Seven Years' War (1757); Prussian forces under Frederick the Great defeated the armies of France and Austria
    • battle of st mihiel, saint-mihiel, st mihiel - a battle in the Meuse-Argonne operation in World War I (1918); the battle in which American troops launched their first offensive in France
    • battle of saratoga, saratoga - a battle during the American Revolution (1777); the British under Burgoyne were defeated
    • battle of sempach, sempach - the Swiss Confederation escaped Hapsburg domination by their victory in 1386
    • battle of pittsburgh landing, battle of shiloh, shiloh - the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory
    • battle of soissons-reims, battle of the aisne, battle of the chemin-des-dames, soissons - a battle in World War I (May 1918); the Germans tried to attack before the American numbers were too great to defeat; the tactical success of the Germans proved to be a strategic failure
    • battle of solferino, solferino - an indecisive battle in 1859 between the French and Sardinians under Napoleon III and the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
    • battle of the somme, somme, somme river - battle in World War I (1916)
    • battle of the somme, somme, somme river - battle of World War II (1944)
    • battle of spotsylvania courthouse, spotsylvania - a battle between the armies of Grant and Lee during the Wilderness Campaign
    • battle of tannenberg, tannenberg - a battle in World War I (1914); decisive German victory over the Russians
    • battle of tertry, tertry - a battle in France in 687 among the descendants of Clovis
    • battle of teutoburger wald, teutoburger wald - a battle in 9 AD in which the Germans under Arminius annihilated three Roman Legions
    • battle of tewkesbury, tewkesbury - the final battle of the War of the Roses in 1471 in which Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians
    • battle of thermopylae, thermopylae - a famous battle in 480 BC; a Greek army under Leonidas was annihilated by the Persians who were trying to conquer Greece
    • battle of trasimeno, trasimeno - a battle in central Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans under Flaminius in 217 BC
    • battle of valmy, valmy - the French defeated the Austrian and Prussian troops in 1792 (with a famous cannonade from the French artillery)
    • battle of verdun, verdun - a battle in World War I (1916); in some of the bloodiest fighting in World War I the German offensive was stopped
    • battle of wagram, wagram - a battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809); Napoleon defeated the Austrians
    • battle of waterloo, 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); when UN troops advanced north to the Yalu River 200,000 Chinese troops crossed the river and drove them back
    • battle of ypres, first battle of ypres, ypres - battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
    • battle of ypres, second battle of ypres, ypres - battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
    • battle of ypres, third battle of ypres, ypres - battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
    • battle of zama, zama - the battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War

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