mail-order buying catalog buying | buying goods to be shipped through the mail |
melee scrimmage battle royal | a noisy riotous fight |
struggle battle | an energetic attempt to achieve something, getting through the crowd was a real struggle, he fought a battle for recognition |
tall order large order | a formidable task or requirement, finishing in time was a tall order but we did it |
order arms | a position in the manual of arms, the rifle is held vertically on the right side with the butt on the ground, often used as a command |
close-order drill | (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder) |
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 |
pitched battle | a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place |
naval battle | a pitched battle between naval fleets |
conflict struggle battle | an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals), the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph--Thomas Paine, police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs |
order ordering | the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement, there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list |
rank order | an arrangement according to rank |
holy order | the sacrament of ordination |
telephone order | receiving orders via telephone |
battle of wits | a contest in which intelligence rather than violence is used |
custody battle | litigation to settle custody of the children of a divorced couple |
Atlanta battle of Atlanta | a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it, |
Austerlitz battle of Austerlitz | a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (), the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian armies of Czar Alexander I and the Austrian armies of Emperor Francis II |
Battle of Britain | the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it |
Battle of Kerbala | a battle inin which the grandson of Mohammed and his followers were killed, the Battle of Kerbala is the basis for the Ta'ziyehs that are performed annually |
Battle of the Ardennes Bulge Battle of the Bulge Ardennes counteroffensive | a battle during World War II, in December 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 |
Bismarck Sea battle of the Bismarck Sea | a naval battle in World War II, Allied land-based bombers destroyed a Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea in March |
Boyne battle of Boyne | a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in , William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts |
Brunanburh battle of Brunanburh | a battle in when Athelstan defeated the Scots |
Bull Run Battle of Bull Run | either of two battles during the American Civil War ( and ), Confederate forces defeated the Federal army in both battles |
Bunker Hill battle of Bunker Hill | the first important battle of the American War of Independence () which was fought at Breed's Hill, the British defeated the colonial forces |
Caporetto battle of Caporetto | battle of World War I (), Italians were defeated by the Austrian and German forces |
Chattanooga battle of Chattanooga | in the American Civil War () 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 (), Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces |
Coral Sea battle of the Coral Sea | a Japanese defeat in World War II (May ), the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers |
Cowpens battle of Cowpens | battle in the American Revolution, Americans under Daniel Morgan defeated the British |
Crecy battle of Crecy | the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War, in the English under Edward III defeated the French under Philip of Valois |
Cunaxa battle of Cunaxa | battle inBC 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 ( BC), the Romans defeated Philip V who lost his control of Greece |
El Alamein Al Alamayn Battle of El Alamein | a pitched battle in World War II () resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel |
Flodden Battle of Flodden Field | a battle in , the English defeated the invading Scots and James IV was killed |
Fontenoy Battle of Fontenoy | a battle in in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland |
Fredericksburg Battle of Fredericksburg | an important battle in the American Civil War (), the Union Army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee |
Gettysburg Battle of Gettysburg | a battle of the American Civil War (), the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union |
Granicus Battle of Granicus River | the battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians ( BC) |
Guadalcanal Battle of Guadalcanal | a battle in World War II in the Pacific (-), the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces |
Hastings battle of Hastings | the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II () and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest |
Hohenlinden battle of Hohenlinden | a battle during the Napoleonic Wars (), the French defeated the Austrians |
Ipsus battle of Ipsus | a battle between the successors of Alexander the Great ( BC), Lysimachus and Seleucus defeated Antigonus and Demetrius |
Issus battle of Issus | a battle ( BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III |
Ivry battle of Ivry Ivry la Bataille | a battle () in which the Huguenots under Henry IV defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne |
Jena Battle of Jena | the battle inin which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians |
Jutland battle of Jutland | an indecisive naval battle in World War I (), fought between the British and German fleets off the northwestern coast of Denmark |
Lake Trasimenus Battle of Lake Trasimenus | a battle in BC in which Hannibal ambushed a Roman army led by Flaminius |