relegation | mild banishment, consignment to an inferior position, he has been relegated to a post in Siberia |
soccer association football | a football game in which two teams of players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal |
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 |
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 |
relegation | the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category |
delegating delegation relegating relegation deputation | authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions |
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 |
Langside battle of Langside | () Catholic forces supporting Mary Queen of Scots were routed by Protestants |
Lepanto Battle of Lepanto | Turkish sea power was destroyed in by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope |
Leuctra battle of Leuctra | Thebes defeated Sparta in BC, the battle ended Sparta's military supremacy in Greece |
Little Bighorn Battle of Little Bighorn Battle of the Little Bighorn Custer's Last Stand | a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (), Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull, Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command |