| battle | a fleet of warships prepared for battle |
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| battle | an army unit usually consisting of five companies |
| battle | the line along which warring troops meet |
| battle | Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying Atlanta and burned the city |
| battle | a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805) |
| battle | a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690 |
| battle | the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it |
| battle | battle in 937 when Athelstan defeated the Scots |
| battle | the first important battle of the American War of Independence (1775) |
| battle | battle of World War I (1917) |
| battle | 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 | a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863) |