noun

definition

The area where a land battle is or was fought, which is not necessarily a field.

example

1886 The night of the 16th of May found McPherson's command bivouacked from two to six miles west of the battlefield, along the line of the road to Vicksburg — Ulysses S. Grant, Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, Chapter 35.

Examples of battlefield in a Sentence

We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

Nay, at last his evil destiny pursued him to the battlefield and his own home.

On the other hand the Austrians pointed out that not only would failure to understand each other's language cause fatal confusion on a battlefield, but also tend to disintegrate the forces even in peace time.

Thus 3300 defenders were able to repulse and even to "expunge from the battlefield" the whole of the Sevastopol column, except that portion of it which drifted away to its left and joined Pavlov.

Napoleon enters Moscow after the brilliant victory de la Moskowa; there can be no doubt about the victory for the battlefield remains in the hands of the French.

My place is on the battlefield.

He'd never thought he'd find a reason to leave the battlefield.

The air was filled with electricity and the battlefield a mix of red fog and purple lightening.

The battlefield was the empire of Constantine and Theodosius.

It is the great highway, and also the great battlefield, of Palestine.

Six hours earlier his conclusion would have been correct, but early that morning the Prussian headquarters, alarmed for the safety of their line of retreat on Berlin by the presence of the French in Naumburg, decided to leave Hohenlohe and Rachel to act as rear-guard, and with the main body to commence their retreat towards the river Unstrutt and the Eckhardtsberge where Massenbach had previously reconnoitred an " ideal " battlefield.

Longstreet followed Jackson, and Lee's army was reunited on the battlefield.

The night of the 20th-21st was spent by both armies on the battlefield.

The battlefield of Sheriffmuir is about 21 m.

We had a trip out to see the WW1 battlefield at Verdun.

Epic battlefield moments including D-day, the Russian charge at Stalingrad and the battle for Berlin.

Medal of Honor and Battlefield 2 have also been successful products for EA.

She sat down, growing oblivious to those around her as she manipulated and modified the battlefield.

The "King's Stone," said to mark the spot where James was killed, is at some distance from the actual battlefield.

Bredow's command (six squadrons of the r6th Ulans and 7th Cuirassiers) was at that moment drawn up under cover about half a mile west of Vionville, and from its position could see nothing of the events in progress on the battlefield.

Wallenstein's army gave way at all points and the Swedes slept on the battlefield.

Corps had reached Namur, within easy distance of the Ligny battlefield.

The right wing of the position was covered by the Antietam as it approaches the Potomac, the upper course of that stream formed no part of the battlefield.

The site of his palace is marked by a ruined enclosure containing a fragment of the tower of Queen Militsa, whither, according to legend, tidings of the defeat were brought her by crows from the battlefield.

The Netherlands became the battlefield of Reformation and Counter-Reformation in even a stricter sense than France.

It contains the famous caves of Ajanta, and also the battlefield of Assaye.

Corps and the Damascus and Smyrna reserves and scattered as it was, can hardly be credited with more than 200,000 of its nominal 340,000, of whom no more than 50,000 combatants were in fact ever assembled on one battlefield.

Viewed as a whole, `Ali Riza's forces, scattered as they inevitably were through the need of holding territory, were reasonably well distributed, in that, though the Turks were in the ensemble inferior in the ratio of I to 21, their handicap on the decisive battlefield reduced itself to the ratio of t to about II-.

Threatened by the Greeks - now again advancing on Florinaand pursued on front and flank by the converging divisions on the battlefield itself, the Turkish army broke up entirely.

The Taborites were defeated, and the two Prokops and most of their other leaders perished on the battlefield.

When nineteen years old he corresponded with Mazzini, to whom he became whole-heartedly devoted; among other patriotic poems he wrote a hymn to the Bandiera brothers, and in the autumn of 1847 a song called "Fratelli d'Italia," which as Carducci wrote, "resounded through every district and on every battlefield of the peninsula in 1848 and 1849."

Germanicus proceeded by easy stages to his province, halting on his way in Dalmatia, and visiting the battlefield of Actium, Athens, Ilium, and other places of historic interest.

Maes Garmon (the battlefield of Germanus) is about a mile west of Mold.

Both sides spent the rest of the night on the battlefield, reorganizing their broken corps.

It was more and more regarded as the special function of the priest to administer absolution, though as late as the i 6th century we hear of laymen confessing to and absolving one another on the battlefield because no priest was at hand.

The conservative and timid Leibnitz was beaten on the battlefield of politics and public law, and the aggressive spirit of Pufendorf aggravated yet more the dispute, and so widened the division.

The body of Viscount Dundee, conveyed hither from the battlefield of Killiecrankie, was buried in the church of Old Blair, in which a monument was erected to his memory in 1889 by the 7th duke of Atholl.

Thanks to the prudent constable du Guesclin, sitting quietly at home he reconquered bit by bit what his predecessors had lost upon the battlefield, helm on head and sword in hand; and when he died in 1380, after the decease of both Edward III.

Italy was their first battlefield; Charles VIII.

Gyges (c. 687-652) was, however, defeated on the banks of the Hermus; the situation of the battlefield shows that the power of Smyrna extended far to the E., and probably included the valley of Nymphi (Nif).

These were happy images of shared exploits, battlefield victories, and tender moments crying on each other's shoulders as their world grew uglier.

He and his vamps had fought half the night and created the battlefield full of destruction before the dozen Guardians assigned to the safe house were overwhelmed.

In his blood-filled haze, he heard one of his brothers shout, and the demons shift their focus from Kris.s small group—which Rhyn defended—to the warriors pouring out of portals onto the small battlefield.

Anzac has created the first real ' anzac battlefield tour and stays in Turkey.

It is used by the ATF in planning and controlling its forces on the digitized battlefield.

The rebel forces were defeated in the ensuing battle and the mighty Warwick himself slain fleeing the battlefield.

The decisive action took place on this hill, which overlooks the battlefield.

The isolated church is rumored to stand on a mass grave of nine thousand men who fought and died on the surrounding battlefield.

Whether the force is fighting in a linear or a nonlinear battlefield, the factors of METTT will determine location of the FARP.

Then " First Aid " which explores the experiences of a virgin first-aider on a bloody battlefield.

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