Word Finder - skirmish

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A brief battle between small groups, usually part of a longer or larger battle or war.

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(by extension) Any minor dispute.

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A type of outdoor military style game using paintball or similar weapons.

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To engage in a minor battle or dispute

For many years Rahway was popularly known as Spanktown, and in January 1777, during the War of Independence, a skirmish, known as the battle of Spanktown, was fought here.

The first skirmish of the inevitable war was fought at Lexington in 1775.

After a skirmish he was deserted by his troops, and was obliged to surrender.

Having driven Schoeman and his followers from Pretoria, Kruger invaded Potchefstroom, which, after a skirmish in which three men were killed and seven wounded, ' fell into his hands.

On the 13th of May the battle or skirmish of Langside determined the result of the campaign in three-quarters of an hour.

The town was occupied by the forces of the United States in July 1846; and a skirmish with the natives occurred in its vicinity in January 1847.

The military latterly had a skirmish in the affair.

At first, after you 've collected your thoughts following the initial skirmish, you'll just admire the scenery.

This is especially noticeable in the quick battle skirmish mode where your computer opponent seems hell bent on using the same tactic every time.

This high-quality skirmish game is playable right out of the box.

The groups would usually form a loose ' skirmish line ' with visual contact maintained between each element.

So what can we learn from the latest skirmish in the battle of the giants?

You enter the battle wounded, and every skirmish with the enemy means that you get more healed.

Then again, was it so trifling a skirmish to such mighty warriors as to have been forgotten already?

Any other pirate can win the name by beating the current title-holder in a skirmish.

During the first season finale, Buffy confronted the Master and lost her initial skirmish.

In 1745 Prince Charles Edward twice marched through Penrith, and a skirmish took place at Clifton.

Whilst waiting his return Murat was enjoined to skirmish with Kutusov, and the emperor himself worked out a scheme to assume the offensive with his whole army towards St Petersburg, calling in Victor and St Cyr on the way.

His campaigns had been uneventful, his chief victory (Bremule, 1119) was little more than a skirmish.

He could not avert the mistaken policy which led to the rout at Le Mans, and was finally shot in an obscure skirmish at Nouaille on the 4th of March 1794.

The king himself commanded the right wing, which had to wait until small bodies of infantry detached for the purpose had driven in the Imperialist skirmish line, and had then to cross a ditch leading the horses.

He was sent under a guard of forty-five men towards the Syrian frontier; and about a week after, news was received that in a skirmish with some of his own soldiers he had fallen mortally wounded.

With his new allies he crossed to the little island of Mactan, where he was killed in a skirmish.

After much checkered fighting Liewelyn was slain at the skirmish of Orewyn Bridge near Builth on the 11th of December 1282.

The Germans returned it, and effected a lodgment on the beach; and the skirmish died again to silence.

In Stockbridge, which is 8 miles from Winchester, Robert Earl of Gloucester, was fighting a skirmish.

At first, after you've collected your thoughts following the initial skirmish, you'll just admire the scenery.

His attention was caught by a minor skirmish in a little place called England.

Outside the room, he heard a brief skirmish ending with an infuriated squeal - female.

The mesmeric theater of the sales season also has its opening skirmish here.

After a preliminary skirmish on Sunday the 23rd, in which Bruce distinguished himself by a personal combat with Sir Henry de Bohun, whom he felled by a single blow of his axe, the battle of Bannockburn was fought on Monday the 24th; and the complete rout of the English determined the independence of Scotland and confirmed the title of Bruce.

His paternal grand-father, Captain John Parker (1729-1775), was the leader of the Lexington minute-men in the skirmish at Lexington.

Serious students in Portugal and abroad welcomed the book as an historical work of the first rank, for its evidence of careful research, its able marshalling of facts, its learning and its painful accuracy, while the sculptural simplicity of the style and the correctness of the diction have made it a Portuguese classic. The first volume, however, gave rise to a celebrated controversy, because Herculano had reduced the famous battle of Ourique, which was supposed to have seen the birth of the Portuguese monarchy, to the dimensions of a mere skirmish, and denied the apparition of Christ to King Affonso, a fable first circulated in the 15th century.

His principal expedition brought about the skirmish of the 19th of April 1775 (see Lexington), in which a detachment sent to seize some military stores collected at Concord suffered heavily at Lexington, Concord and other places, at the hands of the surrounding militia.

In the following summer Washington attempted to recover this fort, in a campaign which included the skirmish 1 His Journal, published in 1754, gives a concise and lucid account of this expedition.

This was only a preliminary skirmish; the main battle opened in the following year, when the king, quite aware that he must for the future look on Thomas as his enemy, brought forward the famous Constitutions of Clarendon, of which the main purport was to assert the jurisdiction of the state over clerical offenders by a rather complicated procedure, while other clauses provided that appeals to Rome must not be made without the kings leave, that suits about land or the presentation to benefices, in which clerics were concerned, should be tried before the royal courts, and that bishops should not quit the realmunless they had obtained permission to do so from the king (see CLARENDON, CONSTITUTIONS OF).

He had a knot on his forehead, probably suffered in some roustabout skirmish.

When your ship lands in a square next to another ship, you may engage in a skirmish to try to take treasure from your opponent.

In 1815 the marquis endeavoured to bring about another Vendean rising for the king, and was shot in a skirmish with the Imperialist forces at the Pont des Marthes on the 4th of June 1815.

The plan of the allies was to attack Napoleon's right, and to cut him off from Vienna, and their advanced guard began, before dark on the 1st of December, to skirmish towards Telnitz.

In June 1776 he took command of the American army in Canada and after an unsuccessful skirmish with the British at Three Rivers (June 8) retreated to Crown Point.

In September 1896 a skirmish at Hafir, with similarly successful tactics, gave the British commander the possession of Dongola.

The Irfon valley, near Builth, was, however, the scene of the last struggle between the English and Llewelyn, who in 1282 fell in a petty skirmish in that district.

From one point of view the battle of Tippecanoe may be regarded as the opening skirmish of the war of 1812.

The assault on the Turkish main camp was fixed for the 6th of May; but, unfortunately, a chance skirmish brought on an engagement the day before, in the course of which Karaiskakis was killed, an irreparable loss in view of his prestige with the wild arinatoli.

A skirmish, fought the next day, opposite the west front of the present Columbia University, and known as the affair of Harlem Heights, cost the British a loss of seventy of their light infantry.

He was released, but in 1282 he revolted again, and was killed in a skirmish with the Mortimers, near Builth in central Wales.

There is a hydropathic establishment on Skirmish Hill, the name commemorating the faction fight on the 25th of July 1526, in which the Scotts defeated the Douglases and Kers.

On Palm Sunday 1282, in a time of peace, David suddenly attacked and burnt Hawarden Castle, whereupon all Wales was up in arms. Edward, greatly angered and now bent on putting an end for ever to the independence of the Principality, hastened into Wales; but whilst the king was campaigning in Gwynedd, Prince Llewelyn himself was slain in an obscure skirmish on the 11th of December 1282 at Cefn-ybedd, near Builth on the Wye, whither he had gone to rouse the people of Brycheiniog.

Fitzmaurice fell soon after in a skirmish near Castleconnell, but Sanders and Desmond's brothers still kept the field.