Where do battles happen?
A battlefield, battleground, or field of battle is the location of a present or historic battle involving ground warfare. It is commonly understood to be limited to the point of contact between opposing forces, though battles may involve troops covering broad geographic areas.
How are battlefields chosen?
There were a few ways a battlefield could be chosen. On occasion, heralds and messengers from each army would in fact arrange ahead of time to meet at a certain place and fight. Many battles in the American Civil War were fought by armies that just happened to find each other.
What is the difference between a war and a battle?
A battle is a military conflict between two or more armed forces that are well defined in duration, area, and force commitment. War is an intense armed conflict between Militaries, Governments characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality that stretches for many months or years.
Which battle took place last?
Land-based last stands
| Name | Year | Defenders |
|---|---|---|
| Battle of Thermopylae | 480 BC | Greek city-states |
| Battle of the Persian Gate | 330 BC | Persian Empire |
| Battle of Gaixia (Last Stand at the Wu River) | 202 BC | Xiang Yu’s Forces (Western Chu) |
| Siege of Numantia | 133 BC | Celtiberians |
What does it mean to lose the battle but win the war?
If you say that someone has lost the battle, but won the war, you mean that although they have been defeated in a small conflict they have won a larger, more important one of which it was a part.
WHO SAID win the battle but lose the war?
Kind Pyrrhus of Epirus
How did the South lose the battle but win the war?
The most convincing ‘internal’ factor behind southern defeat was the very institution that prompted secession: slavery. Enslaved people fled to join the Union army, depriving the South of labour and strengthening the North by more than 100,000 soldiers. Even so, slavery was not in itself the cause of defeat.
Who said sometimes you have to lose a battle to win the war?
Donald Trump
What if the Confederates won at Gettysburg?
One essay asks, “What if, at the Battle of Gettysburg, Lee had disengaged and fought a defensive battle from a stronger position?” The essay concluded that that would have resulted in “a decisive Confederate victory.” Churchill speculated that if Lee had won at Gettysburg the Confederacy would have won the war.
What if Lee had not won the battle of Gettysburg?
“If today [Kaiser Wilhelm II] occupies in old age the most splendid situation in Europe, let him not forget that he might well have found himself eating the bitter bread of exile, a dethroned sovereign and a broken man loaded with unutterable reproach.
Why Lee lost at Gettysburg?
The two reasons that are most widely accepted as determining the outcome of the battle are the Union’s tactical advantage (due to the occupation of the high ground) and the absence of J.E.B. Stuart’s Confederate cavalry on the first day of fighting.
Why did Lee choose to fight at Gettysburg?
After his victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville, Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia moved north for a massive raid designed to obtain desperately needed supplies, to undermine civilian morale in the North, and to encourage anti-war elements.