Definition of Field of battle

1. Noun. A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought. "They made a tour of Civil War battlefields"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Of Battle

field lens
field line
field lines
field lupine
field magnet
field maple
field marigold
field marshal
field marshals
field mice
field mint
field mouse
field mouse-ear
field mushroom
field mustard
field of battle (current term)
field of consciousness
field of fire
field of fixation
field of force
field of honor
field of operation
field of operations
field of regard
field of study
field of view
field of vision
field officer
field pansy
field pea

Literary usage of Field of battle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet (1908)
"... the Cavalry Leader, sleeps on the Field of Battle— Pope thought at the Close of the 29th that the Confederates were retreating— Second Day— Fit z- John ..."

2. Battle-fields of the South: From Bull Run to Fredericksburg; with Sketches by English Combatant (1863)
"... Charge—Defeat of his Right Wing and Centre— The Field of Battle—Capture of Guns and Booty—Death of Major Wheat—Confederates in Striped Pantaloons ..."

3. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages: Der Wendepunkt der Renaissance by Woldemar von Seidlitz, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton (1906)
"He fled from the field of battle with Conradin. .... . . 500 horsemen; with him were his companions Frederick of Baden, Count Gerard of Pisa, Galvan Lancia ..."

4. Scotland by Walter Scott, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1901)
"... of the English in Cavalry: against their Archery: against their Superiority of Numbers—He summons his Array together—Description of the Field of Battle, ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The republicans of spirit and ability had perished in the field of battle, or in the proscription. The door of the assembly had been designedly left open, ..."

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