battalia
Americannoun
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order of battle.
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an armed or arrayed body of troops.
Etymology
Origin of battalia
1585–95; < Italian battaglia body of troops, battle 1
Example Sentences
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The king drew up his army in battalia, in person, and faced them all the next day, inviting them to renew the fight; but they had no stomach to come on again.
From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Defoe, Daniel
He sends him directly to the king, who was by this time at the head of his army, in full battalia, ready to follow his vanguard, expecting a hot day's work of it.
From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Defoe, Daniel
The camp of this main body of cavalry or "battalia," as the body on whom the commander of our army chiefly relied for victory was called, was comparatively still and silent.
From By England's Aid Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Item, six thousand and sixteen Seleucid birds marching in battalia, and picking up straggling grasshoppers in cornfields.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
The camp of this main body of cavalry or "battalia" as the body on whom the commander of our army chiefly relied for victory was called, was comparatively still and silent.
From By England's Aid or the Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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