About 50 results for ‘Pitched battle’
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Pitched battle
A pitched battle is a battle where both sides choose to fight at a chosen location and time and where either side has the option to disengage either before the battle starts, or shortly after the first armed exchanges. A pitched battle is not a chance encounter such as a skirmish, or where one side is forced to fight at a time not of their choosing such as happens in a siege. For example, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War was fought when the Royalists chose to move off an escarpment to a less advantageous position so that the Parliamentarians would be willing to fight the Battle of Edgehill. In contrast the Battle of Gettysburg, fought during the American Civil War, started by chance as a skirmish, but as both generals chose to reinforce their positions instead of disengaging, they turned what was initially a skirmish into a pitched battle.
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BATAILLE DE MARENGO. - Mort de Desaix (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Arms industry
- Cavalry
- Death
- Equestrianism
- Flag
- General officer
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- Date:
- 19th century
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BATAILLE D'IENA (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Conflagration
- Horse
- Military
- Napoleon
- Officer (armed forces)
- Pitched battle
- …
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- Date:
- 19th century
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BATAILLE DE LA MOSCOWA (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Artillery
- Blood
- Cannon
- Crus (lower leg)
- Death
- First French Empire
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- Date:
- 19th century
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BATAILLE DE LUTZEN (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bayonet
- Cannon
- First French Empire
- Flag
- French people
- Infantry
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- Date:
- 19th century
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BATAILLE DE BRIMSTON-HILL (11 JANVIER 1782)
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cannon
- Fortification
- Officer (armed forces)
- Pitched battle
- Serviceman
- Smoke
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Reprise de Mondement 1914
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cadaver
- Pitched battle
- Ruins
- Serviceman
- Sky
- Tower
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- Date:
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- Augustin Dupré
La Bataille de Cowpens
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- Portrayed subject:
- Flag
- Pitched battle
- Plain
- Serviceman
- Sky
- Smoke
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- Date:
- 18th century
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BATAILLE DE LENS.20 AOUT 1648
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- Portrayed subject:
- Lens, Pas-de-Calais
- Pitched battle
- Plain
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- Date:
- 19th century
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BATAILLE DE LAWFELD.2 JUILLET 1747
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- Portrayed subject:
- Louis XV of France
- Pitched battle
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- Date:
- 18th century
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BATAILLE DE LAWFELD.2 JUILLET 1747
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cannon
- Louis XV of France
- Pitched battle
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- Date:
- 18th century
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REPRESENTATION PRESUMEE DE LA BATAILLE DE LA MONTAGNE BLA...
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cannon
- Carriage
- Hill
- Pitched battle
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Adam Frans van der Meulen
BATAILLE LIVREE PRES DU MONT CASSEL.11 AVRIL 1677
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- Portrayed subject:
- Infantry
- Landscape
- Pitched battle
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- Date:
- 17th century
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BATAILLE D'IVRY.14 MARS 1590
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- Portrayed subject:
- Armour
- Flag
- Helmet
- Henry IV of France
- Horse
- Ivry-la-Bataille
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Hippolyte Bellangé
Cuirassiers de Waterloo ou le chemin creux
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- Portrayed subject:
- Pitched battle
- Waterloo, Belgium
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Odilon Redon
Les Croisés ; Combat des Croisés (autre titre) ; Bataille...
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- Portrayed subject:
- Chivalry
- Horse
- Pitched battle
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- Date:
- 19th century
- 20th century
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LES ACTIONS DU GRAND CONDE, FRIBOURG 1644
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bacharach
- Bingen am Rhein
- Boat
- City
- Durlach
- Fortification
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- Date:
- 17th century
