Meanings of had advantage in English

Now it was the Governor, then the priest, who had advantage as to the light.

Night fell on an undecided field, where neither had advantage; and the enemy perhaps had suffered more heavily than we.

They as much exceeded our cavalry in enterprise as they had advantage over it in knowledge of the country and in assistance from its population.

"Ye have fought like men of old," she said, "and neither had advantage at the last.