Meanings of sanguinary battle in English

Save Shiloh, no other such sanguinary battle had yet been fought on American soil.

It was, indeed, a sanguinary battle, surpassing in this particular any sea-fight of modern times.

Meanwhile on the right, at South Mountain Pass, a still more sanguinary battle had been in progress.

A long and sanguinary battle was fought near Aleppo, in which El-Ghuri was finally defeated through treachery.

So this memorable and sanguinary battle ended.

A fierce and sanguinary battle took place at Bateler's Ford, between two portions of the armies, A.P.

The sanguinary battle of Chickamauga was fought on the 19th and 20th of September.

The war was of short duration, and was practically decided by the sanguinary battle of SENTINUM (295) in Umbria.

Igor was vanquished in a sanguinary battle, taken captive, imprisoned in a convent, and Ysiaslaf became the nominal monarch of Russia.

These were not always sham fights; the contests were, in many instances, real engagements displaying all the horrors of a sanguinary battle.

This was the force engaged on the 19th of December in the famous Swamp Fight, the most sanguinary battle of Philip's War.

Manfred was defeated and slain in a sanguinary battle at Grandella, near Benevento, and Charles soon made himself master of the kingdom.

Next day the British defeated the Turks in a sanguinary battle 15 miles northwest of the captured town, and took many more prisoners.

On the 16th, the Russians attacked the whole line of the French and Sardinian posts, and, after a long and sanguinary battle, were defeated.

A sanguinary battle at Perryville resulted in the complete repulse of the Confederates, who retreated into Tennessee, carrying with them a vast quantity of plunder.

There was then a sanguinary battle,-thefew survivors, probably females, devouring some of the slain to provide for a future brood, and then dying also.