What is "joining battle"

Usage examples of "joining battle".

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

Dunkirk, that fabulous flight and triumph, was their signal for joining battle: from then onwards, almost every convoy they escorted suffered some sort of attack, either from U-boats or aircraft, and the loss of ships began to be an inevitable part of their sea-going.

That one, at least, wasn't shy about joining battle, even though he had no missiles showing below his wings and must be running low on cannon rounds by now.

The enemy is in a hundred-and-six-minute orbit, so we'll have sufficient time to reach altitude before joining battle.

But he was held for a few seconds, his mouth hanging open in awe, his breathing shallow and amazed, by the sight of the slake-moths and the Weaver joining battle.

As a consequence, and after their first experiences of battle, one finds a growing tendency on the part of the air-fleet admirals to evade joining battle, and to seek rather the moral advantage of a destructive counter attack.

The ocean retained her anger, however, and if the breakers crashing onto the shore were no longer so awesomely high, they remained fully as deadly to any mortal forced into joining battle with them.