Quotes About Skirmish

After a glorious victory in a grand war, the hardest battle to fight is the first little skirmish of the next campaign.

His dad was in the UQ Navy," he said to me. "Got tinnitus or some shit in a fucking idiot's skirmish with a Bes? tugboat over some disputed lobster pots or whatever.

Five warriors or less is a skirmish. Fifteen or less, a fray. Fifty, a conflict. More than that is a battle.

fact been no more than a small skirmish between the MacKenzies and a detachment of English troops on their way to join the main body of the army. Said army was even now assembling

On May 26, the troops under Alvarado and Olid approached the aqueduct that carried water from the springs of Chapultepec to the city. The Aztecs had expected this attack on their water supply and were prepared to meet it. But after a very brief skirmish, they were routed, and the invaders smashed the aqueduct.

In any hand-to-hand combat, there's a constant back-and-forth of blows

than of a border skirmish that went tragically wrong.

It was a little skirmish across a century.