give battle to
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But Castro was holed up on Che Guevara's farm outside Havana, getting ready to give battle to Roca and the old Reds.
From Time Magazine Archive
"My brother Brian and I watched the Shoan armies as they went north to give battle to Negus Mikael and his Wollo hordes," he writes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cacique said, that on a certain night he of Quigalta would come to give battle to the Governor.
From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]
The man who possesses all these characteristics can give battle to the world and he will conquer.
From The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by George Stewart
The duc de Nevers, as we have seen, declining to give battle to the Spaniards who had crossed the stream, had prepared to retreat on the main body of the army.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
