join battle with

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To the hairy-handed frontier town of Elyria, Ohio came the Rev. John Jay Shipherd to join battle with the Devil.

From Time Magazine Archive

But ever Sir Gawaine tried to inflame the mind of King Arthur and his kinsmen against Sir Lancelot, and he advised them to join battle with their enemy.

From King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Gilbert, Henry

The latter were not slow to join battle with the same weapons.

From The White Feather by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Amazed, puzzled, but as always furiously valiant, Douglas hurried home to join battle with his assailants.

From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)

Do thou receive and join battle with the Tyrrhene cavalry; with thee shall be gallant Messapus, the Latin squadrons, and Tiburtus' division: do thou likewise assume a captain's charge.'

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil