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

It raided York on the 31st, but did not venture to join battle with Yeo; though a skirmish on August 10 enabled Yeo to capture two schooners.

From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by Brodrick, George C. (George Charles)

But whether we stay or whether we go, the enemy's numbers will be the same, and so will ours, whether we receive them here or join battle with them there.

From Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus by Dakyns, Henry Graham

And thus after conquering the world man's very structure compels him to join battle with himself.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

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

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