rencounter

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From these extracts it will be seen how commanding officers, when they write their official reports of a night rencounter, are apt to draw on their imaginations for the facts.

From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by Kidd, James Harvey

Your friendship for my mother, I am well assured, will induce you to acquaint her with this rencounter: I do not wish it to be concealed.

From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. I by Reeve, Sophia

Guy Fawkes lingered for a moment, doubting whether he should mention his rencounter with Humphrey Chetham.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison

This rencounter at Front Royal was one of the most brilliant affairs of the war and it illustrated well the marvelous intuition with which General Custer often grasped the situation, in an instant of time.

From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by Kidd, James Harvey

Without a thought they began a sort of challenging rencounter with horse-artillery and cavalry.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan