conflict

conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes)

organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict

an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000

open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)

actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency

bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension

actions counter to the main group activity

strife resulting from a lack of agreement

any hard struggle between equally matched groups

a bitter struggle for territory or power or control or rights

the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten

a minor short-term fight

hand-to-hand fighting at close quarters

a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling)

the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)

conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders)

a brief but vigorous fight

the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat

disorderly fighting

a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor

a fight with bare fists

the act of subjecting to strong attack

the act of overcoming or outdoing

a noisy fight

a noisy fight in a crowd

fighting with knives

a fight between rival gangs of adolescents

a fight between two people

a bitter quarrel between two parties

a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other

an active struggle between competing entities

conflict between law enforcement and those who deal in illegal drugs

a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win

the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it

in 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants

a battle in northern France in which English longbowmen under Henry V decisively defeated a much larger French army in 1415

a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian armies of Czar Alexander I and the Austrian armies of Emperor Francis II

a battle in which the Scots under Robert the Bruce defeated the English and assured the independence of Scotland

a battle in 680 in which the grandson of Mohammed and his followers were killed

a battle during World War II; in December 1944 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise

a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918

the First Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession

Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army

the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (1485); Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned as Henry VII

in 1214 the French under Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages

a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690; William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts

a battle in 937 when Athelstan defeated the Scots

a pitched battle in the Mexican War in 1847; United States forces under Zachary Taylor defeated the Mexican forces under Santa Anna at a locality in northern Mexico

either of two battles during the American Civil War (1861 and 1862); Confederate forces defeated the Federal army in both battles

the first important battle of the American War of Independence (1775) which was fought at Breed's Hill; the British defeated the colonial forces

ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC

battle of World War I (1917); Italians were defeated by the Austrian and German forces

a battle in the Apennines in 321 BC in which the Samnites defeated the Romans

a battle in which Philip II of Macedon defeated the Athenians and Thebans (338 BC) and also Sulla defeated Mithridates (86 BC)

the battle in which Attila the Hun was defeated by the Romans and Visigoths in 451

a major battle in the American Civil War (1863); the Confederates under Robert E. Lee defeated the Union forces under Joseph Hooker

a pitched battle in the Mexican War that resulted in a major victory for American forces over Mexican forces at a locality south of Mexico City (1847)

in the American Civil War (1863) the Union armies of Hooker, Thomas, and Sherman under the command of Ulysses S. Grant won a decisive victory over the Confederate Army under Braxton Bragg

a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863); Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces

battle in the American Revolution; Americans under Daniel Morgan defeated the British

the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War; in 1346 the English under Edward III defeated the French under Philip of Valois

battle in 401 BC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne

the battle that ended the second Macedonian War (197 BC); the Romans defeated Philip V who lost his control of Greece

a pitched battle in World War II (1942) resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel

a battle in 1513; the English defeated the invading Scots and James IV was killed

a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland

a pitched battle in which American revolutionary troops captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775

an important battle in the American Civil War (1862); the Union Army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee

a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union

the battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians (334 BC)

a battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943); the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces

the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest

a battle during the Napoleonic Wars (1800); the French defeated the Austrians

a battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC); Lysimachus and Seleucus defeated Antigonus and Demetrius

a battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III

a battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne

the battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians

battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston

a battle in 217 BC in which Hannibal ambushed a Roman army led by Flaminius

(1568) Catholic forces supporting Mary Queen of Scots were routed by Protestants

Thebes defeated Sparta in 371 BC; the battle ended Sparta's military supremacy in Greece

the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)

the principal battle of the Balkan Wars (1912); Bulgarian forces defeated the Turks

a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632); Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Holy Roman Empire under Wallenstein; Gustavus Adolphus was killed

a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I

a battle in which the Danes defeated the Saxons in 991; celebrated in an old English poem

the site of three famous battles among Greek city-states: in 418 BC and 362 BC and 207 BC

a battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians

a battle in 1800 in which the French under Napoleon Bonaparte won a great victory over the Austrians

a battle in 1644 in which the Parliamentarians under the earl of Manchester defeated the Royalists under Prince Rupert

a battle during the second Punic War (207 BC); Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal was defeated by the Romans which ended Hannibal's hopes for success in Italy

a battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the English forces and their allies defeated the French

a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution (1778) that ended with the withdrawal of British forces

a battle in 1645 that settled the outcome of the first English Civil War as the Parliamentarians won a major victory over the Royalists

a battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese

battle in which the ruler of Afghanistan defeated the Mahrattas in 1761

Caesar defeated Pompey in 48 BC

Octavian and Mark Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius in 42 BC

the victory in 1757 by the British under Clive over Siraj-ud-daula that established British supremacy over Bengal

a defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC

the battle in 1356 in which the English under the Black Prince defeated the French

a battle in the Chino-Japanese War (1894); Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese

a battle in which Mexican forces defeated the French in 1862

a major victory by the Romans over the Macedonians in 168 BC; resulted in the downfall of the ancient Macedonian kingdom

a battle between the French and an alliance of Spaniards and Swiss and Venetians in 1512

a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1643); the French defeated the Spanish invaders

a battle in the Seven Years' War (1757); Prussian forces under Frederick the Great defeated the armies of France and Austria

a battle in the Meuse-Argonne operation in World War I (1918); the battle in which American troops launched their first offensive in France

a battle during the American Revolution (1777); the British under Burgoyne were defeated

the Swiss Confederation escaped Hapsburg domination by their victory in 1386

the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory

a battle in World War I (May 1918); the Germans tried to attack before the American numbers were too great to defeat; the tactical success of the Germans proved to be a strategic failure

an indecisive battle in 1859 between the French and Sardinians under Napoleon III and the Austrians under Francis Joseph I

battle in World War I (1916)

battle of World War II (1944)

a battle between the armies of Grant and Lee during the Wilderness Campaign

a battle in World War I (1914); decisive German victory over the Russians

a battle in France in 687 among the descendants of Clovis

a battle in 9 AD in which the Germans under Arminius annihilated three Roman Legions

the final battle of the War of the Roses in 1471 in which Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians

a famous battle in 480 BC; a Greek army under Leonidas was annihilated by the Persians who were trying to conquer Greece

a battle in central Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans under Flaminius in 217 BC

the French defeated the Austrian and Prussian troops in 1792 (with a famous cannonade from the French artillery)

a battle in World War I (1916); in some of the bloodiest fighting in World War I the German offensive was stopped

a battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809); Napoleon defeated the Austrians

the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon

a battle in the Korean War (November 1950); when UN troops advanced north to the Yalu River 200,000 Chinese troops crossed the river and drove them back

battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others

battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient

battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery

the battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War

the naval battle in which Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian's fleet under Agrippa in 31 BC

islands west of Sicily (now known as the Egadi Islands) where the Romans won a naval victory over the Carthaginians that ended the first Punic War in 241 BC

a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC)

a naval battle in World War II; Allied land-based bombers destroyed a Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea in March 1943

a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers

a naval battle of the American Civil War (1862); the indecisive battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac

an indecisive naval battle in World War I (1916); fought between the British and German fleets off the northwestern coast of Denmark

Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope

a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet

naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands

a decisive naval battle in the War of Greek Independence (1827); the Turkish and Egyptian fleet was defeated by an allied fleet of British and French and Russian warships

a naval battle in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Passero in which the Spanish navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719)

a naval battle in World War II (1944); a decisive naval victory for the United States fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte

a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the United States fleet bottled up the Spanish ships in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba and destroyed them when they tried to escape

in the English Channel a small fleet of British ships successfully defeated the large armada sent from Spain by Philip II to invade England

a naval battle in 1805 off the southwest coast of Spain; the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the English under Nelson (who was mortally wounded)

a naval battle in the Russo-Japanese War (1905); the Japanese fleet defeated the Russian fleet in the Korean Strait

any catastrophically destructive battle

a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place

a pitched battle between naval fleets

an engagement fought between two military forces

fighting; acts of overt warfare

a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other

the act of initiating hostilities

an aerial engagement between fighter planes

close fighting during the culmination of a military attack

physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest

a direct and violent assault on a stronghold

a state of conflict between persons

a state of conflict between colors

a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension)

a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)

a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals

a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement

a verbal dispute; a wrangling argument

an outburst of controversy

an argument in which the participants are trying to gain some advantage

a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)

an intense verbal dispute

a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations

a difference between the views of young people and their parents

an angry dispute

noisy quarrel

a quarrel about petty points

a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship)