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    A pitched battle or set-piece battle is a battle in which opposing forces each anticipate the setting of the battle, and each chooses to commit to it...
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    earliest pitched battle in recorded history for which details of tactics and formations are known. It is believed to be the largest battle ever fought...
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    William Wallace had not employed. The English army was defeated in a pitched battle which resulted in the deaths of several prominent commanders, including...
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    The Battle of Edgehill (or Edge Hill) was a pitched battle of the First English Civil War. It was fought near Edge Hill and Kineton in southern Warwickshire...
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  • Pitch Battle is a British singing show hosted by Mel Giedroyc on BBC One, which aired for one series in 2017. The show sees rival musical groups facing-off...
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    desired effect of forcing Essex to move to intercept them. The first pitched battle of the war, at Edgehill on 23 October 1642, proved inconclusive, both...
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    the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation (16 April – 2 May 1945). A pitched battle, it was one of the last assaults on large entrenched defensive positions...
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    The Battle of Agrigentum (Sicily, 262 BC) was the first pitched battle of the First Punic War and the first large-scale military confrontation between...
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    The Battle of Kljuc is a pitched battle which took place during the conquest of Bosnia in 1463. In the spring of 1463, Mehmed gathered an army of 150...
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  • The Fabian strategy is a military strategy where pitched battles and frontal assaults are avoided in favor of wearing down an opponent through a war of...
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