Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. military The position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver.
- n. naval The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mil. Tactics), (Naval) The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a line formed by troops or ships prepared to deliver or receive an attack
Examples
“In accordance with this plan, he on Monday morning went in personal command of three brigades of Anderson's division, reached the vicinity of Salem Church, and proceeded to form line of battle with the whole force there.”
“Unable to deny that the British line of battle could fire a broadside double in weight to that of the Germans, he developed a skilful argument to prove that this advantage was more than counteracted by other disadvantages ….”
“On the morning of December 11th, before dawn, the dull boom of Lee's signal-guns indicated that the enemy were moving, and the Southern troops formed line of battle to meet the coming attack.”
“To Hill it may have seemed a long, long time before Heth's line of battle came in sight.”
“Such were the relative positions of the two armies on the 1st of May: General Hooker's forces well in advance of Chancellorsville, and rapidly forming line of battle on a ridge in open country; General Lee's, stretching along the whole distance, from Fredericksburg to Tabernacle Church, and certainly not in any condition to deliver or accept battle.”
“We were now the headmost line of battle ship and gaining fast upon the enemy; but the main part of our fleet seemed rather to drop from them.”
“When the fleet of any nation actually beleaguers the port of its enemy, no other has a right to enter their line, any more than their line of battle in the open sea, or their lines of circumvallation, or of encampment, or of battle array on land.”
“General Terry at once came to the post, and ordered the Seventh Cavalry to form line of battle across the Rosebud; he also ordered up his artillery and had them prepare for action, doubtless dreading another “Custer massacre.””
“This morning at four o'clock I was on deck and we passed a division of the Russian Fleet under sail, one three-decker and eight two-deckers of 80 and 74 guns, four frigates, two corvettes, and three or four brigs; the line-of-battle ships formed the line of battle on the larboard tack and bore up with us, but the wind being light they did not keep long in company.”
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N.
“These Virginians and Georgians were in line of battle to the right of and parallel to the Plank Road and about sixty yards from it.”
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