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Battle
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Unpleasantness that occurs when the armed forces of two opposing sides come into contact. Requires to be at least a battalion and/or a couple of dozen tanks on one/both sides otherwise its just a Firefight, skirmish, neighbourhood turf rumble or throwing out time down the local Sticky Carpet.
Exception: Any street fight involving German and English soccer fans will be called THE BATTLE OF XXXXX in The Sun the next day.
Historical note:
A battle is a medieval maneouver unit consisting of approximately 1/3 of your troops. Ye olde commande and controle not being up to much in the middle ages ... you hade a left wing, a right wing and a centre. Anything more than that was considered a bit gay.
