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the moment plans meet chaos and discover they were never on speaking terms
means A violent fight between opposing forces, whether armies on a field, ideas in a debate, or you against a stubborn jar lid.
from From Old French 'bataille,' which came from Late Latin 'battualia' — military exercises in fighting and fencing — rooted in the Latin verb 'battuere,' meaning to beat or strike. That same striking-verb is the ancestor lurking behind 'batter,' 'battery,' and 'combat,' all of them descended from the simple human act of hitting something repeatedly.
- deadliest day
- Antietam killed 22,000 Americans in one September afternoon
- sound weapon
- bagpipes were classified as instruments of war
- naming logic
- victors usually pick the name, hence the disputes
- shortest fight
- Anglo-Zanzibar war lasted under 40 minutes
- word root
- derives from Latin battuere, meaning to beat
battle of thermopylae — 480 bc, 300 spartans vs persian army at narrow greek pass
battle of waterloo — june 1815, belgium, defeated napoleon and ended his rule
battle of the somme — 1916, wwi france, over 1 million casualties in 5 months
battle of hastings — 1066, norman conquest of england, changed history