A decisive victory is a military victory in battle that definitively resolves the objective being fought over, ending one stage of the conflict and beginning another stage. Until a decisive victory is achieved, conflict over the competing objectives will continue.
Until a decisivevictory is achieved, conflict over the competing objectives will continue. The phrases "decisive battle" and "decisivevictory" have evolved...
on the route from Mecca to Taif. The battle ultimately ended in a decisivevictory for the Muslims, and it is one of the few battles mentioned by name...
participating in the siege of Ochakov, as well as victories at Kinburn and Focșani. Suvorov won a decisivevictory at the Battle of Rymnik, and afterwards defeated...
Victory and Feast of the Holy Rosary is celebrated on 7 October in the General Roman Calendar. 7 October is the anniversary of the decisivevictory of...
a decisivevictory for the Union, but the term is considered imprecise. It is inarguable that Lee's offensive on July 3 was turned back decisively and...
Themistocles, and the Achaemenid Empire under King Xerxes. It resulted in a decisivevictory for the outnumbered Greeks. The battle was fought in the straits between...
invading force on Sunday 1 March 1896, near the town of Adwa. The decisivevictory thwarted the campaign of the Kingdom of Italy to expand its colonial...
king of the Bharatas and a confederation of tribes. It resulted in a decisivevictory for the Bharatas and subsequent formation of the Kuru polity. The Battle...
Kriege (On War, 1832) Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) had defined decisive battle as a victory which had political results ... the object is to overthrow the...
ensuing Battle of Salamis, the allied Greek navy had won an unlikely but decisivevictory, preventing the conquest of the Peloponnesus. Xerxes then retreated...
superior tactics and the clever usage of light infantry forces. It was a decisivevictory for the League of Corinth, and it led to the fall of the Achaemenid...
Mexican army of 4,000. On May 5, 1862, the Mexicans decisively defeated the French army. The victory represented a significant morale boost to the Mexican...
October 19, 1781, at exactly 10:30 am in Yorktown, Virginia. It was a decisivevictory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by...
then captured the evacuated city of Athens. The Greek fleet—seeking a decisivevictory over the Persian armada—attacked and defeated the invading force at...
him the leading wicket-taker in the match as India proceeded to a decisivevictory. Despite this, Indian coach Gary Kirsten said that Mishra would be...
and lived in Ephra (Ophrah). As a leader of the Israelites, he won a decisivevictory over a Midianite army despite a vast numerical disadvantage, leading...
near Tarain (modern Taraori in Haryana, India). The battle ended in decisivevictory for the Rajputs; however, Muhammad of Ghor managed to escape and returned...
which is 110 kilometres (68 mi), north of Delhi. The battle ended in a decisivevictory for the invading Ghurids and their successful penetration in north...
but they were not free in their decision-making... in all matters the decisive authority lay with Caesar alone". Badian 2012; Meier 1995, pp. 447–48....
commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. Washington led American forces to a decisivevictory over the British in the Revolutionary War, leading the British to sign...
prevented Hannibal from being reinforced, and he was unable to win a decisivevictory. A counter-invasion of North Africa, led by the Roman general Scipio...
871, and almost faced defeat against the Danish Vikings until his decisivevictory at the Battle of Edington in 878. After the battle, the Vikings still...
army suffered anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000 killed. The battle was a decisivevictory for the Zulus and caused the defeat of the first British invasion of...
desert, the French army, led by General Napoleon Bonaparte, scored a decisivevictory against the main army of the local Mamluk rulers, wiping out almost...
October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisivevictory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War...
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