In pitched battle the Romans knew that they were unlikely to experience a reverse (Tac. Ann. I.68); when it came, defeat by a foreign enemy was rarely in pitched battle, but was usually as a result of an attack or ambush on an army on the march.

In an earlier phase of the war, Ukraine’s leadership had been more equivocal about pitched battles like Bakhmut.

At every post where we changed horses and drivers, we had a pitched battle with the driver for more money than we had been told was the regular rate.

Pitched battle

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