Battle (disambiguation)

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Generally, a battle is a combat in warfare between two or more parties.

Battle or battles may also refer to:

Name

• Battle (surname), includes "Battles" as surname, and has a list of persons bearing that name

Fictional characters

• Sgt Mike Battle, a fictional comic character created by Graham Pearce

In military

• Battle (formation), military formation or subdivision of troops
• Battle class destroyer, class of 26 destroyers of the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy
• Fairey Battle, light bomber of the Royal Air Force built by Fairey Aviation in the late 1930s
• List of battles, partial list of battles that have entries in Wikipedia

Places

• Battle, East Sussex, a place in England
• Battle, Powys, a village in mid Wales
• Battle, Reading, a ward in the Borough of Reading, England
• Battle, Wyoming
• Battle River (disambiguation)

In music

• Battles (band), an experimental rock band featuring Dave Konopka, Ian Williams, and John Stanier
• Battle (Korean band), a Korean boy band
• Battle (band), an indie rock band from Surrey, England
• The Battle (George Jones album), a country music album by George Jones
• The Battle (Allen/Lande album), a power metal album by Symphony X vocalist Russell Allen and Masterplan vocalist Jørn Lande
• "Battle", a song by British band Blur from their album 13
• "Battle", a song by Colbie Caillat from her album Coco
• "The Battle", a song by Strawbs on their 1969 debut album Strawbs
• "Battle", a song by Patrick Wolf from his album The Bachelor
• "Battle", an instrumental song by Wolfstone from their EP Burning Horizons
• "the battell", part of the 1591 collection of keyboard pieces My Ladye Nevells Booke by William Byrd

In film, television and written fiction

• "The Battle" (TNG episode), a Season 1 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
• The Battle (1911 film), directed by D.W. Griffith
• The Battle (1923 film), directed by Sessue Hayakawa and Édouard-Émile Violet
• The Battle (1934 film), also known as Thunder in the East
• Battle Picture Weekly, a British comic
• The Battle (novel), 1997 French novel La Bataille by Patrick Rambaud; winner of that year's Prix Goncourt
• The Battle (Kluge novel), 1964 German novel Schlachtbeschreibung
• Lip Sync Battle, U.S. comedy musical show

In other fields

• Battle, a competition in street dance that can take place very informally between two crews of dancers
• Freestyle battle, a contest in which two or more rappers compete or battle each other using freestyle rap
• Battle.net, online gaming service provided by Blizzard Entertainment
• The Battle (boxing), a WBA welterweight title bout between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito

See also

• All pages with titles containing Battle
• Battell
• Battelle (disambiguation)
• Battlefield (disambiguation)
• Battle Creek (disambiguation)
• Battle Royale (disambiguation)
• Battel (disambiguation)