join battle with

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To the hairy-handed frontier town of Elyria, Ohio came the Rev. John Jay Shipherd to join battle with the Devil.

From Time Magazine Archive

I forbade Italy to join battle with the Teucrians; why this quarrel in face of my injunction?

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

But ever Sir Gawaine tried to inflame the mind of King Arthur and his kinsmen against Sir Lancelot, and he advised them to join battle with their enemy.

From King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Gilbert, Henry

The Romans, for their part, were eager to join battle with all speed: their force was a strong one, they had little provision, and consequently would often go up to the foe's palisade.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

He yearned with a great yearning for the district attorney and Rafe Tuckleton to join battle with him.

From The Rider of Golden Bar by White, William Patterson