give battle to

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But Castro was holed up on Che Guevara's farm outside Havana, getting ready to give battle to Roca and the old Reds.

From Time Magazine Archive

"My brother Brian and I watched the Shoan armies as they went north to give battle to Negus Mikael and his Wollo hordes," he writes.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fourteen days 450,000 Germans, well trained, well armed, and well fed, were ready to give battle to the ill-prepared armies of France.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France by Parrott, James Edward

Then the decks were cleared, and the bands struck up, and out they steamed, as everybody thought, to give battle to the British fleet.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by Parrott, James Edward

When school was over a picked nine prepared to give battle to the regular one in order to bring out the weak points.

From The Heroes of the School or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin by Chapman, Allen