S: (n) New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
S: (n) battle, conflict, fight, engagement (a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war) "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
S: (n) Armageddon (any catastrophically destructive battle) "they called the first World War an Armageddon"
S: (n) pitched battle (a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place)
S: (n) dogfight (an aerial engagement between fighter planes)
S: (n) assault (close fighting during the culmination of a military attack)
S: (n) Battle of Britain (the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it)
S: (n) Drogheda (in 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants)