heroic battles
Legendary courageous warfare
Heroic battles are conflicts characterized by extraordinary courage, sacrifice, or against-the-odds struggle.
The phrase often appears in historical narratives, fantasy fiction, and video games: The film depicts the heroic battles of the resistance fighters.
It can also describe figurative struggles: her heroic battle against cancer.
The modifier heroic elevates ordinary conflict to something noble or legendary.
- MarathonGreek town, ancient battle site
- HastingsEnglish seaside town, historic
- TroyAncient Anatolian city
- WaterlooCrushing, decisive defeat
- gloryExalted honor and praise
sword and shield · courage · naval engagements · sieges · resistance movements · band of brothers · sacrifice · Gettysburg · valor · Agincourt · Alamo · aerial dogfights · Stalingrad · martyrdom · fallen heroes · revolutions · last stands · against all odds
heroic battlesatrocities
Extremely cruel acts
massacres · war crimes · mutinies · desertion · butchery
heroic battlespeace treaties
Formal agreements ending wars
nonviolent resistance · ceasefires · armistices · reconciliation · peaceful protests