Talk:Pitched battle

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[edit] Skirmish?

There are multiple references (and a link) to the term skirmish, but how it is being used has nothing to do with how it is defined on the linked page. It seems to me that meeting engagement more closely matches in meaning how the word "skirmish" is being used in this article (as in "a chance encounter").

REggert (talk) 21:03, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

The word skirmish existed long before skirmishers the first reference is 1374 and the most recent reference the OED has is 1601 and a definition of "An irregular engagement between two small bodies of troops, esp. detached or outlying portions of opposing armies; a petty fight or encounter. Also occas. without article, as a mode of fighting." --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 23:42, 22 March 2008 (UTC)