She'd assembled an army and had brought it to the eve of battle.

He was no longer a boy remembering his i childhood, but a captain on the eve of battle.

But their main concern on the eve of battle was power.

On the eve of battle, they say, men in the trenches tell their life stories to strangers.

He felt like a grimly confident general on the eve of battle.

On the eve of battle he dismissed those forces and offered terms to his brother.

His father died on the eve of battle with the Avars that same year.

One does not learn to fight on the eve of battle, young man.

On the eve of battle, the past took root in the present.

The eve of battle is a time for commanders to rally their troops.