Often, after a single engagement, units were destroyed or rendered ineffective.
"The chancellor is reluctant to commit such a large fleet to a single engagement."
The goal was to gain strategic advantage, not to look for a single decisive engagement.
Not in a single engagement- merely one a day until there were no more challengers left.
One of our kids made ace in a single engagement.
After this single engagement, the cadets were pulled off the front line.
The total casualties of 272 would be the highest total for the 54th in a single engagement during the war.
And of course, they hadn't lost a single engagement yet.
"Not to mention gunpowder and shot, after a single major engagement."
And then you will ask yourself how you could have thought I would deal with such a one for more than a single engagement.