The ‘battle piece’ genre recasts chaotic battles as orderly planned events

Evidence

The shadows of evening had fallen upon a battlefield of hedges, enclosures, villages, woods, and watercourses, in which the troops were locked in close, fierce fighting, when the Dutch, under the veteran Overkirk, at length traversed the Oudenarde bridges and swung round upon the heights to the north. — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 1356 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

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Broader Connections

• Churchill conveys the chaotic nature of battle effectively. #contradicts (0.60) — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 1356