The president and his Democratic allies in Congress finally won the battle after more than a year.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

The terrible job of clearing the battlefield fell to the Union soldiers who had won the battle.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

In the eighteen sixties, during the American Civil War, Union soldiers won a battle on Roanoke Island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

That person won a battle with what has been called one of nature's fiercest creatures.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

Two summers had gone by since the start of the American Civil War, and the North had not yet won a major battle in Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

He won battle after battle in the South Pacific area.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

The Union army had won a major battle at Gettysburg,Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

The South had won the battle of Chancellorsville.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

The North won the battle of Shiloh.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

While the flying skills of the German and British pilots were well matched, it was ultimately the greater maneuverability of the British Spitfire that won the long months of battle over the English Channel.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

"I believe that most Hong Kong people will feel that we have won the first battle, able to control the spread of infection from the first index patient,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.08