Related Clues:

• What generals command
• The North and South, in the Civil War
• You want to beat them
• They aren't behind you
• Ill-fated attackers of 1588 and 1589
• Ones to beat
• The bad guys
• "Where ignorant __ clash by night": Matthew Arnold
• Organizations of military land forces
• Bodies of people organised for war
• Military land forces
• Large fleet of ships
• Large fleets, Spanish perhaps
• They come to blows for the ram about a thousand
• They're for fighting about a thousand of the ram