council of war in English
noun
1
a gathering of military officers in wartime.
During the truce that followed, Charles became the president of a council of war that began scrapping the old Habsburg military system and replacing it with one intelligently modelled on the best aspects of the French.
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1. Taking over the monastic premises, there and then a hurried council of war was called.
2. At a council of war, the Confederate officers concluded that they could not hold the railroad crossover.
3. Alert to the possibility of being caught with separated forces that could be destroyed, Khalid called for a council of war.