Usage examples for embattled:

• This time, the outlaw threw his fierce horde completely around the embattled pile before he advanced with a score of sturdy ruffians to reconnoiter. "The Outlaw of Torn" – Edgar Rice Burroughs

• But the United States stands embattled in front of her southern neighbours, to fight the monster which threatens them all. "South America and the War" – F. A. Kirkpatrick

• And seventeen men, altogether, must pit themselves against an embattled planet with all its population ready and perhaps eager for war. "A Matter of Importance" – William Fitzgerald Jenkins

• Where shall Ulysses shun, or how sustain Nations embattled to revenge the slain? "The Odyssey of Homer" – Homer, translated by Alexander Pope