"Top 10 Pyrrhic victories" Topic

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John the OFM	04 Feb 2016 10:21 a.m. PST
link Agree with the listing?
ironicon	04 Feb 2016 11:24 a.m. PST
This is a great question. I would say I agree with them all.
Frederick	04 Feb 2016 11:24 a.m. PST
Pretty good list but if Santa Anna had been a little more patient and a lot more careful at San Jacinto the Alamo would be a relatively bloody part of a successful campaign
etotheipi	04 Feb 2016 1:35 p.m. PST
How about my favourite, the Battle of Puebla? Or, from the other side, you could consider the entire French Invasion of Mexico as a Pyrrhic victory. If you start the fighting with San Juan de Ulúa (before Puebla), then the French spent more time capturing Mexico than they did occupying it.
Rapier Miniatures	05 Feb 2016 2:39 a.m. PST
Missed out both Gulf wars, and the Afghanistan campaigns of NATO and the USSR. There was nothing Pyrrhic about Malplaquet though, the French never again faced the allies on the battlefield in the region, letting the cities and fortresses fall one by one to siege. By the logic of this article every battle not won by the war winners is pyrrhic, which is not quite my understanding of the term.
USAFpilot	05 Feb 2016 6:48 p.m. PST
A modern day Pyrrhic victory could be when a billion dollar airplane drops a million dollar missile on a Toyota pickup truck in the middle of the desert killing all three terrorists.

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