A PV claim requires third-party analyses, which have not been provided. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FCC8:AD0B:B100:9D91:C866:A9A5:267 (talk) 04:26, 22 June 2018 (UTC). BrainSlugs83 (talk) 23:40, 6 August 2012 (UTC), This talk page is largely devoted to discussions of what battles could be considered PVs, and yet the "Examples" section in the article was completely removed by DreamGuy on 24 December 2012. Sylke Tempel Fellowships: Call for Applications, Episode 8 - World, Interrupted: the Coronavirus’s Effect on International Affairs. — Molly-in-md (talk) 13:09, 28 July 2020 (UTC), If ever ther was a battle to fall under Pyrrhic victory this was it.

I am documenting the claim here – where it belongs – in case someone wants to actually address it instead of just doing a fingerpointing hit-and-run. Can't figure out why this was a pyrrhic victory. SATXeditor says: (3) the losses relative to the size of the war actually were significant, considering that at the Battle of San Jacinto, the final, decisive battle of the revolution, only marginally more Mexican casualties were suffered--about 850.

173.21.185.76 (talk) 22:36, 1 January 2016 (UTC). I also removed some "Turko-Tang Battle (681)". Flash forward 15 years, and it appears bin Laden has at long last gotten his wish. 1) It cant be any battle just because the number of loses seem like high, as the deffinition reads within the first 3 lines: "A Pyrrhic victory is a victory with devastating cost to the victor. The war on terror, for example, could only be a pyrrhic victory if either the US or the insurgency/Al-Qaeda would win the war, yet neither side has "won" the war yet.200.83.57.71 01:37, 29 September 2007 (UTC). For example, the French invasion of Russia in 1812 saw the French take Moscow.

Someone who wins a Pyrrhic victory has been victorious in some way, though the heavy toll negates a true sense of achievement or profit. War Pyrrhic victories in war are battles that are won only to lead to a loss of the war due to the damages incurred in the battle. Cheers! Readers of the German magazine Der Spiegel were greeted last week by a startling image on the front cover – a cartoon showing Donald Trump holding the severed head of the Statue of Liberty. Europe is now at a crossroads. A pyrrhic victory is a victory won at too great a cost.

You listed the Siege of Port Arthur (1904-1905) in the Russo-Japanese War as a Pyrrhic victory. Among these: (1) the definition of a Pyrrhic victory does not require that the battle by itself decided the entire war, just that it was more like a loss than a victory; (2) the main page for battle of the Alamo also indicates "Most Alamo historians place the number of Mexican casualties at 400–600.

However, the Romans had a much larger supply of men from which to draw soldiers, so their losses did less damage to their war effort than Pyrrhus's losses did to his.". "...a victory with devastating cost to the victor."

In triple meter a set of three unstressed syllables is known as a tribrach foot. This page was last edited on 30 September 2020, at 15:04. © Copyright 2019 German Council on Foreign Relations/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V. In both battles the Japanese took greater or corresponding casualties, lost the ground and certainly didn't cripple their enemy. ), a. Pinkbeast (talk) 14:06, 27 July 2016 (UTC).
* Did the action hinder the victor’s ability to subsequently act? Pinkbeast (talk) 18:12, 10 September 2017 (UTC), I agree that the article should not include non-examples. Pinkbeast (talk) 23:28, 9 November 2018 (UTC), Often overlooked by military historians and there are plenty of reasons to see why this was a pyrrhic victory. Editor, I think that this battle should be added. In the hopes of heading off somebody who would insert good-faith but erroneous entries into the example list, I'm going to document my opinion on these items. Bloody does not equal Pyrrhic. “A Pyrrhic victory is a victory with devastating cost to the victor. Quoting from the lead of the Gallipoli campaign's own WP article: "The campaign was considered a great Ottoman victory."

Molly-in-md (talk) 16:01, 5 February 2013 (UTC), Resolved: Just to be clear, the Examples section was overhauled in 2017 so this comment is no longer applicable.

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