Thread:The Clanden/@comment-4704992-20140919214453/@comment-5365119-20140919222139

If you want me to go into more detail about something or want me to come up with more examples, please feel free to ask! This is one of my favorite subjects, so it's no trouble at all.
 * There is another form of tossup which I love toying up with. It reminds us that there are different ways of defining victory and defeat: the pyrric victory. Essentially, this is a battle which was technically won by one side (one side managed to force the other to withdraw), but doing so was so costly in resources and manpower that it wasn't even worth it. The Battle of Bunker Hill is often used as a textbook example of this, in which the Americans defending Boston lost the battle and were forced to pull out, but inflicted so many casualties on the British that the battle was considered a strategic loss.