Pyrrhic Victory - Examples

Examples

  • Battle of Heraclea (280 BC) – Pyrrhus of Epirus + Italian allies against the Romans
  • Battle of Asculum (279 BC) – Pyrrhus of Epirus + Italian allies against the Romans
  • Battle of Didao - one of Jiang Wei's Northern Expeditions during the Three Kingdoms. Shu Han VS Cao Wei
  • Battle of Avarayr
  • Battle of Lützen (1632) - Thirty Years' War
  • Battle of Malplaquet (1709) – War of the Spanish Succession
  • Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) - American Revolutionary War
  • Battle of Guilford Court House (1781) - American Revolutionary War
  • Battle of Berezina (1812) - French invasion of Russia (1812)
  • Battle of Crete (1941) – World War II
  • Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (1942) – World War II Pacific theatre, Solomon Islands Campaign
  • Unternehmen Bodenplatte (1945) – World War II, Battle of the Bulge
  • Battle of Chosin Reservoir (1950) – Korean War
  • Battle of Vukovar (1991) – Croatian War of Independence

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