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Pyrrhic victory - the meaning and origin of this phrase. ... A victory gained at too great a cost. ... King Pyrrhus of Epirus gained such a victory over the Romans in 279 BC at the battle of Asculum in Apulia. The battle was fought between Pyrrhus' army and the Romans, commanded by Consul Publius Decius Mus.
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Pyrrhic victory ... Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications -- but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.
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Pyrrhic Victory; A victory or success that comes at the expense of great losses or costs. In business, examples of such a victory could be succeeding at a hostile takeover bid or winning a lengthy and expensive lawsuit.
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Furthermore, while this amendment was politically imperative in the House, it could prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for Democrats and proponents of health insurance reform should the resurrection of the abortion question scuttle reform efforts in the Senate.
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Pyrrhus inherited the throne of Epirus in Northern Greece around 306 B.C., and as a young man proved himself on the battlefield again and again. ... The devastation led to his famous statement, "One more such victory and I am lost" -- hence the term "Pyrrhic victory" for any victory so costly as to be ruinous.
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Encyclopedia article about Phyrric victory. Information about Phyrric victory in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... (redirected from Phyrric victory)
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El Independente; Independent Opinions from Our Editors ; ... In a heated, thirty-six hour battle, Meridiana’s police, military garrison, and resident population of genetically engineered beings managed to defeat a superior force of ... Many people have seen the destruction that smashed most of the central core of the city,
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Robert Doughty's Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War, published in 2005, completes his trilogy on the French Army from 1914 to 1940. Both of his other books, The Seeds of Disaster, which is the definitive history of French Army doctrinal development between the wars, and The Breaking Point,
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