This disastrous battle is how the term ‘pyrrhic victory’ came to be
The pyrrhic victory was first used as an adjective in the 17th Century to mean a war resembling the Pyrrhus battle. It was mostly used to refer to the disastrous…
5 times soldiers won against the odds
One of the better-known assumptions about combat is that the side with the greater numbers usually wins. Seems pretty self-explanatory, right? Being outnumbered puts you at an automatic disadvantage. Still,…