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donesia íslenska italiano 日本語 ქართული 한국어 latina lietuvių македонски nederlands norsk nynorsk norsk bokmål polski português română русский srpskohrvatski српскохрватски සිංහල simple english slovenčina slovenščina shqip српски srpski svenska தமிழ் türkçe татарча tatarça українська tiếng việt 粵語 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia victory at a cost tantamount to defeat for the ep by zao see pyrrhic victory ep for the album by intwine see pyrrhic victory album for other uses see winning a battle losing the war cartoon satirizing james g blaine s campaign in 1884 by noting his party s victory in maine s early gubernatorial election this was traditionally seen as a bellwether for future presidential victory but had come at great financial cost another victory like this and our money s gone a pyrrhic victory ˈ p ɪr ɪ k ⓘ pirr ik is a victory gained at such a cost to the victor that it is tantamount to defeat 1 the phrase references a statement attributed to pyrrhus of epirus after his victory against the romans in the battle of asculum in 279 bc plutarch reports that pyrrhus exclaimed if we are victorious in one more battle with the romans then we shall be utterly ruined 2 etymology edit a pyrrhic victory is named after king pyrrhus of epirus whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the romans at the battle of heraclea in 280 bc and the battle of asculum in 279 bc during the pyrrhic war after the latter battle plutarch relates in a report by dionysius the armies separated and it is said pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one other such victory would utterly undo him for he had lost a great part of the forces he brought with him and almost all his particular friends and principal commanders there were no others there to make recruits and he found the confederates in italy backward on the other hand as from a fountain continually flowing out of the city the roman camp was quickly and plentifully filled up with fresh men not at all abating in courage for the loss they sustained but even from their very anger gaining new force and resolution to go on with the war plutarch life of pyrrhus 3 in both epirote victories the romans suffered greater casualties but they had a much larger pool of replacements so the casualties had less impact on the roman war effort than the losses had on the campaign of king pyrrhus the report is often quoted as ne ego si iterum eodem modo vicero sine ullo milite epirum revertar if i achieve such a victory again i shall return to epirus without a single soldier orosius 4 or if we are victorious in one more battle with the romans we shall be utterly ruined plutarch 5 examples edit war edit this list comprises examples of battles that ended in a pyrrhic victory it is not intended to be complete but to illustrate the concept battle of asculum 279 bc 5 pyrrhus of epirus and italian allies against the roman republic the romans though suffering twice as many casualties could easily replenish their ranks pyrrhus lost most of his commanders and a great part of the forces he had brought to italy and he withdrew to sicily battle of avarayr 451 6 7 vardan mamikonian and christian armenian rebels against the sassanid empire the persians were victorious and forced the outnumbered armenians to retreat but lost so many soldiers that the battle proved to be a strategic victory for armenians as avarayr paved the way to the nvarsak treaty ad 484 which assured armenian autonomy and religious freedom battle of st jakob an der birs 1444 8 the battle itself was a devastating defeat for the swiss and a significant blow to bern the canton which contributed the force it was nevertheless a swiss success in strategic terms because of the heavy casualties on the french side the original plan of moving towards zürich where a swiss force of 30 000 was ready was judged unfavorably by the dauphin the french troops turned back contributing to the eventual swiss victory in the old zürich war last stand and final charge from the fortress of szigetvár painting by johann peter krafft 1825 siege of szigetvár 1566 9 10 ottoman habsburg wars although the ottomans won the siege after 33 days it can be seen as a pyrrhic victory because of the heavy ottoman casualties the death of sultan suleiman and the resulting delay to the ottoman push for vienna that year which suspended ottoman expansion in europe siege of ostend 1601 1604 11 12 13 eighty years war for three years the spanish attempted to capture this port from dutch and english defenders even as the dutch expanded their territory further east including capturing the port of sluis to replace ostend before surrendering the spaniards ultimately captured the city but the vast cost and casualties of the siege were compounded by spain s subsequent campaign to recapture the dutch gains which achieved little and by 1607 spain was bankrupt the resultant twelve years truce effectively made the dutch republic an independent state battle of gangwana 1741 at gangwana the 1 000 strong rathore cavalry of the kingdom of marwar fought against the combined armies of the mughal empire and jaipur numbering 100 000 with hundreds of cannons and artillery jaipur emerged victorious but with heavy losses of 12 000 killed and thousands wounded resulting in a peace treaty favorable to marwar 14 15 battle of bunker hill 1775 16 17 american revolutionary war after mounting three assaults on the colonial forces the british won control of the boston peninsula in the early stages of the war but the engagement cost them many more casualties than the americans had incurred including a large number of officers and led them to adopt more cautious methods which helped american rebel forces the political repercussions increased colonial support for independence battle of guilford court house 1781 18 19 american revolutionary war in this short battle the outnumbered british force defeated an american army the british lost a considerable number of men and their drive to conquer the southern colonies changed course battle of chancellorsville 1863 20 american civil war general robert e lee split his army in the face of joseph hooker s larger union force the audacious strategy allowed the confederate army to win the day against a numerically superior foe however 20 of lee s army was injured or killed including general stonewall jackson and his losses were difficult to replace lee s weakened army went on the offensive but less than two months later was defeated and forced to retreat after the battle of gettysburg japanese aircraft prepare to take off from shōkaku during the battle of the santa cruz islands battle of the santa cruz islands 1942 21 22 23 world war ii solomon islands campaign japanese and allied naval forces met during the struggle for guadalcanal and nearby islands after an exchange of carrier air attacks u s surface ships retreated with one aircraft carrier sunk along with a destroyer and another carrier and a battleship severely damaged the japanese carrier forces achieved a tactical victory as none of their ships were sunk but the heavy loss of 100 airplanes and irreplaceable veteran aircrews was to the strategic advantage of the allies japanese ground forces on guadalcanal had also just lost the battle for henderson field and were in no position to take advantage of the new situation battle of chosin reservoir 1950 24 25 korean war the chinese army attempted to encircle and destroy the much smaller united nations forces but in a 17 day battle in freezing weather the u n forces inflicted crippling losses on the chinese while making a fighting withdrawal the chinese occupied northeast korea but they did not recover until the spring and the u n maintained a foothold in korea the ruined streets of vukovar ten days after its surrender battle of vukovar 1991 26 27 croatian war of independence the yugoslav people s army jna laid siege to the city of vukovar held by the croatian national guard and civilian volunteers after 87 days the ruined city fell to the jna although the yugoslav army and serbian paramilitaries had about twenty times more soldiers as well as armoured and artillery superiority they suffered twice as many losses the battle exhausted the jna and proved a turning point in the croatian war of independence politics sports and law edit the term is used as an analogy in business politics and sports to describe struggles that end up ruining the victor a pyrrhic victory in a sporting context could range from a team winning a game yet a star player gets hurt in the process or a win costing them an opportunity at a better selection in the draft 28 29 theologian reinhold niebuhr commented on the necessity of coercion in preserving the course of justice by warning moral reason must learn how to make coercion its ally without running the risk of a pyrrhic victory in which the ally exploits and negates the triumph karl paul reinhold niebuhr 30 in beauharnais v illinois a 1952 u s supreme court decision involving a charge proscribing group libel associate justice black alluded to pyrrhus in his dissent if minority groups hail this holding as their victory they might consider the possible relevancy of this ancient remark another such victory and i am undone hugo black 31 references edit gill n s november 16 2019 what is a pyrrhic victory and how did the term begin thoughtco archived from the original on april 23 2023 retrieved november 25 2023 cornell tim 1995 the beginnings of rome london routledge p 364 isbn 0 415 01596 0 oclc 31515793 cornell cites plutarch pyrrhus 21 9 plutarch trans john dryden pyrrhus hosted on the internet classics archive historiarum adversum paganos libri iv 1 15 1 2 plutarch the life of pyrrhus parallel lives vol ix 1920 ed loeb classical library p 21 8 retrieved january 26 2017 hewsen robert h august 17 2011 avarayr encyclopædia iranica so spirited was the armenian defense however that the persians suffered enormous losses as well their victory was pyrrhic and the king faced with troubles elsewhere was forced at least for the time being to allow the armenians to worship as they chose susan paul pattie 1997 faith in history armenians rebuilding community smithsonian institution press p 40 isbn 1560986298 the armenian defeat in the battle of avarayr in 451 proved a pyrrhic victory for the persians though the armenians lost their commander vartan mamikonian and most of their soldiers persian losses throughout battles in the 4th to 6th century were proportionately heavy close to 350 000 and armenia was allowed to remain christian church clive h head randolph c eds 2013 chronology a concise history of switzerland cambridge concise histories cambridge cambridge university press pp 283 296 isbn 978 0 521 19444 0 retrieved 2026 05 20 kohn george c ed 2006 dictionary of wars third ed infobase publishing p 47 isbn 978 0 8160 6577 6 lázár istván tezla albert 1999 an illustrated history of hungary 6th ed budapest corvina books p 70 isbn 978 963 13 4887 3 motley john lothrop 1908 motley s dutch nation being the rise of the dutch republic 1555 1584 university of wisconsin harper brothers p 754 for three years ostend had occupied the entire spanish army exhausting entirely the resources of spain while leaving the dutch free to increase their wealth and power by trade and commerce it had paid to defend ostend cortés manuel lomas 2008 la expulsión de los moriscos del reino de aragón política y administración de una deportación 1609 1611 centro de estudios mudéjares p 38 isbn 9788496053311 la pirrica victoria en el sitio de ostende maland david 1980 europe at war 1600 1650 rowman and littlefield isbn 9780847662135 it was in many ways a pyrrhic victory because maurice in 1604 led his troops against sluys what began as a diversionary raid to lure spain from ostend developed into a properly conducted siege and since neither side would take risk of interfering with the others siege works the fall of ostend was balanced by the fall of sluys which it could be argued was more useful to the united provinces permanent dead link fall of the mughal empire vol i 4th ed volume 1 pp 175 176 rajasthan through the ages sarup sons 2008 01 01 p 154 isbn 9788176258418 battle of gangwana 1741 clinton henry 1954 willcox william b ed the american rebellion sir henry clinton s narrative of his campaigns 1775 1782 yale university press oclc 1305132 a few more such victories would have shortly put an end to british dominion in america battle of bunker hill encyclopædia britannica encyclopædia britannica inc december 8 2016 retrieved january 25 2016 although the british eventually won the battle it was a pyrrhic victory that lent considerable encouragement to the revolutionary cause british whig party leader and war critic charles james fox said another such victory would ruin the british army baker thomas e another such victory eastern acorn press 1981 isbn 0 915992 06 x mcgrath nick battle of guilford courthouse george washington s mount vernon digital encyclopedia mount vernon ladies association retrieved january 26 2017 in three hours cornwallis s army took possession of the field but it was a pyrrhic victory cornwallis could not afford the casualties his army sustained and withdrew to wilmington by doing so cornwallis ceded control of the countryside to the continentals evan andrews 1 september 2015 5 famous pyrrhic victories history a e television networks llc retrieved 17 july 2016 levine alan j 1995 the pacific war japan versus the allies westport connecticut praeger p 104 isbn 0 275 95102 2 retrieved january 26 2017 this battle of the santa cruz islands was clearly a japanese victory the sole japanese victory in a carrier battle during the war but it was a pyrrhic victory which the japanese were in no condition to exploit the damage to their carriers was serious and their plane losses were very heavy moreover the land based air force at rabaul was exhausted many of its best pilots were dead in late october the japanese air effort fell off steeply because of its heavy losses and inadequate pilot training program the japanese naval air force had already slipped into a qualitative decline from which it never recovered pike francis 2015 guadalcanal henderson field and the santa cruz islands september 1942 january 1943 hirohito s war the pacific war 1941 1945 london bloomsbury publishing plc p 509 isbn 978 1 4725 9670 3 retrieved january 26 2017 vice admiral nagumo who was transferred to shore duty after the battle reported to the combined fleet with greater than usual insight and honesty this battle was a tacti...