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Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war

  1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War
  2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated
  3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2
  4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812
  5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution
  6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II
  7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution
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Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war

  1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War
  2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated
  3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2
  4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812
  5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution
  6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II
  7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution
  8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2
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Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war

  1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War
  2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated
  3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2
  4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812
  5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution
  6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II
  7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution
  8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2
  9. Tannenberg - Germany - World War I
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Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war

  1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War
  2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated
  3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2
  4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812
  5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution
  6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II
  7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution
  8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2
  9. Tannenberg - Germany - World War I
  10. Thermopylae - Persia - Second Greco-Persian War
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Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war

  1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War
  2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated
  3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2
  4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812
  5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution
  6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II
  7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution
  8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2
  9. Tannenberg - Germany - World War I
  10. Thermopylae - Persia - Second Greco-Persian War
  11. Battle of the Alamo - Mexico - Texas Revolution
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Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war

  1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War
  2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated
  3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2
  4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812
  5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution
  6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II
  7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution
  8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2
  9. Tannenberg - Germany - World War I
  10. Thermopylae - Persia - Second Greco-Persian War
  11. Lostwithiel - Royalists - English Civil War

The Alamo had already been used as #5.

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Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war

  1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War
  2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated
  3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2
  4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812
  5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution
  6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II
  7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution
  8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2
  9. Tannenberg - Germany - World War I
  10. Thermopylae - Persia - Second Greco-Persian War
  11. Lostwithiel - Royalists - English Civil War
  12. Little Bighorn (Indians were ultimately doomed)
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Battles won by the side that ended up losing the war

  1. Chancellorsville - Confederates - American Civil War
  2. Austerlitz - victory for Napoleon, who was ultimately defeated
  3. Pearl Harbor - Japan - World War 2
  4. Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland - British - War of 1812
  5. Battle of the Alamo - Mexicans - Texas Revolution
  6. Battle of the Coral Sea - Japan - World War II
  7. Guilford Court House - Great Britain - American Revolution
  8. Dunkirk - Germany - World War 2
  9. Tannenberg - Germany - World War I
  10. Thermopylae - Persia - Second Greco-Persian War
  11. Lostwithiel - Royalists - English Civil War
  12. Little Bighorn (Indians were ultimately doomed)
  13. Battle of Asculum, in the Pyrrhic Wars.

I know I’m cheating by going twice in a row, but how could we risk leaving out the battle that gave us the phrase “Pyrrhic Victory”? The Romans lost the Battle of Asculum, but Pyrrhus lost so many irreplaceable men that he commented, “One more such victory and we are finished.”
I pass on new topic

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Well, since it’s International Women’s Day:

New: Famous women, but no repeating the same country.

  1. Indira Gandhi - India
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Famous women, but no repeating the same country.

  1. Indira Gandhi - India
  2. Margaret Thatcher- England
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Famous women, but no repeating the same country.

  1. Indira Gandhi - India
  2. Margaret Thatcher- England
  3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States
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Famous women, but no repeating the same country.

  1. Indira Gandhi - India
  2. Margaret Thatcher- England
  3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States
  4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines
33696

Famous women, but no repeating the same country.

  1. Indira Gandhi - India
  2. Margaret Thatcher- England
  3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States
  4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines
  5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia
    March is National Women’s History Month! Cori, born in Czechoslovakia, was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Famous women, but no repeating the same country.

  1. Indira Gandhi - India
  2. Margaret Thatcher- England
  3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States
  4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines
  5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia
  6. Queen Isabella -Spain
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Famous women, but no repeating the same country.

  1. Indira Gandhi - India
  2. Margaret Thatcher- England
  3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States
  4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines
  5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia
  6. Queen Isabella -Spain
  7. Madame Marie Curie - France
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Famous women, but no repeating the same country.

  1. Indira Gandhi - India
  2. Margaret Thatcher - England
  3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States
  4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines
  5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia
  6. Queen Isabella - Spain
  7. Madame Marie Curie - France
  8. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma
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Famous women, but no repeating the same country.

  1. Indira Gandhi - India
  2. Margaret Thatcher - England
  3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States
  4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines
  5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia
  6. Queen Isabella - Spain
  7. Madame Marie Curie - France
  8. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma
  9. Anita Ekberg - Sweden
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Famous women, but no repeating the same country.

  1. Indira Gandhi - India
  2. Margaret Thatcher - England
  3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States
  4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines
  5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia
  6. Queen Isabella - Spain
  7. Madame Marie Curie - France
  8. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma
  9. Anita Ekberg - Sweden
  10. Celine Dion - Canada
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Famous women, but no repeating the same country.

  1. Indira Gandhi - India
  2. Margaret Thatcher - England
  3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States
  4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines
  5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia
  6. Queen Isabella - Spain
  7. Madame Marie Curie - France
  8. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma
  9. Anita Ekberg - Sweden
  10. Celine Dion - Canada
  11. Natassja Kinski - Germany
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Famous women, but no repeating the same country.

  1. Indira Gandhi - India
  2. Margaret Thatcher - England
  3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States
  4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines
  5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia
  6. Queen Isabella - Spain
  7. Madame Marie Curie - France
  8. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma
  9. Anita Ekberg - Sweden
  10. Celine Dion - Canada
  11. Natassja Kinski - Germany
  12. Catherine of Siena - Italy