Pyrrhic Victories & Heroic Tragedies
This site is
dedicated to people and events remembered in history as fighting in vain to the
last or failing to triumph against what might now seem with hindsight to be
their own inexorable destiny.
“The
two armies separated; and we are told that Pyrrhus said to one who was congratulating
him on his victory, If we are victorious
in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined” –
Plutarch:
The Life of Pyrrhus
“In
defeat the hero of the Last Stand achieves the greatest of victories, since he
will be remembered for all time.” –
Nathaniel
Philbrick: The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and
the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Fated Heroes
·
Pyrrhus of Epirus (319/318 BC – 272
BC)
·
Hannibal Barca
(247 BC – 182/183 BC)
·
Robert Falcon Scott (1868 – 1912)
Heroic Last Stands
·
Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC)
·
Siege of the Alamo (1836)
·
Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
·
Custer’s Last Stand (1876)
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