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A pyrrhic victory occurs when the victorious side has suffered more casualties than the defeated side. In this case, the Anglo-French blockade was forced to accept Argentina's sovereignity over Paraná and the other inland rivers, so Argentina won despite it's higher number of casualties, that's why it's a pyrrhic Argentine victory, not vice versa.
According to the day of commemoration, this was an Anglo-French victory, but at such cost that they gave up in the end. So that would be a Pyrrhic Anglo-French victory. A decisive Argentine Victory would suggest the complete loss of the Anglo-French fleets perhaps. As I read it here, the Anglo-French wanted to have navigation of the river and got it. And then thought better of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.221.192 ( talk) 15:44, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
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"It's already covered by the proviso "Do not introduce non-standard terms like "decisive", "marginal" or "tactical" - "Pyrrhic" being even less standard. " and
" the deprecation of such terms in the infobox does not mean that the sources should not be represented in the lead, where prose can convey such nuance"
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A pyrrhic victory occurs when the victorious side has suffered more casualties than the defeated side. In this case, the Anglo-French blockade was forced to accept Argentina's sovereignity over Paraná and the other inland rivers, so Argentina won despite it's higher number of casualties, that's why it's a pyrrhic Argentine victory, not vice versa.
According to the day of commemoration, this was an Anglo-French victory, but at such cost that they gave up in the end. So that would be a Pyrrhic Anglo-French victory. A decisive Argentine Victory would suggest the complete loss of the Anglo-French fleets perhaps. As I read it here, the Anglo-French wanted to have navigation of the river and got it. And then thought better of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.221.192 ( talk) 15:44, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
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Transcribed from my talk page:
Hi FarSouthNavy - My reading of
Template talk:Infobox military conflict#Use of "Pyrrhic victory" is that Pyrrhic is covered by the existing statement - hence
"It's already covered by the proviso "Do not introduce non-standard terms like "decisive", "marginal" or "tactical" - "Pyrrhic" being even less standard. " and
" the deprecation of such terms in the infobox does not mean that the sources should not be represented in the lead, where prose can convey such nuance"
I see no agreement that "Pyrrhic" is acceptable, whilst "decisive", "marginal" or "tactical" are not. -
Arjayay (
talk)
22:13, 18 December 2022 (UTC)