Achilles, the greatest warrior of the age, withdrew from battle in revenge and nearly cost the Greek armies the war.

Whilst heavier armour provides better protection, it makes vehicles less mobile ( for a given engine power ), limits its air-transportability, increases cost, uses more fuel and may limit the places it can go-for example, many bridges may be unable to support the weight of a main battle tank.

With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.

In western Macedonia however, the lack of coordination between the Greek and Serbian HQs cost the Greeks a setback in the Battle of Vevi on, when the Greek 5th Infantry Division crossed its way with the VI Ottoman Corps ( a part of the Vardar Army consisting of the 16th, 17th and 18th Nizamiye divisions ), retreating to Albania following the battle of Prilep against the Serbs.

The battle ended in an Allied victory, but at a high cost for both sides.

It is also likely individuals taken in battle would be ransomed back to their families and clans at high cost.

The battle for Schmidt cost 6, 184 U. S. casualties — compared with about 3, 000 casualties suffered by the landing forces at Omaha Beach.

Both Grant and his superior, Halleck, placed the blame squarely on Wallace, saying that his incompetence in moving up the reserves had nearly cost them the battle.

As Cinna and Carbo doubled their efforts for war with the looming threat of Sulla, Cinna was unaware that it would not be battle, but his preparations for war which would cost him his life.

" Before sending Admiral Wilhelm Marschall out in Operation Juno, Raeder told him: " We must engage the enemy in battle, even if this should cost us one of the battleships.

Plutarch, by his own admission, did not write histories so much as biographies ; he believed that a jest or a phrase could reveal more about a person's character than could a battle that cost thousands of lives.

However, the cost of the legal battle caused Aureal's investors to cease funding operations, forcing Aureal into bankruptcy.

His rationale was that since the sole motivation of mercenaries is their pay, they will not be inclined to take the kind of risks that can turn the tide of a battle, but may cost them their lives.

The Green Lanterns eventually stopped the renegade after a battle, but at the cost of one of their own: Hammeroon.

Clausewitz dismissed " geometry " as an insignificant factor in strategy, believing instead in the Napoleonic concept of victory through battle and destruction of the opposing force, at any cost.

This, the opening action of the battle, cost Reno a quarter of his command.

Yet the cost was high: the allied casualty figures were approximately double that of the enemy ( sources vary ), leading Marlborough to admit – " The French have defended themselves better in this action than in any battle I've seen.

This was a useful way to reduce the cost of practice, or resupply oneself if control of the battlefield after a battle was retained.

The Siege of Ostend, 1601 to 1604, of which it was said that " the Spanish assailed the unassailable and the Dutch defended the indefensible ", cost a combined total of more than 80, 000 dead or wounded, making it the single bloodiest battle of the Eighty Years ' War.

This battle cost the British 2200 troops several artillery pieces and most of the morale of that British army ; meanwhile French losses were around 200 killed or wounded.

During the first three years of the Second World War, Coastal Command and the Admiralty fought a continuous battle with the RAF and Air Ministry over the primacy of trade defence in relation to the bomber effort against mainland Germany, a strategic tussle which conceivably could have cost the Western Alliance the Battle of the Atlantic.

The battle had cost U. S. forces 17 dead and 52 wounded, while Spanish forces suffered 7 dead and 7 wounded.

As this recklessness had cost the English many ships, command of the fleet was taken from him and given to Rupert, whom he would accompany in the St James's Day Battle, the last battle at sea in which he would participate.

The most widely produced, cost effective and successful tanks of World War II ( the Soviet T-34, the American Sherman tank and the German Panzer IV ) were all medium tank designs, and the success of the concept would later lead to the development of the main battle tank ( which sought to incorporate the best aspects of all three tank types ).

Claude Jannequin's vocal description of a battle ( the French equivalents of tarantara, rum-tum-tum, and boom-boom-boom are very picturesque ) is lots of fun, and the singers get a sense of grace and shape into other chansons by Jannequin and Lassus.

According to M. Forrest, the French knights were so encumbered by their armour that they were exhausted even before the start of the battle.

After the indecisive < ref name =" British historian Townsend Miller "> British historian Townsend Miller: “ But, if the outcome of < nowiki > battle of </ nowiki > Toro, militarily, is debatable, there is no doubt whatsoever as to its enormous psychological and political effects ” in The battle of Toro, 1476, in History Today, volume 14, 1964, p. 270 </ ref > Battle of Toro in 1476 against King Ferdinand II of Aragon, the husband of Isabella I of Castile, he went to France to obtain the assistance of Louis XI, but finding himself deceived by the French monarch, he returned to Portugal in 1477 in very low spirits.

The inside walls of the monument list the names of 660 people, among which are 558 French generals of the First French Empire ; the names of those who died in battle are underlined.

Mérode-Westerloo summarised the case against Tallard's army: " The French lost this battle for a wide variety of reasons.

The Duke's subtle moves and changes in emphasis during the battle – something his opponents failed to realise until it was too late – had caught the French in a tactical vice.

" God knows I go with a heavy heart ," he wrote six days later to his friend and political ally in England, Lord Godolphin, " for I have no hope of doing anything considerable, unless the French do what I am very confident they will not … " – in other words, court battle.

Two hours later the Duke, accompanied by the Dutch field commander Field Marshal Overkirk, General Daniel Dopff, and the Allied staff, rode up to Cadogan where on the horizon to the westward he could discern the massed ranks of the French army deploying for battle along the four mile ( 6. 4 km ) front.

Although Villeroi had the option of enveloping the flanks of the Allied army as they deployed on the plateau of Jandrenouille – threatening to encircle their army – the Duke correctly gauged that the characteristically cautious French commander was intent on a defensive battle along the ridge-line.

The accomplished French officer, Colonel de la Colonie, standing on the plain nearby remembered – " this village was the opening of the engagement, and the fighting there was almost as murderous as the rest of the battle put together.

The word battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning " exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing ", from Late Latin ( taken from Germanic ) battuere " beat ", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri, and comes from the staged battles in the Colosseum in Rome that may have numbered 10, 000 individuals.

* A battle of annihilation is one in which the defeated party is destroyed in the field, such as the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile.

For example, after Henry V of England defeated a French army on October 25, 1415, he met with the senior French herald and they agreed to name the battle after the nearby castle and so it was called the Battle of Agincourt.

At the beginning of the battle, the English simulated flight on their left wing that provoked a hasty charge by the French knights against the archers.

The Battle of the Nile ( also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, in French as the Bataille d ' Aboukir or in Egyptian Arabic as معركة أبي قير البحرية ) was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1 – 3 August 1798.

The battle was the climax of a naval campaign that had ranged across the Mediterranean during the previous three months, as a large French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria, carrying an expeditionary force under General Napoleon Bonaparte.

Trapped in a crossfire, the leading French ships were battered into surrender during a fierce three-hour battle, while the centre was able to successfully repel the initial British attack.

The direction of the wind meant that the French rear division would be unable to easily join the battle and would be cut off from the front portions of the line.

To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.

The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.

The next three British ships, Vanguard in the lead followed by HMS Minotaur and HMS Defence, remained in line of battle formation and anchored on the starboard side of the French line at 18: 40.