Following the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) during the AmericanRevolutionary War, British General Henry Clinton remarked in hisdiary that "A few more such victories would have shortly put an endto British dominion in America."This remark was a paraphrase of a much earlier (279 BC) remarkby King Pyrrhus of Epirus following the battles at Heraclea andAsculum during the Pyrrhic War. The king's armies defeated theRomans, but in the process sustained devastating losses.Google "Pyrrhic victory" for much, much more.