Describe a real or imagined example of phyrrhic victory

The Battles of Heraclea and Asculum

The battle of Malplaquet

The battle of Bunker Hill

The battle of Borodino

The battle of Chancellorsville

A triumph that is joined by huge misfortunes and leaves the champs fit as a fiddle as though they had lost. Pyrrhus was an old general who, subsequent to vanquishing the Romans, advised the individuals who wished to compliment him, "One all the more such triumph and Pyrrhus is fixed."