Word: asculum
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...frankest admissions of modern times was Lieut. General ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell's after retreating from Burma: "I claim we got a hell of a beating." Classic example of the frank general is the Greek Pyrrhus. Upon receiving congratulations on his costly victory over the Romans at Asculum (279 B.C.), he replied: "Another such victory and we are undone...
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