Word: pyrrhically
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Dates: during 1919-1919
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Nearly all of us can remember with what savage pride we read of the Pyrrhic victory of the British troops at Bunker Hill, or of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Nor have the wounds occasioned by the Civil War been entirely healed; rash argument and unreasoning dissension still have their way in many an oral encounter...