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the romans??

2007-01-21 01:55:15 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

i mean what army had the least losses like for example the romans only had like 3 or something like that so what army has the most least losses???not counting the u.s. army

2007-01-21 02:21:40 · update #1

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Not quite. The answer is the army of Byzantium. Their tactics were designed to minimize losses AND they had a superb military medical system for soldiers injured in battle or taken sick on campaign. No better field medical system was seen in the Western World until the nineteenth century.

2007-01-21 02:09:03 · answer #1 · answered by Tony B 6 · 0 0

Actually the armies of the ancient world who would have had the least numberr of battles lost would have been the earliest because there was practically no great opponents around then.
The EGYPTAINS were victorious in most of their history accept when when conquered by the HYKSOS, ASSYRIAN and PERSIANS. The other conquests were when someone else ruled Egypt. The ASSYRIANS were almost all victorious except when they fell to the Medes and Babylonians in 605 B.C. Two years later they tried to hold out at Harran in 603 B.C. but where crushed and the Assyrian empire disappeared from history. So to have the armies who have had least losses you'd have to go back to the beginning of history.
The Romans had tons of loses.
AGAINST THE
GAULS in 395 B.C.
CAUDINE FORKS in 322 B.C.
HERCULAUEM in 279 B.C.
ASCULUM in 278 B.C
TICINUS + TRIBIA in 118 B.C.
LAKE TRESIMUS in 117 B.C.
CANNAE in 116 B.C.
AGAINST THE
CIMBRI + TEUTONI 104 B.C.
CARRHAE in 63 B.C.
THE GOTHS 3rd century A.D.
THE PERSIANS 3rd century A.D.
BATTLE OF
ADRINNOPAL in 365 A.D.
You see the Romans lost a lot of battles and many of them very heavily indeed. But what made them so powerful was their resiliance and flexability. Every time they lost they would bounce back and learn from the victorious enemy. This is one of the prime things that made them so great. Although having the least loses is good , there are circumstances and causes why those loses occur and not occur at other times. For example a great general on the other side. Greatness consists in winning through despite adversity. Although if you count the armies of Alexander the Great as one unit in your question, we could say his armies. Because Alexander was never defeated. So I suppose you would have to say Alexander's. However if you want to have as units-civilizations and powers-then you'd have to go back to the earliest times. Hope this helps.

2007-01-21 20:24:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Can you expand your question a little bit?
I can name an ancient army or two that had only one loss. Of course, they had zero victories, soooo.....

Won the most while losing the least soldiers?
Won the most number of victories? Conquered the most territory with the least number of battles?

Whatcha curious about?

-Regards

2007-01-21 10:01:18 · answer #3 · answered by dishnivels 4 · 0 0

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