Could it be the first gulf war? The second? Or the Battle of Termophylae when the Persians fought the Greek?
Remember I said battle...not victory, as in the battle of Termophylae, Sparta lost all of her men, but Persia lots 100s of times more men.
2007-10-09 21:11:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Stalingrad was not lopsided. The 3rd Battle of Kharkov was, however, as the II SS Panzer Corps beat a Red Army 7 times its size.
The Battle of Thermoplye was between approx. 6,000 hoplites vs. 300,000 Persians: 50:1 odds.
Custer's last stand was 3:1 odds.
The 100 day war between Coalition forces and the 4th largest army in the world was lopsided from the military technology point of view.
The Battle of Cannae 216 BC jumps out in my mind. Hannibal and his 'army' taking on the Romans in the Romans homeland. Roughly 50,000 Romans were causalities compared to the 6,000 on Hannibal’s side.
Some of Alexander’s battles, rate high on lopsidedness.
Casualties for Crecy and Agincourt: phenomenally lopsided, according to the accounts of English Medieaval chronicles. Ten thousand French dead at Crecy, a similar number at Agincourt. English losses in each engagement were supposedly not in excess of one hundred dead....!
Pizarro's conquest of Peru. With less than 200 men he defeated tens of thousands of Incan soldiers.
Let's not forget the Brits (we'll be flamed if we do) Rorke's Drift: about 100 Welshmen (and an odd Englishman or two) vs. 4,000 Zulus.
Kiev 1941. 450,000-650,000 Soviet POW's alone. These are unfathhomable casualties (sort of like Vedun scale). Full on catastrophe for the USSR. Funny thing is it may have been a strategic mistake for the Werhrmacht to fight this battle (instead of drive directly on Moscow before winter hit the steppes).
i could go on......
2007-10-10 02:59:41 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well first off the expression is LOP-sided which means unbalanced.
Even though you say you want information with regards a battle you go and list the First Gulf War and Second Gulf War as examples??
And military history is littered with hundreds of such accounts from all wars in many countries:
Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Dien Bien Phu, Indo-China under French Rule.
Battle of Dunkirk, WW2.
The Battle of Verdun, WW1.
Battle for Leningrad, WW2.
Battle of Stalingrad, WW2.
Battle of Midway, WW2. Battle of the Ardennes, WW2.
I list the above as just a few examples.
2007-10-09 22:37:08 · answer #2 · answered by conranger1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rourke's Drift was a British victory...not the other way around. learn your history.
Thermopylae was a real lopsided battle, but if you are only counting numbers...as for a lopsided battle AND victory, try the battle of Agincourt between the Brits and the French.
Runner up would be the Battle of Midway, where the nuimbers of combatants were lopsided in the favor of the Imperial Navy, and we all know who won THAT one !
2007-10-09 21:51:51 · answer #3 · answered by commanderbuck383 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The first Gulf War followed by the Second.
2007-10-09 23:52:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Major 20th century recorded battle. Maranas Turkey shoot. Actually call the Battle of the Philippine sea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Philippine_Sea
Made Midway seem a close battle..and it was. only a few minutes saved the Americans esp with the loss of the Yorktown.
2007-10-10 00:33:32 · answer #5 · answered by Bob D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Battle of Saragarhi
21 soldiers of the the Sikh Regiment stood against 10,000 Afghans
2007-10-09 22:38:56 · answer #6 · answered by Krazny Oktybr 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-21 13:13:51 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roukes Drift in Africa .....where the british took on the Zulu nation the battle at Roukes was an absolute victory for the Zulu's albeit that the british only had approx 100 men where as the Zulu's had several thousand ....the British were totally wiped out .....this battle was the setting for the 60's hollywood movie Zulu
2007-10-09 21:24:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
Shermans march to the sea, from Atlanta to Savannah
2007-10-10 01:10:51 · answer #9 · answered by csn0331 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋