I don't recall the Defense Department ever estimating casualties prior to the war, and there are obvious reasons why that may be inadvisable. |
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The company suffered a large number of casualties from the intense hostile fire while fighting its way out of the ambush. |
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There is no compromise with such an enemy, no capitulation to him, no way to avoid casualties, no easy way out. |
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The present offensive is unprecedented in its speed and daring and in the lightness of casualties. |
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It ripped up trees and downed electricity lines, but no casualties were reported. |
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In the medical evacuation role, the aircraft can carry 24 casualties on litters and four medical attendants. |
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There is often both argy-bargy and trickiness in discussions, and truth, justice and common sense are often casualties. |
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Luckily the prisoners where all in lockdown at the moment so they could keep the casualties down to a minimum. |
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Hospitals, struggling to care for casualties, have been hit by looters stealing equipment, medicines and even beds. |
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A bomb or grenade also exploded on the road during the shooting, but caused no casualties. |
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England's busiest mountain rescue team had a frantic weekend with members rushing up hillsides in soaring temperatures to tend casualties. |
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The war plan outlines a military offensive that would lead to thousands, if not tens of thousands of casualties. |
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This week, however, the fighting was particularly sanguinary, with reported casualties being suffered on both sides. |
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He was involved in treating the 14 casualties from a nail bomb attack, in which two people died. |
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A comparatively low level of casualties can demoralize both individual military units and the entire army. |
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No commander wants to see his men die in combat but knows that casualties are a part of war. |
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During the Bristol mange epidemic, we found that casualties had their territory invaded by new foxes within days. |
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Non-battle casualties exceeded 7,000, most of whom suffered from scrub typhus or an undiagnosed fever. |
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This explains the seeming paradox of why we have a lower acceptance of combat casualties with a volunteer military than we had with a draft Army. |
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It is not known if the helicopter was shot down or suffered mechanical problems, or if there were casualties. |
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The Canadians had been blooded in a failed raid further up the coast at Dieppe in 1942, which cost 3,000 casualties. |
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The reasons for the few battle fatigue casualties included the sporadic nature of fighting and our air and artillery superiority. |
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The Gurkha regiments suffered tens of thousands of casualties on farflung British battlefronts in both world wars. |
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One of the saddest casualties of that process was the effective abolition of the Church's ancient observances of fasting and abstinence. |
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The fighting will be ferocious and unyielding, the casualties enormous, the narrow alleyways are already booby-trapped. |
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When I asked them what was going on, they told me they had four casualties from that booby trap, and two were dead and two were wounded. |
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They stood firm and beat him off, inflicting another 12,000 casualties on Frederick's army. |
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But I doubt if even the most toadyish East European regime would be willing to accept serious casualties. |
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These checkpoints were beefed up following a number of casualties, wounds and death to U.S. forces. |
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One of the ships destroyed was loaded with mustard gas, producing the only battlefield chemical casualties of the war. |
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Virtually everyone now belts up as a matter of routine, and road casualties have been slashed as a result. |
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As the bloodiest century in human history drew to a close, historians began to total up the casualties. |
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The airport will not be closed to normal passenger traffic, and it is expected that the receiving area for the casualties will be contained. |
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There are going to be very high casualties and you need tremendous sustainment both in terms of ammunition and reserves of manpower. |
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Carrying out the original aim of a quick war with minimal civilian casualties would require taking chances that officers here now deem imprudent. |
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The military plan has been put together mindful of our determination to do all we humanly can to avoid civilian casualties. |
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She would have been in her 30s and was effectively on the shelf because of casualties in the first world war. |
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Before being relived by the 94th Infantry later that day, the 5th Ranger Battalion was shelled one more time with some casualties taken. |
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But any homely illusions were quickly dispelled by Turkish shrapnel and stubborn shellfire, resulting in heavy casualties. |
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As we said, the American soldier is qualified to perform cinematic roles only and the enemy will lose his heaviest casualties in these traps. |
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We celebrate Veterans Day for all of the casualties and the ones that are missing in action. |
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Our only casualties from the bivouac were a slightly melted toe on my left plastic boot shell and Curt's taste for York peppermint patties. |
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During the conflict, frostbite, sun-burn, and other high-altitude sicknesses caused large numbers of casualties. |
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There was no immediate word on casualties after US warplanes and artillery bombarded the city. |
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The calculation of casualties presents military historians with real problems. |
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For one thing, it's being held at the Gladstone, that ragged, Romanesque marvel on Queen West, home to bohos and assorted karaoke casualties. |
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It would be no surprise to see others follow with similarly drastic measures if we are to avoid some heavy casualties. |
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Treating seriously injured casualties in extreme cold weather conditions is very difficult. |
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The Russian hostage situation has been resolved bloodily, but the number of casualties is unknown so far. |
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The scheme aims to make it harder for motorcyclists to break speed limits, in order to reduce casualties. |
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He had apparently been bloviating about civilian casualties caused by military actions. |
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No war was ever fought without casualties and no military operation was ever mounted without self-inflicted tactical errors. |
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Also, an unconfirmed number of casualties in Eastern Africa have been reported. |
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Low-intensity warfare continues and soldiers continue to suffer casualties from uncoordinated attacks in the country. |
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The soft underbelly of the country's power is its reluctance to take casualties and to pay the costs of rebuilding societies that it invades. |
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An ambulance stood by during the fire fighting operation in case there were any casualties but was not needed. |
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The military health system is seriously undermanned and underfinanced for the number of casualties coming home. |
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He was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery in treating casualties under fire in the desert. |
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Indeed, at the first indication of American casualties, political risk skyrockets. |
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Improved road design could mean fewer squashed hedgehogs and other mammal casualties, according to experts. |
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Many of the injured headed for local hospitals which quickly became overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of casualties. |
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Despite the drop in fatal incidents, the number of non-serious casualties has increased to the highest level in five years. |
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There are no official estimates of deaths in Beijing, but most observers believe that casualties numbered in the hundreds. |
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When the wasp attacks the larval butterfly, it drives the ants to attack each other, turning them into incidental casualties. |
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These forces, consisting mostly of state militiamen, volunteers, and conscripts, endured heavy casualties. |
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The revolt had ended with two kinds of casualties, the burnouts and the assimilated. |
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What should specifically targeting non-military targets to maximize civilian casualties be called? |
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But the single biggest cause of snowmobiling casualties are inanimate objects. |
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There is a distinction being made between hostile and non-hostile casualties with the latter going under-reported. |
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Sure we have taken some casualties, but the people we are fighting are criminals, terrorists, and punks and we are cleaning their clock. |
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Police said there were three casualties, but none had suffered anything more than minor injuries. |
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Hopefully this cocoon of self-deception will be among the early casualties of the campaign. |
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She had personally verified about 2,000 casualties through painstaking casework, although she knew these were just the tip of the iceberg. |
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He said casualties arrived mainly by casevac helicopters, usually after initial treatment at a field hospital. |
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Faculty travel budgets and money for new faculty appointments are often early casualties. |
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Japanese troops poured into the wartime capital city of Nanjing on 13 December 1937, after suffering heavy casualties in Shanghai. |
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Major charities wanted to know how children, often the worst casualties of poverty, saw their own situations. |
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This will be an ugly, vicious war with high casualties on both sides and lots of dead civilians. |
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Kingussie now meet the winners of the Lochcarron versus Skye tie which was one of the day's casualties. |
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Full details are not yet available and estimates vary as to the number of civilian casualties. |
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Trench warfare also led to stalemates that triggered even more casualties from vermin and disease. |
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The only casualties were the rats Molly often kills in her sorties, now caught on video. |
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The first casualties of this disastrous policy have been Asian voters, particularly women. |
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A prize portfolio could mean a head start in the race, but those overlooked or given poisoned chalices would be early casualties. |
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Initial reports described numerous casualties because witnesses initially mistook the headless figures for people. |
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To work for closer integration of environmental concerns into fisheries management including a reduction in small cetacean casualties. |
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Such actions will yield large civilian casualties, displaced populations, and refugee flows. |
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So far, it has remained a purely veterinary war and the only casualties are animals. |
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In a separate incident, they took out a Stryker transport vehicle, but did not cause any casualties. |
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Insects and the diseases they carry have always accounted for too many casualties during wartime. |
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They have suffered many casualties, and their jails are full to the brim with captives. |
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Two of the casualties became badly trapped and fire fighters had to use special cutting equipment to free the injured. |
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One of the first casualties of the illiberal centralization of power characteristic of democracy has been the loss of local autonomy. |
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They offered their services and trained as stretcher-bearers to support the expected medical casualties. |
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Police resorted to firing and one of the casualties was killed in police firing. 15 persons have been arrested. |
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What are our total casualty figures and how many more casualties are we willing to endure? |
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Special security forces crushed the uprisings, leaving at least a thousand casualties. |
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Precision comes from being able to strike the desired target while avoiding incidental casualties or unwanted damage. |
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The difficulty in tracking casualties is that the injured, wounded, and sick may be treated in any number of facilities. |
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You probably see passing references to the casualties, like daily box scores-just as brief and much more brutal. |
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The early casualties of this phenomenon were mostly isolated populations like the dodo of Mauritius and the Steller's sea cow. |
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We have had some accidental deaths, but no direct no casualties from direct fighting. |
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Civilian casualties are unfortunate and sometimes an unpreventable by-product of war. |
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There are also some questions over the validity of the Lancet study in the case of measuring casualties in Iraq. |
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When you compare it to previous wars, the Second World War, the Vietnam War, a jillion other wars, civilian casualties were very low. |
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A military euphemism for unplanned casualties, such as UN officials or Afghan refugees. |
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In this operation I would be acutely aware of the need to minimise civilian casualties. |
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The main objective of air defense is to prevent casualties and losses among friendly forces from disabling air strikes. |
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One estimate from the time puts the English casualties at five hundred whilst the Welsh suffered no losses. |
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The spokesman said that to his knowledge no resistance had been put up to the show of strength and no casualties had resulted. |
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The casualties came as police tried to control rioting mobs who rampaged through the city, burning and looting shops and stoning vehicles. |
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In reality these civilians are no less casualties of war than if they were killed on the day the bombing began. |
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There were regular casualties to the foxes which ranged over the rough hills. |
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There also appears to be a different attitude to civilian casualties within today's uncertain administration. |
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The city has been affected by after effects of the quake, with over 200 casualties reported by police and hospital sources. |
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The Communist troops were already moving out when their rearguard was attacked by Guomindang troops and defeated with heavy casualties. |
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On occasion, severe frosts, biting easterly winds and snowfall can result in winter casualties. |
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I'm glad that there were no casualties and eventually I managed to reboard the boat. |
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A third of the sappers and gunners were casualties, and nearly all the mules were dead or streaming with blood. |
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An air strike was called off because a lawyer at US Central Command was concerned about the risk of disproportionate civilian casualties. |
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That night, the Battalion moved forward and, after taking a few casualties, reconsolidated their line. |
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The motorway was closed as rescuers battled to free casualties from the twisted wreckage of the coach. |
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The goal of this principle is the prevention of broad indiscriminate attacks without regard to civilian casualties and property. |
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The Third Artillery and the Montana regiment suffered moderate casualties, but they managed to take the hill. |
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Duration of combat and numbers of casualties aren't yardsticks for measuring victory or failure. |
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Thirty-four thousand troops landed that day, but at a high cost, for over 2,500 became casualties. |
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No casualties were reported and the chemical alert was eventually rescinded. |
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Barney and Skinny's boards were only two of many equipment casualties on Wednesday morning. |
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Fortunately, as the hours of live coverage dragged on through the weekend, this was a crisis with few casualties. |
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One of the authors of the report said that by cataloguing the deaths his team hoped to quantify the casualties that were missed or ignored in official reports. |
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However, on August 26th, a British rearguard guarding the retreat of the bulk of the BEF did sustain 8,000 casualties at the Battle of Le Chateau. |
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The treatment and evacuation of simulated casualties occurs without notice to the student chain of command, and often requires evacuation by use of the jungle penetrator. |
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Double zipper openings allow easy entry and exit of casualties. |
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It is very important in the course of an operation to minimize destruction of non-military installations and to prevent casualties among civilians. |
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One could almost forget the illegality, the profiteering, the recklessness, and the endless casualties. |
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Spokesmen who have defended the bombing have said that the civilian casualties are a regrettable but unavoidable side-effect of the attacks on military targets. |
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The first two casualties of the exercise were actually two of the dogs, and we thought one had been bitten by a snake, but it was actually multiple bull ants. |
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The Allied high command anticipated that a successful landing would cost 10,000 dead and perhaps 30,000 wounded, but were steeling themselves for much heavier casualties. |
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And If Tygart was the crusading general, Hamilton, the cyclist to his left, was one of the casualties. |
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There are casualties on all sides, but three extremists manage to survive. |
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He said there were unconfirmed reports of casualties in other islands. |
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But IBC is also a fair bit more inclusive in its definition of war casualties. |
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In any case, that the American demo teams failed at Omaha because of heavy casualties is a fact. |
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Her job included sending telegrams about casualties to next of kin. |
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The Prussians suffered over 4,400 casualties, which, allowing for their superiority in artillery, still demonstrates the effectiveness of the French chassepot. |
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No matter how carefully drivers stay on alert against unexpected pedestrians rushing out in front of them, disasters will still occur and there are always casualties. |
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Enemy casualties, I think, are significantly higher than I expected. |
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The first hurdle to be overcome was to avoid major civilian casualties. |
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It will also be fitted with oxygen equipment and will also carry portable oxygen equipment so that casualties can be treated before they get to the ambulance. |
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If sickness or some of those casualties which are perpetually incident to an active and laborious life, be superadded to these burthens, the distress is yet greater. |
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The pressure in the operating room in Iraq was immense, but combat casualties were not all Dixon faced. |
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The main casualties are tree species characteristic of old-growth forests. |
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Maybe the way to do it is to stop using Remembrance Day to memorialize brave and virtuous soldiers and instead begin focusing on civilian casualties. |
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The warriors suffered no discernible casualties and managed to take up positions on a small elevation only a few hundred yards to the south. |
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That frontal assaults sometimes succeeded despite enormous casualties speaks more of soldierly courage and fortitude than any general's brilliance. |
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The boys at the battalion aid station can't handle the casualties. |
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But Sydney harbour, in New South Wales, was attacked by midget submarines and further north Newcastle was shelled by their bigger brethren, although with few casualties. |
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The weather is unpredictable, with violent gales and storms having resulted in countless shipping casualties over the years, continuing right up to the present. |
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Both sides suffered many casualties during their engagement. |
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The hotels were hit with rocket fire, causing three civilian casualties. |
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While some WWII casualties have been salvaged, many of the wrecks that litter the unique Rock Island eco-system are full of marine life and hoary artefacts. |
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Since 1775, weapons have become more lethal, and with increased lethality has come an increase in both the number of casualties and the severity of wounds. |
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But the funny thing is, these citified casualties just won't stay dead. |
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And if those consequences result in exponentially higher Brotherhood casualties than army casualties, then so be it. |
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I can tell you that we're doing our absolute level best to ensure that the number of casualties from military activities will be as low as humanly possible. |
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The text and imagery includes working models of living spaces that should give casualties of minimalism the confidence to decorate with more rather than less. |
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They are basically trading casualties one-for-one with the regime loyalists which, as any brass hat will tell you, ain't no way to win at counter-insurgency. |
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Every possible measure to minimize coalition casualties was taken. |
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The Walking Dead piled up an impressive body count in 2014, with Lizzie, Hershel, and Beth among its major casualties. |
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And now that the war has started, our principal objective is to make sure that it ends at the soonest possible time with the minimum of casualties. |
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Is the Libyan war claiming casualties as far away as the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, and the Gulf of Aden? |
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The other casualties were four U.N. staffers from Britain, Germany, Mongolia and the United States, and three Mongolians, including a National Assembly member. |
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Even a bluffing superpower can be forced to ante up ... or perhaps fold as casualties mount and treasury accounts go bust. |
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Anyway, given the casualties on all sides, if a bit of roguery here and there left some innocent dead around, well that's the way wars are fought. |
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He commanded the brigade in the 2008 war with Russia that suffered the most casualties and he himself was shot in the calf. |
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Among the casualties with the most dangerous implications for their future is education. |
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Like Cohen, many of these casualties were white Democrats from below the Mason-Dixon Line. |
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The bandits attack, a bloodbath ensues, and casualties are heavy. |
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On Tuesday morning rebels claimed over 100 casualties, some of them reportedly were Chechen recruits. |
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A U.S. warplane dropped two bombs on a suspected insurgent command center near Ramadi on Wednesday, the AP said, adding that it was not known whether casualties resulted. |
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There are too many opportunities for friendly fire, for civilian casualties, for insurgent ambushes. |
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Children account for a large proportion of casualties because they represent 39 per cent of the overall population in the eight hardest-hit countries. |
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Both casualties were triaged and admitted to the HDU for overnight care. |
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But she added that there were extra opportunities to invest in more community support officers, longer police station opening times and extra work to reduce road casualties. |
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In spite of the dangerous nature of the evacuation, Clair said there had been no injuries or casualties. |
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And the witness accounts and medical evidence show they went out of their way to maximise casualties by packing ball bearings and shrapnel into the bombs. |
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At Zhoushan the naval commander, in his barrage covering the landing, used round shot instead of grape or canister, in order to minimize Chinese casualties. |
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The other bombings included a blast near a cinema near the Giza pyramids but there were no reports of casualties. |
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But there is another curiosity about the microscopic attention that is paid to civilian casualties. |
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Ship casualties would have been higher if bombs had burst on impact, and British prospects would have been poor if troopships rather than warships had been lost. |
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Still no enemies were being engaged in running fire fights, or surrendering, and all the time casualties were mounting through sustained enemy sniper fire. |
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For a hundred years of war, culminating in the nuclear age, military technology was designed and deployed to inflict casualties on an ever-growing scale. |
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When used outside of major urban areas, they minimize the risk of civilian casualties and requirements for granular intelligence. |
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The new air ambulance and base will chop crucial minutes off the usual time it would take the Darlington based helicopter to reach Cumbrian casualties. |
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In other words, significant progress might well be made, but fairly large numbers of troops might still be present, with the attendant casualties and costs. |
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This will be a very hard, attritional war, and there will be casualties. |
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Their value to the fleet was highlighted during the invasion of Okinawa, when kamikaze attacks upon the Fifth Fleet created high numbers of casualties among the forces afloat. |
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The platoon tracks could occasionally kick out four sandbags tied together as casualties that the first sergeant could take back to the battalion aid station. |
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We have an ethical duty to avoid civilian casualties wherever possible. |
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The Australians suffered 200 casualties in that attack and suffered 27 killed and 290 wounded. |
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The course of his education was like that of others, such as put him little in the way of extraordinary casualties. |
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As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences. |
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Firedamp explosions continued, often setting off coal dust explosions, so casualties grew during the entire 19th century. |
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By 210, Severus' campaigning had made significant gains, despite Caledonian guerrilla tactics and purportedly heavy Roman casualties. |
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The constant barrage of attacks and the increase of expansion caused casualties. |
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In areas with more conflict there were larger medical facilities as they saw more casualties. |
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Figures for casualties during this period are unreliable, but some attempt has been made to provide rough estimates. |
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He inflicted 25,000 casualties on a numerically superior enemy army while sustaining fewer than 7,000 in his own force. |
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Logistical difficulties meant that French casualties could not be replaced, unlike Russian ones. |
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For just 2,000 French casualties, Napoleon had managed to capture a total of 60,000 Austrian soldiers through his army's rapid marching. |
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At the twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt, fought on 14 October, the French convincingly defeated the Prussians and inflicted heavy casualties. |
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This was by far the largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars and cost more than 90,000 casualties in total. |
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Because of the enemy's strong defensive preparations, and the darkness, with the resulting confusion, the attack failed with 25 casualties. |
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But failure, due in part to a lack of siege guns, forced him into a headlong retreat with the loss of over 2,000 casualties. |
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He mistook the movement of casualties to the rear for the beginnings of a retreat, and sought to exploit it. |
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The French cavalry attacked the British infantry squares many times, each at heavy cost to the French but with few British casualties. |
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Estimates for the total number of casualties in the war vary, because many deaths went unrecorded. |
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Wreaths with messages of sympathy for the casualties were displayed on the coffins. |
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Civilian casualties on London throughout the Blitz amounted to 28,556 killed, and 25,578 wounded. |
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After many casualties in the army due to the terrain and the barbarians' ambushes, Severus went himself to the field. |
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There were about thirty casualties on each side, and the British took 600 French prisoners whom were subsequently sent to England. |
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At the Battle of Monte Cassino in early 1944, the 2nd Battalion suffered heavy casualties in tough fighting. |
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They suffered heavy casualties and David was wounded in the face by two arrows before being captured. |
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Because they served in the front ranks, the gentlemen suffered higher proportional casualties than the common clansman. |
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Although the marshy terrain minimized casualties, the morale of the Jacobites began to suffer. |
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Dejean's lost 14 and had 68 wounded, with this unit's left wing taking a disproportionately higher number of casualties. |
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Commanders on both sides failed to develop tactics for breaching entrenched positions without heavy casualties. |
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German casualties between March and April 1918 were 270,000, including many highly trained storm troopers. |
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Artillery was responsible for the largest number of casualties and consumed vast quantities of explosives. |
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Few war casualties were caused by gas, as effective countermeasures to gas attacks were quickly created, such as gas masks. |
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Fickle winds and inexperience led to more British casualties from the gas than German. |
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The French would go on the defensive for the following months to avoid high casualties and to restore confidence in the French High Command. |
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Many were casualties of Allied bombing, as they received poor air raid protection. |
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The raids on Guernica and Madrid caused many civilian casualties and a wave of protests in the democracies. |
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The Ju 87 units, which had suffered heavy casualties, were only to be used under favourable circumstances. |
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Proponents of this tactic claimed interceptions in large numbers caused greater enemy losses while reducing their own casualties. |
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In this role, the Blenheims again proved to be too slow and vulnerable against Luftwaffe fighters, and they took constant casualties. |
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As a result of these casualties, Luftflotte 5 did not appear in strength again in the campaign. |
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They damaged communications of the Japanese in northern Burma, cutting the railway for possibly two weeks but they suffered heavy casualties. |
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Although battle casualties were approximately equal, the result was a heavy Japanese defeat. |
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There was severe fighting until the end of the month, in which the Japanese suffered heavy casualties. |
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Concerned about inflicting casualties on their own troops, many bombers delayed their attacks too long and failed to hit the beach defences. |
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In the Battle of Merville Gun Battery, Allied forces disabled the guns with plastic explosives at a cost of 75 casualties. |
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By the end of the battle, the Rangers casualties were 135 dead and wounded, while German casualties were 50 killed and 40 captured. |
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The Rape of Nanking alone had seen three hundred thousand casualties. |
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Allied casualties on the first day were at least 10,000, with 4,414 confirmed dead. |
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Having taken the airfield with a dozen casualties, the remainder of the battalion flew in by helicopter. |
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British casualties stood at 16 dead and 96 wounded, while French casualties were 10 dead and 33 wounded. |
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Several casualties that were listed as civilians were later claimed by the IRA as their members. |
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Several European countries set their own records, particularly the UK, who suffered 108 casualties. |
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The reports included many references to other incidents involving civilian casualties like the Kunduz airstrike and Nangar Khel incident. |
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Estimates on the number of casualties during the invasion in Iraq vary widely. |
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Estimates on civilian casualties are more variable than those for military personnel. |
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In September 1854, an Allied landing force was beaten back with heavy casualties, and the Allies withdrew. |
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France, which had sent far more soldiers to the war than Britain had, and suffered far more casualties, wanted the war to end, as did Austria. |
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The resulting series of firefights lasted several hours, after which the RUF withdrew, having suffered 30 casualties. |
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This action, nearly seven months before the start of the Bosnian War, caused the first casualties of the Yugoslav Wars in Bosnia. |
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In the region of Neretva river, of 6,717 casualties, 54 percent were Bosniaks, 24 percent Serbs and 21 percent Croats. |
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Yugoslavia claimed that NATO attacks caused between 1,200 and 5,700 civilian casualties. |
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Hydra worked with Hecla and Herald, to take casualties from Uganda to Montevideo, Uruguay, where a fleet of Uruguayan ambulances would meet them. |
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The explosion caused all the casualties and substantial damage to the rest of the plant. |
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In November 1942, Grant and Reeve moved to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, to study road traffic and industrial casualties. |
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If it had not been preceded by the nee-naw of fire engines it meant that no warning had been given. There would be casualties. |
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Cassius Dio records that the Caledonians inflicted 50,000 Roman casualties due to attrition and unconventional tactics such as guerrilla warfare. |
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Battle casualties were estimated by Tacitus to be about 10,000 on the Caledonian side and 360 on the Roman side. |
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Edward's men began to attack the schiltrons, which were still able to inflict heavy casualties on the English cavalry. |
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One of the Scottish casualties was Carrick's close ally James, Earl of Douglas. |
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Much of the armour of the Scottish casualties was sold on the field, and 350 suits of armour were taken to Nottingham Castle. |
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William Knight sent the news from Lille to Rome on 20 September, claiming 12,000 Scots had died with fewer than 500 English casualties. |
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The two armies engaged at Guilford Courthouse on March 15, and, though Greene was beaten, Cornwallis' army had suffered irreplaceable casualties. |
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Despite inflicting a tactical defeat on Greene's army, the casualties suffered by the British were such that they withdrew to Charleston. |
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British casualties had mounted to over 40,000 by 3 December, with German losses somewhat less. |
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The regiment deployed to Iraq in 2006, where it suffered two casualties Lieutenant Richard Palmer and Corporal Gordon Pritchard. |
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By Tuesday, the same page no longer showed a total for nonmortal casualties. |
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Although Orderic Vitalis's figures are highly exaggerated, his ratio of one in four casualties may be accurate. |
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The first casualties were soon suffered due to training accidents with grenades. |
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In the face of determined German resistance and flanking machine gun fire, the 13th Welsh suffered many casualties and their attack stalled. |
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The 10th SWB captured the eastern stretches of the wood and inflicted many casualties on the Germans. |
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The division had suffered 3,993 casualties during the six days it had fought on the Somme, with over 600 men killed. |
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Due to the casualties taken, elements of the 16th Welsh and 10th SWB were moved forward to reinforce the newly gained position. |
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The division received replacements for casualties, disbanded the sniper company and engaged in rifle training. |
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Divisional casualties amounted to around 800, and at least 100 prisoners were taken along with the capture of 15 machine guns. |
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Elements of the 10th SWB had come under heavy German machine gun fire and suffered numerous casualties. |
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During this action, the division suffered 1,290 casualties and took 380 prisoners. |
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The attack inflicted at least 225 casualties and resulted in the capture of 212 prisoners, a battery of artillery pieces and mortars. |
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By 18 November, the First Battle of Ypres had also ended in failure, at a cost of 160,000 German casualties. |
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There was much trench mortaring, mining and raiding by both sides and from January to May, the Second Army had 20,000 casualties. |
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The 4th Army had held on to the Gheluvelt Plateau in August but its casualties worsened the German manpower shortage. |
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North of the covert near Polygon Wood, deep mud smothered German shells before they exploded but they still caused many casualties. |
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The German 195th Division at Passchendaele suffered 3,325 casualties from 9 to 12 October and had to be relieved by the 238th Division. |
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The Third Battle of Ypres pinned the German army to Flanders and caused unsustainable casualties. |
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In 1959, Cyril Falls estimated 240,000 British, 8,525 French and 260,000 German casualties. |
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Sheffield wrote in 2002, that Richard Holmes's guess of 260,000 casualties on each side, seemed about right. |
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In the case of the United Kingdom only casualties before 16 August 1917 are commemorated on the memorial. |
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The raid was relatively light with no casualties reported to the ARP controllers. |
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When Mustafa Pasha sent an expeditionary force under the command of Uthman Pasha, it was defeated with great casualties. |
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This plan proceeded successfully, causing the Yemenis over 200 casualties, most from thirst. |
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In addition, many reactors are equipped with a dome of concrete to protect the reactor against both internal casualties and external impacts. |
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In this pitched battle, the British Royal Navy engaged the Imperial German Navy, leading to heavy casualties and losses of ships on both sides. |
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Most casualties during tropical cyclones occur as the result of storm surges. |
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