Victory may refer to:*Victory, successful conclusion of a fight or competition.**strategic victory**tactical victory** Pyrrhic victory, a victory at heavy cost to the victorious party...
Debellatio designates the end of a war caused by complete destruction of a hostile state.In some cases debellation ends with a complete dissolution and annexation of the defeated state into the victor's national territory, as happened at the end of the Third Punic War with the defeat of Carthage by Rome in the second century Ann...
Surrender is when soldiers, nations or other combatants stop fighting and become prisoners of war, either as individuals or when ordered to by their commissioned officers.... usually follows a defeat
Defeatism is acceptance of defeat without struggle. In everyday use, defeatism has negative connotation and is often linked to treason and pessimism, or even a hopeless situation such as a Catch-22 ....
A military disaster is when one side in a battle or war is unexpectedly and soundly defeated, and often changes the course of history.A military disaster can range from a strong army losing a major battle against a clearly inferior force, to an army being surprised and defeated by a clearly superior force, to a seemingly evenly matched conf...
