Describe a real or imagined example of phyrrhic victory

The Battles of Heraclea and Asculum
The battle of Malplaquet
The battle of Bunker Hill
The battle of Borodino
The battle of Chancellorsville

A triumph that is joined by huge misfortunes and leaves the champs fit as a fiddle as though they had lost. Pyrrhus was an old general who, subsequent to vanquishing the Romans, advised the individuals who wished to compliment him, "One all the more such triumph and Pyrrhus is fixed."

Cities with shipyards decline because so many ships had been sent overseas