The Red King himself did not know, though certainly the roots of the answer lay in the disastrous invasion and his army's subsequent defeat.
This compelling narrative account tells the complete story of the disastrous invasion of Castro's Cuba.
Finn's armed forces were much reduced, especially after the second disastrous invasion of the Rookery.
At its peak in 1979, before it launched its disastrous invasion of Iran, Iraq was producing 3.5 million barrels a day.
As one of the few stone castles in the country it resisted the disastrous invasion of Mongols in 1241.
By contrast, Napoleon withdrew many soldiers to rebuild his main army after his disastrous invasion of Russia.
Georgia was further weakened by several disastrous invasions by Tamerlane.
It lays blame for the disastrous invasion of Cuba squarely on the agency's own institutional arrogance, ignorance and incompetence.
Mr. Hussein still has not resigned himself to the consequences of his disastrous 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
And there were two disastrous invasions by the Aragonese army in 1452 and 1478.