Some officers were pleased to be wrong to have feared military disaster.
It would be a political and military disaster to allow them to get away with this.
It was one of the worst military disasters in Roman history.
It proved to be a military disaster, and Russia was eventually defeated.
This was one of the greatest military disasters in history.
As a consequence, 1597 was marked by a series of military disasters.
And it had led to the worst military disaster in American history.
Many on the General Staff thought it would be a military disaster at that time of year.
It was not until the evening of the 15th that he heard about the military disaster.
Yet Washington's last involvement there, a decade ago, rapidly turned into a military and political disaster.