For 10 points, give the common feature of the above battles also shared by Aspern-Essling, Sedan, Agincourt, Trafalgar, and Dien Bien Phu, which were lost by forces of a certain European country.
A disputed example of these is the Battle of Corunna, because the supposed "winners" were withdrawing anyway and merely avoided destruction at the cost of General Moore's life. Clear examples of this type of event were the Battle of Quiberon Bay, the fall of Metz, and the Battle of Spicheren, and the Glorious First of June was a tactical one, though not a strategic one. Other examples occurred at BailÃ©n, Neerwinden, Salamanca, and Puebla, and a series of these events led to the Treaty of Frankfurt. These also happened at CrÃ©cy, at Aboukir Bay on the Nile, and on the Plains of Abraham. For 10 points, give the common feature of the above battles also shared by Aspern-Essling, Sedan, Agincourt, Trafalgar, and Dien Bien Phu, which were lost by forces of a certain European country.
A disputed example of these is the Battle of Corunna, because the supposed "winners" were withdrawing anyway and merely avoided destruction at the cost of General Moore's life.
French military defeats  [accept equivalents such as "France lost", etc]