Can anyone think of a more one-sided Defensive Victory in Historical Warfare than the War of the Greeks and Persians?

[SeekerOfTruth007]

As far as I know, this is the biggest one-sided ass-kicking in the history of both land and naval warfare.

the Greeks won the naval war at least ten to one, and stopped and sank over 600 persian warships.

The Greeks won the war on land at least 100 to one and supposedly killed over 1 million persian swordmen in the war.

the Greeks had early pikemen, better metallurgy, archers, scorpion tail and otherh ballista weapons, catapults, formation warfare, and fortress warfare. Tjhe persians had none of those things. They thouoght that if they just armed every man, woman, and child in their nation and all-in attacked from half-way across the world, that nobody could stop that big of an army. Tjhe Greeks were seasoned veterans at formation and fortress warfare, and they slaughtered the Persian attackers.

As far as I'm concerned, this is the most one-sided defensive victory in the known history of warfare.

[CuriousHubby]

The battle of the ship Bismarck! Probably spelled it wrong

Ship vs airplanes!

[SeekerOfTruth007]

The only reason the British won that is because of an extremely lucky and nearly miraculous topedo strike to the rudder of the Bismarck. Even then, it took several hours to wear the german vessel down and disable all of its weapons, and the hull was totally invincible and unsinkable from the outside. The Germans sank their own ship from the inside out to prevent the British from capturing it and retrofitting it for their own use.

[CuriousHubby]

Nothing lucky about that strike! It was a one sided battle that ended in complete defeat and it might have ended in a capture