Soult, on the basis of higher allied casualties, also claimed "a signal victory".
Comparing the most cost-effective hospital A, with the dominated hospitals B and C, hospital A has consistently higher allied health costs, and lower imaging, pathology, and pharmacy costs.
Rather than dispersing into small fighting groups and taking advantage of the natural shelter provided by the rocky terrain, they constructed fortifications clearly visible to high-flying allied reconnaissance aircraft.
The spirit of insurrection that inspired the Fronde (a period of civil unrest between 1648 and 1653, in which the high aristocracy allied themselves with the judicial bodies known as parlements in an attempt to reassert their independence of the centralizing monarchy) is clearly marked in the writing of the time, not least in Corneille's tragedies.
Yet the cost was high: the allied casualty figures were approximately double that of the enemy (sources vary), leading Marlborough to admit – "The French have defended themselves better in this action than in any battle I've seen".
The deliberations about where to draw the line, going on at the highest levels of allied nations and among senior officials across the Obama administration, show how an intervention to stop a potential massacre is evolving into a much more complex, and perhaps open-ended, role in policing the Libyan chaos.
In professional terms, doctors knew modes of transmission and type of the vaccine correctly at the highest rate, and allied health workers knew these correctly at the lowest rate.
But the new focus will inevitably draw the troops into urban fighting, with its higher risks of allied and Iraqi civilian casualties.
This assessment isn't entirely unjust, especially to anyone who has witnessed thrills of the high-energy footworking allied to Chicago's juke scene or any of the myriad custom dances thrown up by Jamaican dancehall.
The raids continued to the end of the war owing to fears in the allied high command that the Germans might regain air superiority with the aid of new devices such as ground-to-air missiles (one of which, the Waterfall, was at an advanced stage of development) and jet fighters (the Me 262 was in action well before the end of the war).
