His forces suffered massive casualties, many times the toll inflicted on the French.
The massive casualties occurred even though the government had evacuated nearly 800,000 people ahead of the typhoon.
The efforts of Sir Robert Jones and the massive casualties of World War I led to the founding of many orthopedic training centres in the early 20th century.
History teaches that Americans are prepared to accept and inflict massive casualties in pursuit of victory (witness the campaign against Japan in the second world war).
Susanna John, whose home adjoins the evacuated building, said she had heard tales from outsiders claiming to have seen the crash, and accounts of massive casualties and mayhem.
The decision to drop the bomb was founded on the conviction that a blockade and invasion of Japan would cause massive casualties.
We think of units sustaining massive casualties, men cut down crossing the beach or taking a hill or securing the bridge.
That, he says, is because the Shias show little interest in conquering the Sunni areas, and because neither side has the aircraft, heavy artillery or armour to reduce cities to rubble and so inflict truly massive casualties.
But the massive casualties caused by a handful of suicide-bombs, albeit outside Baghdad, shows how hard it will be to bring down the overall figure of violent deaths.
At biotech labs across the United States and around the world, research scientists making medicines that advance human well-being are also capable of making pathogens, like anthrax, that can produce massive casualties.
