However, other scholars hold that the war constituted a British victory and an American defeat.

This 1942 clash off Guadalcanal was a dolorous American defeat.

In the heaviest single American defeat of the war, 5,400 Americans are captured along with ships, munitions, and food supplies.

All his predictions about American defeat have proved false.

The humbling American defeat in Vietnam suggests two conflicting courses of action.

"They may not be rooting for an American defeat, but most are certainly antiwar and anti-Bush."

But anyone who thinks an American defeat in Iraq will bring a merciful end to this conflict is deluded.

He made delay equal to an American defeat.

The actual site of this little known American defeat is unknown.

The fact of American defeat is obvious, and its implications will be unfolding for decades.