On 21 March 1918, the same Battalion was "practically annihilated" during the German Spring Offensive breakthrough at St. Emilie in France.
Broadly, the facts were that the Russian army, outmanoeuvered, had been practically annihilated.
Whatever the genius of man has produced that is beautiful and good and holy, all of this can be practically annihilated.
Hastening to relieve the city, al-Djarrah was defeated and killed, and his army practically annihilated in a battle outside the city on 9 December 730.
At the disastrous Slim River battle, in which two Indian brigades were practically annihilated, the Japanese used surprise and tanks to devastating effect in a risky night attack.
Furthermore, reports contend that when the remaining units of the division withdrew across the Naktong River just north of Waegwan, they sustained tremendous casualties and were practically annihilated.
The government army was practically annihilated, 941 men were killed, including Barbosa and his second in command, and 2,402 wounded.
There were sixty-two casualties out of eighty among the Scottish Horse, and the Yorkshires were practically annihilated.
At about 1650, the Iroquois declared war on the Attawandaron; by 1653, the people were practically annihilated, and their villages were wiped out, including Kandoucho.
Radioactive Lake Has Been Practically Annihilated (in Russian)