Sun Quan eventually succeeded in escaping but his forces sustained very heavy losses.

The sultan's forces sustained roughly 500 casualties, while only one British sailor was injured.

By the start of 1943 Germany's armored forces had sustained heavy casualties.

The Soviet forces sustained heavy casualties, with 6 men out of 39 killed and 28 injured.

Israeli forces used no artillery, and despite estimates predicting dozens of casualties, sustained just four.

However, the British force sustained most of its casualties in this phase.

Casualties were heavy on both sides, although Iraqi forces sustained substantially more dead and captured than the allied forces.

Their forces are fresh and would help compensate for the losses our forces have sustained.

The defensive forces sustained 20,000 casualties, and about 1,300 weapons were captured by the Germans.

In real life such events were rare, usually happening when the victim's forces could sustain their leader through reintegration.