User blog comment:Tesla Man/Rise of the TDBU: Alexander the Great versus Xerxes/@comment-2213439-20120318235116/@comment-2006360-20120319100402

Xerxes' didn't lose most of his men. With around 300,000 soldiers on the first day, he only lost around 20,000. Either way it was a Pyrrhic victory for him simply because his enemy had better training and was so much smaller.