I may have mentioned somewhere on these boards that one of my favorite ever video game moments was in Sun-Tzu's Ancient Art of War on my friend's Kaypro our freshman year (1987-88), winning a battle with one exhausted guy left versus 5-6 enemy soldiers and somehow coming out a winner. (Made so much cooler by coming downstairs to go to supper and in the dorm lounge the song someone was playing was: "All I Need Is A Miracle.")
I don't know if any government would ever actually accept defeat with only one guy left in a battle, but yoru challenge is to have a battle in a war where the fewest number of people possib le survives to claim the title of winners of the battle. I suppose you could count a Hastings-type situation where onl one soldier survives so it's like, "Well, nobody esle around to claim the crown." But, it seems like that would be pretty hard.
I don't know if any government would ever actually accept defeat with only one guy left in a battle, but yoru challenge is to have a battle in a war where the fewest number of people possib le survives to claim the title of winners of the battle. I suppose you could count a Hastings-type situation where onl one soldier survives so it's like, "Well, nobody esle around to claim the crown." But, it seems like that would be pretty hard.