Never did a general carry to battle a better plan of battle than Fighting Joe Hooker's at Chancellorsville (May 2-3, 1863), and rarely has one marched from a battle that had proved for his own side a more lamentable fiasco.

He confessed his fiascoes to her.

The conspirators, gathered at the cellar with their war-paints on (in case of reporters), discussed the fiasco in embittered tones.

Nothing loath he engaged, and the others stood back expecting a high fiasco.

The attempt to combine the two functions could only end as it beganin a double fiasco.

It seems difficult now to fancy Mr. Chamberlain making such a fiasco.

In 1757 Wolfe distinguished himself by formulating the plan which, if properly executed, would have prevented the British fiasco at Rochefort on the coast of France.

His friends, it is true, endeavoured as usual to explain the fiasco of the first performance by the ignorance and incompetence of the spectators, but we shall, I think, see reason to come ourselves to a scarcely less unfavourable conclusion.