Small countries managing to defeat larger countries in conventional warfare?

WolfBear

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Which small countries have managed to defeat larger countries in conventional warfare or at least to hurt larger countries so much that these larger countries only managed to achieve a Pyrrhic victory against them?

I can think of:

-The Balkan League vs. the Ottoman Empire in 1912-1913
-Greece vs. Italy in 1941
-Israel vs. various Arab countries in the various Arab-Israeli Wars
-North Vietnam vs. the US in 1965-1975
-Armenia vs. Azerbaijan in 1992-1994 (Azerbaijan won the rematch in 2020)
-Ukraine vs. Russia (so far, at least)

Which additional examples of this are there?
 

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