Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Conquest, 1519–1521.
A military strategy of wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel and resources, such as cutting off food and water.
War of Attrition appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for Aztecs and the Spanish Conquest (1519–1535), especially Conquest, 1519–1521 and Siege of Tenochtitlan.
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