User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/The Civil War - Why it is great/@comment-5469467-20121101051603/@comment-1600847-20121102000301

They couldn't have won, or else Mede would have pounced on the idea. Let's look at the facts: his army was exhausted from the battle of the Red Ring, he had lost more than half his army and the Thalmor were bringing in fresh troops who outnumbered his exhausted army. It would have been a massacre. It was either surrender or die. Mede knew that a person who kneels can rise one day, blade in hand, while a dead person is just that: dead.