 By the Edwardian period, colonial wars had become increasingly unpopular, and public and political opinion were unhappy about waging war for such minor reasons as those provided by Curzon, and about the beginning battle, which was described in Britain as a deliberate massacre of unarmed men.It was only because of support from King Edward VII that Younghusband, Macdonald, Grant and others were praised for the war.The British lost just 202 men to the enemy and 411 to other causes.