At the decisive Battle of Leuven in September 891, he defeated an invading force of the Northmen, or Vikings, essentially ending their invasions on that front.

At its mouth was the scene of the decisive battle in 405 by which Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet, ending the Peloponnesian War.

At the Battle of Gravelotte, they formed the extreme left of the German army, and with the Prussian Guard carried out the attack on St Privat, the final and decisive action in the battle.

At this time, Wever conducted war games ( simulated against the French ) in a bid to establish his theory of a strategic bombing force that would, he thought, prove decisive by winning the war through the destruction of enemy industry, even though these exercises also included tactical strikes against enemy ground forces and communications.

At the center, a decisive turn brought one out again.

At first, the Margrave defeated Mieszko's forces ; subsequently the Duke's brother Czcibor defeated the Germans in the decisive stage, inflicting great losses among their troops.

At the decisive Battle of Nagashino, the combined forces of Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu devastated the Takeda clan with the strategic use of arquebuses.

At the decisive Battle of Plataea, the Allies destroyed the Persian army, whilst apparently on the same day, the Allied navy destroyed the remnants of the Persian fleet at the Battle of Mycale.

At that point, a decisive victory for Austria, uniting the Holy Roman Empire with the Spanish crown, would have upset the balance of power just as much as a victory for France.

* December 11 – At the Battle of Orewin Bridge in mid-Wales, Llywelyn the Last is killed and the Welsh suffer their final decisive defeat at the hands of the English.

At the same time, there is continued debate on whether UN membership or recognition as a state by the UN is a decisive feature of statehood ( since it represents broad recognition by the international community ); the debate arises because non-state entities can often satisfy the Montevideo Convention factors, while the list of states recognised by the UN, for the most part, correlate well with entities recognised as states by customary international law.

At this point, the aged Nabopolassar, passed command of the army to his son Nebuchadrezzar II, who led them to a decisive victory over the Egyptians at Carchemish, and pursued the fleeing survivors to Hamath.

) At the conclusion of the Appomattox Campaign, in which he and his troops played a decisive role, Custer was on hand at General Robert E. Lee's surrender.

At this period the Allies possessed a superiority of force with which it was decided to strike a decisive blow as early as possible.

At the decisive moment of the battle, Desaix was shot from his horse.

At this decisive point, Hannibal ordered his African Infantry to turn inwards and advance against the Roman flanks, creating an encirclement of the Roman infantry in one of the earliest known examples of the pincer movement.

At the same time, in the Soviet Union, Rundstedt's old command, Army Group South, was facing disaster at Stalingrad, the decisive battle of World War II in Europe.

At least two factors were decisive:

[...] At the end of the day what will be decisive is what the situation in the Middle East will be two to three years from now.

At the time the primary was the decisive election ; the general election was then a mere formality.

At the decisive Battle of Minatogawa in 1336, Takauji defeated Yoshisada again and killed Masashige, allowing him to seize Kyoto for good.

At Sbiba, along the Hatab River and now at Thala, the efforts of the German and Italian forces had failed to make a decisive break in the Allied line.

At 0800 the Prussian 8th Infantry Division arrived, and von der Tann decided it was time for a decisive attack.

At the Battle of Lade, the Ionians suffered a decisive defeat, and the rebellion collapsed, with the final members being stamped out the following year.

At the Battle of Asfeld ( 552 ), he killed Turismod, son of the Gepid king Thurisind, in a victory that resulted in the Emperor Justinian's intervention to maintain equilibrium between the rival regional powers.

At the party's first electoral contest, Jenkins narrowly failed to win a by-election at Warrington in July 1981, describing it as his " first defeat, but by far ( his ) greatest victory ".

At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Entre les murs ( The Class ) won the Palme d ' Or, the first French victory at the festival in 21 years.

At the time, the Concordat of Worms was proclaimed as a great victory for Henry V inside the Holy Roman Empire.

At the 2004 election, the National Front led by Abdullah had a massive victory, virtually wiping out the PAS and Keadilan, although the DAP recovered the seats it had lost in 1999.

At the end of May 1945, Stalin proposed a victory toast to the Soviet people, and to the virtues of the Russian majority in particular:

At the end of 357 Julian, with the prestige of his victory over the Alamanni to give him confidence, prevented a tax increase by the Gallic praetorian prefect Florentius and personally took charge of the province of Belgica Secunda.

At the time the British public were disappointed that the Royal Navy had not won a victory on the scale of Trafalgar.

At the British Grand Prix, Brabham was closing on Graham Hill's BRM before Hill spun off, leaving Brabham the victory.

At the December 1975 election, the Liberal-Country Party coalition won a landslide victory.

At first this seemed like a victory for Frederick of Augustenburg, but Bismarck soon removed him from power by making a series of unworkable demands, namely that Prussia should have control over the army and navy of the Duchies.

At the end of hostilities in Europe in 1944-45, " victory parades " were a common feature throughout the recently liberated territories.

Nevertheless, as if to thumb their nose at Allenby the British press continued to celebrate his victory over the Ottoman Empire by printing cartoons of Richard the Lionheart looking down on Jerusalem from the heavens with the caption reading " At last my dream has come true.

At first it seemed that this would be a repeat of the battle on Rhodes, with most of Malta's cities destroyed and half the Knights killed in battle ; but a relief force from Spain entered the battle, resulting in the loss of 30, 000 Ottoman troops and the victory of the local Maltese citizenry.

At the first election under universal adult suffrage each party gained three seats with Mancham claiming victory through the support of an independent.

At the 2011 Scottish Parliamentary election, the SNP won a landslide victory and became the first party to form a majority government in the Scottish Parliament since its resumption in 1999.

At the Republican Convention in Chicago, despite being the incumbent, Taft's victory was not immediately assured.

At the end of each film, the quotation from Army Chief of Staff George Marshall that "... the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the < u > utter defeat </ u > of the war machines of Germany and Japan.

* July 21 – American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run: At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war ends in a Confederate victory.

At Jupiter's temple on the Capitoline Hill he offered sacrifice and the tokens of his victory to the god.

At the outbreak of war, Powell immediately returned to Britain, but not before buying a Russian dictionary, since he thought " Russia would hold the key to our survival and victory, as it had in 1812 and 1916 ".

At the time of the overthrow of Communist party rule, Dubček described the Velvet Revolution as a victory for his humanistic socialist outlook.

At the 1924 general election, Baldwin won a clear victory, the leading coalitionists such as Austen Chamberlain and Lord Birkenhead ( and former Liberal Winston Churchill ) agreeing to serve under Baldwin and thus ruling out any restoration of the 1916 – 22 coalition.