That victory meant Ajax had won every tournament ( 5 in total ) they entered that year, a feat Celtic achieved in 1967 ( with 6 trophies ) and Barcelona ( also 6 trophies ) repeated in 2009.

Pasternak later said, " If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.

However a Danish priest on top of a hill overlooking the battle prayed to God, which meant that the Danes moved closer to victory the more he prayed.

On 16 April 1963, an astonishing game at Filbert Street against Manchester United, which saw both Ken Keyworth and Denis Law score a hat-trick each, ended in a 4 – 3 victory for Leicester, which meant Leicester sat top of the First Division and 11 days later Banks put in one of the performances of his career to keep out Liverpool as Leicester beat them 1 – 0 in the FA Cup semi-final despite being completely outplayed all game.

This victory, combined with the fact that winter was fast approaching, meant Germanicus's next step was to lead his army back to its winter quarters on the Rhine.

The arrival of a body of emigrants from Rhodes and Cnidus who subsequently founded Lipara, and who lent their assistance to the Segestans, for a time secured the victory to that people ; but disputes and hostilities seem to have been of frequent occurrence between the two cities, and it is probable that in 454 BCE, when Diodorus speaks of the Segestans as being at war with the Lilybaeans ( modern Marsala ), that the Selinuntines are the people really meant.

Lincoln's defeat could well have meant the victory of the Confederacy, as the Democratic Party platform called for peace negotiations based on the acknowledgment of the Confederacy's independence.

This meant that victory would fulfill the war aim that was crucial for the French public.

Decent home form, including a victory over Real Madrid, led to the team sitting comfortably in the top half of the Liga and qualifying from their Europa League group, although poorer performances away from Bilbao meant that a really successful run never materialised.

The Saints however were back to winning ways with a 3 – 1 victory away at Peterborough on Tuesday 17 April, which meant that promotion to the Premier League could be sealed with a win at Middlesbrough as West Ham had only managed a draw away to Bristol City.

He scored 103 out of a total of 242 and the gamble paid off, as it meant there was sufficient time to push for victory when an England collapse left them a target of only 107 to win.

However, a 3 – 0 victory over Switzerland and a 4 – 2 victory over Croatia meant England still qualified for a quarter-final against the hosts Portugal.

Naval historian John F. Guilmartin, Jr. also posits the question of what would have happened if the Ottomans had won: given the conditions of the engagement, a similarly crushing victory would have meant the effective disappearance of the Christian naval cadres and allowed the Ottoman fleet to roam the Mediterranean at will, with dire consequences for Malta, Crete and possibly even the Balearics or Venice itself.

More importantly, however, the lack of a decisive victory by either side meant that the war would go on.

However, his impressive victory in 1099 and his subsequent campaigning in 1100 meant that he was able to force Acre, Ascalon, Arsuf, Jaffa, and Caesarea to become tributaries.

Smith's biographer, Mark Stuart, claimed that Smith could have won Labour a Parliamentary victory in 1997 on a similar scale to that achieved by Tony Blair because of the combination of the Black Wednesday debacle and ongoing Conservative divisions over Europe between 1992 and 1997 ; however, Stuart argues that the lack of a Blair effect would have meant that the Conservative Party would have held slightly over 200 seats in the House of Commons, leaving the Conservatives in a position similar to that of Labour in 1983 than to the actual Conservative result in 1997.

Bad luck for rivals and excellent on-track performances from the Colombian meant he was a title contender, particularly after a key victory at the German Grand Prix.

The UK's victory this year meant that the contest would take place in the UK the following year-the seventh time the country had hosted the event ( still a record ), which was hosted in Harrogate at a later than usual date, 24 April.

His victory occurring when it did, the chronological proximity to the initial settlement of the Emperor Augustus ( then Octavian ) meant that the spolia opima was swallowed in an effort to consolidate Octavian's position in the eyes of the Senate.

James attended Mass services there with his Jacobite supporters for a time, however, the victory of the Protestant Williamites in this war meant that the cathedral was restored to Anglican ownership in 1690 when James abandoned Dublin after his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne.

A significant victory at the Battle of Camden meant that the invaders soon controlled most of Georgia and South Carolina.

The victory of the Popular Front in 1936 meant that Laval had a left-wing government as a target for his media.

Reference to Cato as " Uticensis " is presumably meant to glorify him by portraying his suicide at Utica as a great victory over Caesar's tyranny.

Spofforth went on to devastate the English batting, taking his final four wickets for only two runs to leave England just eight runs short of victory in one of the closest and most nail-biting finishes in the history of cricket.

After Bligh's victory, there was an extended period of English dominance.

The series was overshadowed by the furore over various Australian bowlers, most notably Ian Meckiff, whom the English management and media accused of illegally throwing Australia to victory.

Bede follows Gildas ' account of Ambrosius in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, but in his Chronica Majora he dates Ambrosius ' victory to the reign of the Emperor Zeno ( 474 – 491 ).

After his victory, Arnulf built a new castle on an island in the Dijle river ( Dutch: Dijle, English and French: Dyle ).

Marlborough wrote to Lord Raby, the English resident at Berlin: " If it should please God to give us victory over the enemy, the Allies will be little obliged to the King for the success.

Ogden's Basic, and the concept of a simplified English, gained its greatest publicity just after the Allied victory in the Second World War as a means for world peace.

The Annals of Clonmacnoise state that " the Scottish men compelled to return without any great victory ", while Henry of Huntingdon claims that the English faced no opposition.

The English army suffered badly from disease, and Henry was not even present at the one notable victory, the Battle of the Spurs.

The town hosts the annual Common Riding, which combines the annual riding of the boundaries of the town's common land with the commemoration of a victory of local youths over an English raiding party in 1514.

It lasts for five days and results in a decisive victory by the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

* 1333 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill – The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.

One famous Welsh longbow victory was on 22 June 1402 when Owain Glyndŵr fought a battle against the English at Bryn Glas.

* 1387 – Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.

In April, Bruce won a small victory over the English at the Battle of Glen Trool, before defeating Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke at the Battle of Loudoun Hill.

Inspired by this, Bruce returned to inflict a series of defeats on the English, thus winning him more supporters and eventual victory.

* 1586 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.

The numerical and material inferiority of the Scottish forces would be mirrored by that of the English in the Hundred Years ' War, who, in turn, abandoned chivalric warfare to achieve decisive victory in similar engagements such as Crécy and Poitiers.

William may have hoped that the English would surrender following his victory, but they did not.

* September 2 – English Civil War – Second Battle of Lostwithiel: Charles I and the Royalists gain their last major victory.

* August 10 – War of the League of Cambrai: English naval victory at the Battle of Saint-Mathieu over the French-Breton fleet.

* August – Battle of the Yellow Ford: The Irish rebellion against English rule gains a victory.

) – Second Anglo-Dutch War: English naval victory at the Battle of Lowestoft under James Stuart, Duke of York.

* July 31 – The first engagement between the English and Spanish fleets, off Plymouth, results in a victory for the English under command of Lord Howard of Effingham and Sir Francis Drake.