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His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.
Bradman's men were greeted by packed crowds across the country, and records for Test attendances in England were set in the Second and Fourth Tests at Lord's and Headingley respectively ; the crowd at Headingley remains a record, and it was there that Australia set a world record by chasing down 404 on the last day for a seven-wicket victory.
Le Mans 1967 remains the only truly all-American victory in Le Mans history-American drivers, team, chassis, engine and tyres.
As it happened, the left-footed shot was struck perfectly, completing a stunning victory and a hat-trick which remains unique to this day.
En route to the semi-final, which they lost to Real Madrid, the team recorded a 10 – 0 victory over Belgian champions Anderlecht, which remains the club's biggest victory on record.
After his victory over Geryon, Hercules passes through the kingdom of Bebryx again, finding the girl's lacerated remains.
After very heavy fighting both sides claim victory, but Moriones withdraws and Estella remains in Carlist hands.
Jefferson's 45. 6 percentage point victory margin remains the highest victory margin in a presidential election in which there were multiple major party candidates.
His 26. 2 percentage-point victory ( 60. 3 % to 34. 1 %) remains the largest popular-vote percentage margin in presidential elections after the so-called " Era of Good Feelings " ended with the unopposed election of James Monroe in 1820.
Charles ' victory is widely believed to have stopped the northward advance of Umayyad forces from the Iberian peninsula, and to have preserved Christianity in Europe during a period when Muslim rule was overrunning the remains of the old Roman and Persian Empires.
This victory was his eighth consecutive win in a Grand Slam final ( starting at 1995 Wimbledon ), which remains a record in the Open Era.
The Battle of the Boyne remains a controversial topic today, especially in Northern Ireland, where some Protestants remember it as the great victory over Catholics that resulted in the sovereignty of Parliament and the Protestant monarchy.
After victory in the Battle of Omdurman, the remains of the Mahdi were exhumed and scattered.
* 1963: Tottenham Hotspur 5 – 1 Atlético Madrid-Tottenham became the first British side to win a European trophy, beating reigning champions Atlético Madrid by a scoreline which remains the joint largest margin of victory in a one-match European final.
Further, following this victory the Roman Empire did not emerge with renewed military might, but instead was likewise weakened, though more slowly than the Huns: despite the assassinations of first Aëtius, then Emperor Valentinian III, then the Sack of Rome by Geiseric in 455, a generation later there were still sufficient useful remains of the Western Roman Empire for the warlords to fight over.
The resulting Battle of Abensberg was a clear, French victory, following which Napoleon ordered all but Davout's III Corps and Lefebvre ’ s ( Bavarian ) VII Corps to pursue and destroy what he thought was the remains of the Austrian Army.
Although both sides claimed victory after the battle, the fact remains that it was Tromp who left the field, not Blake, and in the end, it was Blake who was able to commandeer 20 to 40 Dutch merchantmen and at least eight Dutch warships back to his homeport.
Perle and Frum conclude: “ For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation ’ s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust .” These ideas are foundational elements of neoconservatism.
Mutombo's defensive presence was the key to the upset victory ; his total of 31 blocks remains a record for a five-game series.
* Cardiff City's FA Cup victory remains the only time the competition has been won by a club outside England.
A mausoleum containing the remains of 5, 073 Romanian soldiers was built to commemorate the Romanian victory.
The result of the battle remains ambiguous to this day because the advantage of the Loyalist victory was countered when a party sortied from Fort Stanwix and sacked their camp, spoiling morale among the Indians.

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After victory in battle, the Romans used to set up a trophy pole called a tropaeum ( from the Greek tropaion, source of English " trophy ").
Common examples are money, victory, glory, survival, a source of power, a potential threat, a mysterious but highly desired item or object, or simply something that is entirely unexplained.
Angered by what seemed to be unfair treaties and the withholding of vital provisions by the Canadian government, and also by the dwindling buffalo population, their main source of food, Big Bear and his Cree decided to rebel after the successful Métis victory at Duck Lake.
Scholars both ancient and modern have turned to Pindar's own workhis victory odes in particularas a source of biographical information: some of the poems touch on historic events and can be accurately dated.
Conversely the final policy represented a victory for business interests ( who feared competition from the government in the area of applied research and who saw Kilgore's patent law proposal as a threat to their property rights ) and for scientists ( who gained control of what would later become an important source of resources and professional autonomy ).
" They point out that Lucian is the only classical source to which all the elements existed of the story known in modern culture as the " Marathon story of Phillipedes ": a messenger running from the fields of Marathon to announce victory, then dying on completion of his mission.
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, one of Hernan Cortez's Captains and the source of the recipe, states in his book, that the Cholulan Indians, allied with the Aztecs, were so confident of victory in a battle against the Conquistadors the following day that they had " already prepared cauldrons of tomatoes, salt and chiles " in anticipation of a victory feast.
Surviving letters identify the source of that victory ' through the vows of his sisters.
1 Dec. 2008 < http :// search. eb. com / eb / article-9062179 >.</ ref > Originally intended as a response to problems that arose during Britain's victory in the Seven Years War they later became a source of tension between inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies and the government in London.
By autumn popular support for the revolution was so powerful that those who still opposed it became reluctant to speak out, According to one source " victory may be dated to mid-November 1978.
The outcome of this confrontation is uncertain, as both sides claim victory in their respective chronicles and sagas and the only independent source of the war fails to mention the battle at all.
With the victory the Athenians also occupied Phocis, the original source of the conflict and the Opuntian Locris.
Initially developed by Microsoft Research, the game was later released under a shared source license in 2004 Like an RTS, there is a commander who builds bases and miners, controls the team's cash and develops the team's plan for victory.
Rann is able to claim victory with the possession of the Enigma Force-a semi-sentient power source that bonded with him during his period of suspended animation-which enables him to perform incredible feats.
The source states that ( Stead's victory over Sir William Gage's XI ) was the third time this summer that the Kent men have been too expert for those of Sussex.
According to textual scholars, the account of a Philistine victory at Jezreel derives from the monarchial source, in contrast to the republican source, which places the Philistine victory against the Israelites at Mount Gilboa.
Alain Pigeard, whose work is a major source for this article, rates the engagement as a French victory.
This grouping has been interpreted as a symbolic representation of early Roman society, wherein Jupiter, standing in for the ritual and augural authority of the Flamen Dialis ( high priest of Jupiter ) and the chief priestly colleges, represents the priestly class, Mars, with his warrior and agricultural functions, represents the power of the king and young nobles to bring prosperity and victory through sympathetic magic with rituals like the October Horse and the Lupercalia, and Quirinus, with his source as the deified form of Rome's founder Romulus and his derivation from co-viri (" men together ") representing the combined military and economic strength of the Roman people.
Other games aim for differing levels of micromanagement of different types: for instance, the Relic Entertainment title Dawn of War 2 minimises economic micromanagement as much as possible, such that there is no base construction, all units are produced from a single source, and resources are accumulated automatically over time by controlling strategic battlefield locations, while on the other hand the game emphasises tactical micromanagement as its primary skill, with combat taking place principally between relatively small squads of highly effective and highly vulnerable units, with victory a function of the rapid deployment of special weapons and tactics in order to counter enemy manoeuvres and inflict maximum damage quickly while avoiding sustaining damage.
Linguistically, the Pyrrhic War is the source of the expression " Pyrrhic victory ," a term for a victory won at too high a cost.

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