* Lord Beginner's song " General Election " was inspired by Attlee's victory in the 1950 British general election.

After the war, the reigning king had his minstrels compose a song praising his victory, which contains the first written record of the word " Somali ".

The song was used as the victory anthem of Team Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in 2010 replacing Scotland the Brave.

Hermann ( 1906 ) identifies as such * ansulaikom the victory songs of the Batavi after defeating Quintus Petillius Cerialis in the Batavian rebellion of 69 AD ( according to Tacitus ' account ), and also the " nefarious song " accompanied by " running in a circle " around the head of a decapitated goat sacrificed to ( he presumes ) Wodan, sung by the Lombards at their victory celebration in 579 according to the report of Pope Gregory the Great ( Dialogues ch.

In Britain the victory was greeted with much celebration, and in 1740, at a dinner in honour of Vernon in London, the song " Rule Britannia " was performed in public for the first time.

With the charm was blended the name of the god, and thus the paean became a song of thanksgiving and eventually of victory.

They allowed for the possibility of small errors in their calculations and even in some of their historic dates .” In fact, on February 28, Miller himself had written, “ If Christ comes, as we expect, we will sing the song of victory soon ; if not, we will watch, and pray, and preach until he comes, for soon our time, and all prophetic days, will have been filled .”

The winning entry " Puppet on a String ", sung by Sandie Shaw had one of the widest margins of victory ever witnessed in the competition ; it garnered more than twice as many votes as the second place song.

The continuous, back-and-forth nature of the struggle, which defined this period, is captured in the Oirat epic song " The Rout of Mongolian Sholui Ubashi Khong Tayiji ," recounting the Oirat victory over the First Khan of the Altan Khanate in 1587.

Famous match races include the 1851 match at York between the Epsom Derby winners The Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur ; the 1878 four mile long race in Louisville between the Eastern U. S. colt Ten Broeck and California filly Mollie McCarty that inspired the song Molly and Tenbrooks, the Canadian contest between Man o ' War and Sir Barton in 1920, won by Man O ' War ; Seabiscuit's victory over War Admiral in the 1938 Pimlico Special ; the 1955 race between Nashua and Swaps, the 1966 Pace of the Century between standardbred champs Bret Hanover and Cardigan Bay, and 1975's tragedy-marred contest between colt Foolish Pleasure and filly Ruffian at Belmont Park.

" The Riders also use a pair of " borrowed " songs -- the team's victory march / touchdown song, " Green is the Colour " ( edited copy of the original " Blue Is the Colour ( song )" written by D Boone and R McQueen for the Chelsea Football Club ) and " On Roughriders " ( edited from On Wisconsin, the fight song for the Wisconsin Badgers ).

Miriam is called a prophetess, and is traditionally believed to have sung a brief victory song after Pharaoh ’ s army was drowned in the Red Sea ().

First may be mentioned poems that deal principally with events, being epic-lyric in character: the triumphal song of Israel delivered from Egypt, or the song of the sea ; the mocking song on the burning of Heshbon ; the so-called song of Moses ; the song of Deborah ; the derisive song of victory of the Israelite women ; Hannah's song of praise ; David's song of praise on being saved from his enemies ; Hezekiah's song of praise on his recovery ; Jonah's song of praise ; and many of the Psalms, e. g., those on the creation of the world, and on the election of Israel.

Later in 1882, following the famous Australian victory at The Oval, Bligh led an England team to Australia, as he said, to " recover those ashes ".

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

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.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

A dramatic episode in Australian history followed Lyons ' first electoral victory when NSW Premier Jack Lang refused to pay interest on overseas State debts.

She was appointed Opposition Leader in 1999, and won a surprise victory at the 2001 territory election, becoming the first Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) and first female Chief Minister of the Northern Territory.

As Supreme Allied Commander of the South West Pacific Area, General Douglas MacArthur had after months of arguments with that victory, finally convinced Australian politicians in early August 1942 to " defend Australia by defending Port Moresby "— a forward defense strategy.

Following a life-threatening injury during qualifying for the 1995 Australian Grand Prix, Häkkinen made a considerable improvement in 1996 and took his first victory at the 1997 European Grand Prix.

) Sampras failed to defend his Australian Open title, losing in the quarterfinals to Karol Kučera, and won Wimbledon only after a hard-fought five-set victory over Goran Ivanišević.

The loss included only one of his 14 Grand Slam title trophies, from his first Australian Open victory, but also included two Davis Cups, an Olympic ring and six trophies for finishing top in the year-end rankings.

After the race, Freeman took a victory lap, carrying both the Aboriginal and Australian flags.

Hadlee followed this up with 7 wickets in a loss in the second test, and 11 wickets in a New Zealand victory in the third test, giving his country their first series win on Australian soil and a personal haul of 33 wickets in 3 tests.

The victory of West Australian in 1853 completed the first success in the Triple Crown.

During the 1991 – 92 Australian season, Taylor batted consistently in a 4 – 0 series victory over India.

After South Africa withheld the Australian bowling on the final day to secure a draw in the Boxing Day Test, Australia took a 1 – 0 lead in the New Year's Test at Sydney with an innings victory.

Bradman's share of the stand was 244 from 271 balls, and the Australian total of 701 set up victory by 562 runs.

The 1931 professional event saw victory by Australian Hubert Opperman with a sprint on the finish velodrome after his long solo breakaway was neutralized just outside Paris.

At the Battle of Hamel on 4 July 1918, Monash, with the support of the British 4th Army commander Sir Henry Rawlinson commanded the 4th Australian Division, supported by the British 5th Tank Brigade, along with a detachment of US troops, to win a small but operationally significant victory for the Allies.

The Australian Open victory made her the third player in history to complete a " boxed set " of Grand Slam titles by winning the singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles at all four Grand Slam events.

It was a decisive Allied victory, fought off the Peloponnesus coast of Greece from 27 March to 29 March 1941 in which the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy under the command of the British Admiral Cunningham intercepted those of the Italian Regia Marina, under Admiral Angelo Iachino.

Following victory, the Australian force in Iraq was limited to specialists attached to the Coalition headquarters in Baghdad and the search for Iraq's suspected weapons of mass destruction, a frigate in the Persian Gulf, a party of air traffic controllers at Baghdad International Airport, two C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, two AP-3C Orion aircraft and small Security Detachment ( SECDET ) consisting of infantry and Airfield Defence Guards protecting the Australian military units and diplomats based in Baghdad.

Consequently, ' lay down misere ' is Australian gambling slang for a predicted easy victory.

* 4 December – Béziers, France: Australian captain Mal Meninga plays the last game of his illustrious career, leading Australia to a 74 – 0 victory over France and scoring the final try of the game

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The alternative to this is that if a conservative candidate is nominated the national committee will have to appeal to the trusts for their campaign funds, and in doing this will incur obligations which would make a Democratic victory absolutely fruitless.

He suggested that without the Socialist Party ever gaining a national victory, most of its original program has come to pass under both major parties.

For some, Chiang was a national hero who led the victorious Northern Expedition against the Beiyang Warlords in 1927, achieving Chinese unification, and who subsequently led China to ultimate victory against Japan in 1945.

He captained Colombia's national football team to victory in the 1994 Fifa World Cup CONMEBOL qualifiers.

Johnson became the first coach to claim a national championship in college football and a Super Bowl victory in professional football.

The Nazi propaganda depicted Weimar as " a morass of corruption, degeneracy, national humiliation, ruthless persecution of the honest ' national opposition ' —- fourteen years of rule by Jews, Marxists and ' cultural Bolsheviks ', who had at last been swept away by the National Socialist movement under Adolf Hitler and the victory of the ' national revolution ' of 1933.

The victory remains a source of national pride to Ecuadorians as a rare case when " Ecuador " forcefully bettered a " neighboring country.

The tense diplomatic relations between East and West Pakistan reached a climax in 1970 when the Awami League, the largest East Pakistani political party, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, ( Mujib ), won a landslide victory in the national elections in East Pakistan.

Energized by his personal victory over paralytic illness, FDR's unfailing optimism and activism contributed to a renewal of the national spirit.

The final margin of victory was sufficiently high to permit a " red-green " coalition of the SPD with Alliance ' 90 / The Greens ( Bündnis ' 90 / Die Grünen ), bringing the Greens into a national government for the first time.

Historians agree that Hoover's national reputation and the booming economy, combined with deep splits in the Democratic Party over religion and prohibition, guaranteed his landslide victory with 58 % of the vote.

In April 1996, national elections led to the victory of a center-left coalition, Olive Tree, under the leadership of Romano Prodi.

Tommy Docherty gave Dalglish his debut for the Scottish national side as a substitute in the 1 – 0 Euro 1972 qualifier victory over Belgium on 10 November 1971 at Pittodrie.

The elder Pretorius had become a national hero of the Voortrekkers after his victory over the Zulus in the Battle of Blood River.

In response to those opposing the independence of Biafra, the solicitor for the indigenous people of Biafra made a strong argument in both national and international law asserting that what Nigeria got after the Biafra War of Independence was a military conquest and not a political victory.

Although Perot easily won the nomination, his victory at the party's national convention led to a schism, as supporters of his opponent, former Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado, accused him of rigging the vote to prevent them from casting their ballots.

In March 2005, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers ( CIW ) won a landmark victory in its national boycott of Taco Bell for human rights.

Mutual assured destruction, or mutually assured destruction ( MAD ), is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by two opposing sides would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of both the attacker and the defender, becoming thus a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only effective reciprocal destruction.

The chorus of Scotland's unofficial national anthem Flower of Scotland refers to Scotland's victory over Edward and the English at Bannockburn.

The Labour Party's UK national leadership was seen to interfere in the contest and deny the popular Rhodri Morgan victory.

Though Hitler failed to achieve his immediate stated goal, the event did give the Nazis their first exposure to national attention and a propaganda victory.