The battle of Jutland was the major naval engagement of the First World War and marked a turning point in the naval war.

The war is marked by Hannibal's surprising overland journey and his costly crossing of the Alps, followed by his reinforcement by Gaulish allies and crushing victories over Roman armies in the battle of the Trebia and the giant ambush at Trasimene.

The battle marked a turning point in the war ; despite winning, the Allies were unable to proceed with the invasion, having suffered such tremendous casualties.

This battle marked a major turning point in Northumbrian fortunes: Penda died in the battle, and Oswiu gained supremacy over Mercia, making himself the most powerful king in England.

The battle marked the end of the Swedish Empire and the rise of the Russian Empire.

The death of Louis II as he fled the battle marked the end of the Jagiellon dynasty in Hungary and Bohemia, whose dynastic claims were absorbed by the Habsburgs via the marriage of Louis ' sister.

Although the monument was not ready in time to mark the centennial of the battle, the 100th anniversary of the battle was marked by speeches attended by President Rutherford B. Hayes.

This battle marked the turning point in Frederick's claim to empire.

All three films received bad reviews, and marked the beginning of a battle for Eastwood to win American film critics ' respect.

The battle marked the last successful foreign invasion of the British Isles.

Later Christian chroniclers and pre-20th century historians praised Charles Martel as the champion of Christianity, characterizing the battle as the decisive turning point in the struggle against Islam, a struggle which preserved Christianity as the religion of Europe ; according to modern military historian Victor Davis Hanson, " most of the 18th and 19th century historians, like Gibbon, saw Poitiers ( Tours ), as a landmark battle that marked the high tide of the Muslim advance into Europe.

According to chroniclers such as Eusebius of Caesarea and Lactantius, the battle marked the beginning of Constantine's conversion to Christianity.

The battle marked the end of Hungarian rule and the appearance of the first independent Romanian principality.

This battle marked the first appearance of the winged dragons, most notably Ancalagon the Black, but the Valar eventually won.

Being suspicious of anything with Papist connotations, however, rather than shift the anniversary of the Boyne to the new 1 July or celebrate the new anniversary of Aughrim, the Orangemen continued to march on 12 July which was ( erroneously ) thought to have marked the battle of the Boyne in New Style dates.

This battle marked the end of Spain's military ascendancy in Europe and foreshadowed French dominance in Europe under Louis XIV, his son and successor.

The battle marked the beginning of the political hegemony of the Habsburg dynasty in the Holy Roman Empire and Central Europe.

It has been suggested by some historians that the battle marked the turning point in the Ottoman – Habsburg wars, the 300-year struggle between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

The battle marked the first occasion legendary Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee would face each other in battle.

This battle marked a key turning point in the Revolutionary War in the South.

But on Cemetery Hill, the I Corps could muster only a third of its men as effective for duty and the corps was essentially destroyed as a combat force for the rest of the battle ; it would be decommissioned in March 1864, its surviving units combined into other corps.

Marathon was the first time a phalanx faced more lightly armed troops, and revealed how effective the hoplites could be in battle.

Simon's greatest triumph was the victory against superior numbers at the Battle of Muret — a battle which saw not only the defeat of Raymond of Toulouse and his Occitan allies — but also the death of Peter of Aragon — and the effective end of the ambitions of the house of Aragon / Barcelona in the Languedoc.

With a superb military machine with good weapons, excellent training, and effective field artillery, backed by an efficient government which could provide necessary funds, Gustavus Adolphus was poised to make himself a major European leader, but he was killed at the battle of Lützen in 1632.

The last recorded use of bows in an English battle seems to have been a skirmish at Bridgnorth, in October 1642, during the Civil War, when an impromptu town militia proved effective against un-armoured musketeers.

This practice discouraged offensive battle tactics because the longbow was most effective when an opposing army charged.

The social panic approach is justified by the language used – we talk of the battle against terrorism or the war on drugs ..." The Economist magazine has become increasingly vocal in its criticism of such regulation, particularly with reference to countering terrorist financing, referring to it as a " costly failure ", although concedes that the rules to combat money laundering are more effective.

However, their very poor rate of fire ( which often meant that only one shot was fired in the course of an entire battle ) and their inaccuracy made them more of a psychological force multiplier than an effective anti-personnel weapon.

Its Statement of Proclamation of the Organization declared "... the right of the Palestinian Arab people to its sacred homeland Palestine and affirming the inevitability of the battle to liberate the usurped part from it, and its determination to bring out its effective revolutionary entity and the mobilization of the capabilities and potentialities and its material, military and spiritual forces ".

Normally this was because any legion incapable of regaining its eagle in battle was so severely mauled it was no longer combat effective.

Despite effective fighting by the Greeks, Cyrus was killed in the battle.

Main battle tanks of the late 20th century such as the successful M1 Abrams tank fielded improved conventional 105mm and 120mm guns which proved effective against enemy armor threats.

For a heavily armed Persian knight, a mace was as effective as a sword or battle axe.

In the early stages of the battle, the shield wall was very effective at defending against the Norman archery barrages.

His performance was praised by Grant and Halleck and after the battle, he was promoted to major general of volunteers, effective May 1, 1862.

The result was a great Roman victory which, combined with the effective pursuit of the invaders in the aftermath of the battle and the energetic efforts of the Emperor Aurelian, largely removed the threat from Germanic tribes in the Balkan frontier for the following decades.

They have been widely used against armour in the past and still have a role but are less effective against modern composite armour, such as Chobham or Kanchan, as used on main battle tanks today.

The German cavalry screen proved effective at delaying them, and by the time the battle was already over their closest unit was still to the northwest of the initial contact between XVII German Corps and VI Russian Corps, perhaps as much as from the trapped Second Army.

His ship was one of nine which escaped the disaster, boldly rushing to Lampsacus where the Spartans had left their sails ( as was typical before a naval battle ) and so preventing any effective means of pursuit.

They were almost always the first assault element to make contact in a battle, and often the most effective.

Swiss mercenaries were sought during the late 15th and early 16th centuries as being an effective fighting force, until their somewhat rigid battle formations became vulnerable to arquebuses and artillery being developed at the same time.

The Haida developed effective weapons for boat-based battle, including a special system of stone rings weighing which could destroy an enemy's dugout canoe and be reused after the Haida pulled it back with the attached cedar bark rope.

The battle put an effective end to the Pechenegs as an independent people ; many of the captives taken in the conflict were settled as soldier-farmers within the Byzantine frontier.

Further, Philip II of Macedon, who studied and lived in Thebes, was no doubt heavily influenced by the battle to develop his own, highly effective approach to tactics and armament.