text: Victory of Arminius over the Roman Legions under Varus, AD 9
  Known as the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
  Excerpt: "that victory secured at once and forever the independence of the Teutonic race."
  The Battle of Châlons, AD 451
  Also called the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields or the Battle of the Catalun.
  Excerpt: "The victory which the Roman general, Aëtius, with his Gothic allies, had then gained over the Huns, was the last victory of imperial Rome."
  The Battle of Tours, AD 732
  Also called the Battle of Poitiers.
  Excerpt: "the great victory won by Charles Martel ... gave a decisive check to the career of Arab conquest in Western Europe."
  The Battle of Hastings, AD 1066
  Excerpt: "no one who appreciates the influence of England and her empire upon the destinies of the world will ever rank that victory as one of secondary importance."
  Joan of Arc's Victory over the English at Orléans, AD 1429
  Known as the Siege of Orléans.
  Excerpt: "the struggle by which the unconscious heroine of France, in the beginning of the fifteenth century, rescued her country from becoming a second Ireland under the yoke of the triumphant English."
  Defeat of the Spanish Armada, AD 1588