• Arminius vs. Rome.
  Battle of Arminius. "One body of brave veterans, arraying themselves in a ring on a little mound, beat off every charge of the Germans, and prolonged their honorable resistance to the close of that dreadful day. The traces of a feeble attempt at forming a ditch and mound attested in after years the spot where the last of the Romans passed their night of suffering and despair. But on the morrow this remnant also, worn out with hunger, wounds, and toil, was charged by the victorious Germans and either, massacred on the spot, or offered up in fearful rites at the altars of the deities of the old mythology of the North."
  
  
• Chalons.
  Battle of Chalons. It is obvious enough why Attila styled himself "By the Grace of God, King of the Huns and Goths;" and it seems far from difficult to see why he added the names of the Medes and the Danes. His armies had been engaged in warfare against the Persian kingdom of the Sassanidae, and it is certain that he meditated the invasion and overthrow of the Medo-Persian power...
  
  
• Tours.
  Battle of Tours. "The events that rescued our ancestors of Britain and our neighbors of Gaul from the civil and religious yoke of the Koran." GIBBON. Schlegelf speaks of this "mighty victory" in terms of fervent gratitude, and tells how "the arm of Charles Martel saved and delivered the Christian nations of the West from the deadly grasp of all-destroying Islam;"

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