How future US president, general Andrew Jackson, brutally pacified the anti-US resistance of the Native American Seminole tribe of Spanish Florida in the First Seminole War and then brazenly proceeded to capture the state for the U.S.
How, during the American Revolution, British general William Howe captured New York in an attempt to pacify by force the rebels led by George Washington.
William De Normendie presses his claim on the Throne of Anglo-Saxon England and triumphs over and kills the Anglo-Saxon king,Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings.Thereby becoming William the Conqueror and becoming the new King of England.
How Spanish general Hernan Cortes and his 500 Conquistadors mercilessly conquered the Aztec Empire and placed large portions of Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
How, in the 11th century, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a Castilian nobleman and military leader better known as El Cid, pushed back the invaders from North Africa in an attempt to reunite Spain.