He directed the European opposition to Louis XIV of France and, in Great Britain, secured the triumph of Protestantism and of Parliament.
That win was followed with another easy 15-4 vinthey in the deciding third game, as Cormier secured the triumph with a kill through the dig attempt of Poly setter Brian Ward.
There was the naive belief that Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most senior Shia cleric, favoured the separation of mosque and state when, in fact, it was he more than anyone else who was to secure the electoral triumph of the Shia Islamists.
The United States beat Europe here by 16½ to 11½ to secure the first American triumph since 1999 and the worst European defeat in 27 years.
Two superb goals by the Argentinian Lionel Messi, the first of them set up by his Ivory Coast teammate, Yaya Toure, secured the 4-0 triumph over Valladolid.
He cited the 1999 telephone survey of 556 graduating seniors from the nation's top 50 universities and colleges, who were asked to name the American general who won the Battle of Yorktown, which secured the colonists triumph over British forces in the Revolution.
Doyle had been on board last year for those triumphs, which helped him secure the plum role as Abdullah's retained rider, and the irony of beating his former partner was not lost on him.
Another goal, by Petter Villegas in the 62nd minute, secured the MetroStars' 2-0 triumph over the New England Revolution this afternoon at Foxboro Stadium before a crowd of 16,838.
He takes particular pleasure in CI's latest triumph, securing the logging rights to a 200,000-acre chunk of rainforest in Guyana.
