Chaeronea 338 BCE.
Their money. Their fighting potential to harness for his own use. Their culture.
During WW2 that would have been the 2nd Battle of El Alamein.
Lee was not defeated at 2nd Bull Run. It was a brilliant Confederate victory, and a triumph of the Lee-Jackson partnership.
They were defeated on February 2nd 1943. The date fell on a Friday and the first of the month. This was after 5 months, 1 week and 3 days of intense endless battle.
General Pope lost to General Lee at Second Bull Run.
On the 2nd day of fighting at the battle of Gettysburg, Union forces defeated the Confederate attackers, which enabled the Union troops to maintain a strategic position as well as uplift the moral of the troops and declare a victory in the day's battle.
Germany was defeated on May 2nd 1945.
The Athenians never had an empire as such. The Athenian city-state was over run and incorporated into the Greek Empire by Philip of Macedon, Alexander the great's father."The Greeks likewise assembled their largest army since the Persian invasion to face the Macedonian invasion. At Chaeronea in central Greece where the two armies met, the whole of Greece put 35,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry on the field, while the Macedonians had 30,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry. Although outnumbered, with suburb[sic] tactics and well coordination of the phalanx with the cavalry, the Macedonian 'barbarian' defeated the united Greek army. Among the Greeks, the Athenians, Thebans, and the Achaeans suffered the biggest losses.The ancient Roman and Greek historians, consider the battle of Chaeronea, on August 2nd, 338 BC as an end to Greek liberty and history." -Philip of Macedon Philip II of Macedon BiographyKing of Macedonia and conqueror of Illyria, Thrace, and Greece
Philip Condit was born on August 2nd, 1941.
The last battle that took place at Hogwarts, was May 1st, 1998 to May 2nd, 1998 because it was midnight when Harry went into the forbidden forest, which came before he defeated Voldemort.
The 2nd plot battle of this plot closed Oct. 26 when all of the villians were defeated. This is posted in the Battledome. I'm sure there will be another fight.
Germany was defeated at the Battle of Stalingrad when it surrendered on February 2nd 1945. The reason for this that one of the German Generals said to the soviets that there was no reason to continue fighting.