That was the conversion that changed world history, wasn't it? Had he lost the battle, the entire course of human history would have changed. Mind boggling.
History is full of forgotten footnotes.
Constantine? All of history changed because he had a bizarre dream.
Einstein is who both warned FDR that German was pursuing something called the atomic bomb and told FDR such could be built. For this, operations were undertaken successfully against Germany's heavywater production (for which Germany's one attempt to detonate an atomic bomb failed) and the USA undertook the massive atomic bomb program.
Yet Einstein was a militant pacifist. What changed his mind? His sister was murdered in a concentration camp.
Or the windows opened in Hitler's bunker and the one-armed bomb carrier able to arm only one of the two suitcase bombs? Had he succeeded, the Germany army on the Atlantic wall was going to roll on Berlin to take out the SS and surrender to the USA, while turning all German forces singularly to stop Russia's advance. That failure lead to the rise of the USSR and oppression of all of Eastern Europe.
BUT for Hitler's genocide of Jews he would have had atomic bombs for the tips of his V2 missiles - which would have forced both the UK and Russia to surrender and made such as the Normandy landing impossible. That tiny detail that virtually no one knows or mentions, that footnote, is one a fact if it didn't exist Germany would have won the war and dominated the world as the only atomic weapons power and only nation with ballistic missiles to put them on - easily launched on the USA from submarines if need be.
As for the never ending conflict between Muslims and Christians? Muhammed FIRST approached the Christian and Jewish leadership declaring that Arabs too have the SAME God and therefore claimed they ALL were the same religion. The response of those leaders was to try to hunt down Muhammed to kill him and his followers. Had they accepted? Imagine the endless wars to this day that would never of happened.
The tornado that hit Washington DC in the war of 1812. The gale that took out the Spanish Armada. The heavy rain just before the battle between the Christians of Paris and the Muslim army so softening the ground the Muslim horses couldn't travel on it.
In the War of 1812 the British had won. Conquered DC. Setting the city on fire. And a tornado hits their army and then a drenching rainstorm putting out the fires? What the hell are the odds of both those happening at that exact moment and place? Yet such as that possibly defines world history more than all the grand plans of the most brilliant planners.
Little historic details and quirks of reality.
And there there is the original Sunni-Shia split. If only Muhammed had left a will saying who assumed his role?
Despite all the grand schemes, history is mostly written by inadvertent and seemingly small details, oversights and entirely unpredictable events.
Curiously, that is one abstract strong suggestion there is a God or some unknown Karma powers involved in world and human events.