Even Elizabeth I?.......
I’m no great fan of that wooden-toothed fanatic.
She used to starve the crews of her Navy ships so that they would have to desert the ships in harbor - which meant that she didn’t have to pay them. The famous victory over the Armada was no thanks to her - she just took credit after the fact.
A modern context might be: Obama’s ‘victory’ in killing bin Laden. It was very much despite Obama, not because of him.