The commonly misunderstood Crusades were used as a cudgel against Catholicism here until 9/11.
Then they disappeared, to be replaced by the commonly misunderstood Galileo affair.
This is progress.
It was 9/11/1683 at the gates of Vienna that the polish army shown up at the point everyone knew Ottoman Empire was going to be stopped.
The other was October of 732 the Battle of Tours
Charles Martel (the Hammer)
These two events should be similar to our 4 of July for all of western civilization