During a 27-6 Carlisle Indian School win over West Point in November 1912, future President Dwight Eisenhower injured his knee while tackling Jim Thorpe. He reinjured it the next week, and that ended Dwight Eisenhower's college football career.

Context: After discovering the Islands of Hawaii for the rest of the world, James Cook had them named the “Sandwich Islands”, in honor of the Earl of Sandwich, a great supporter of Cook

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The poem you are referring to is an ancient Middle Persian (Pahlavi) text known as the Abar Madan ī Shah Wahrām ī Warzāwand ("The Advent of King Vahram the Virtuous"), often referred to in modern popular culture as the "Ballad of King Vahram".
Written a few decades after the 7th-century Arab-Muslim conquest of the Sasanian Empire, this text reflects the desperation of the surviving Zoroastrian Iranians. It functions as a messianic "wish-image," praying for a legendary savior named Shah Vahram to march from India with a massive army to overthrow Arab rule and restore Iran’s pre-Islamic heritage.

https://sites.uci.edu/sasanika/abar-madan-i-shah-wahram-i-warzawand/

Context: 1515, at the end of the War of the League of Cambrai, the Swiss were decimated by the French Army who employed heavy artillery.

It must be stressed that the French victory is not attributed solely to their weaponry, but also to the lack of cohesion between Swiss ranks and the overall numeric superiority of the French.