DH is a reincarnation of Samson - his last great act is to pull down the temple.
In the Twentieth Century did not Adolf say that the German people were not worthy of such a great leader as he - he said this while Berlin was being overrun from all sides.
Custer’s last stand.
Some leaders survived to become legends - such as
The Earl of Cardigan (The Charge of the Light Brigade).
King Pyrrhus
replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one more such victory would utterly undo him. For he had lost a great part of the forces he brought with him, and almost all his particular friends and principal commanders.
Ned Ludd
Other accounts offer the less dramatic explanation that Lud was told by his father, who was a framework-knitter, to 'square his needles'; Lud took a hammer and "beat them into a heap".
We do not to know who is to blame for Pickett’s Charge, or the Battle of Somosierra.