Brewer's: Hallelujah Victory

A victory gained by some newly-baptised Bretons, led by Germanus, Bishop of Auxerre (A.D. 429). The conquerors commenced the battle with loud shouts of “Hallelujah!”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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