That's that then. American presidential election sorted.

If Donald Trump didn't believe it before, after the miracle of Butler Farm he will surely believe now that he has been specially chosen by God.

There are plenty of precedents for those who made their mark in history believing it was their destiny, or that they had been afforded special protection, or both.

When Churchill became Prime Minister in Britain's darkest hour in 1940 he believed that his whole life before had been a preparation for that moment. As a young man he had had several close shaves with death.

Charles de Gaulle survived around 30 attempts on his life. His narrowest escape came when assassins ambushed his car in 1962 and hit it 14 times amid a fusillade of automatic weapons fire. De Gaulle and his wife were unscathed, as was his entire entourage despite nearly 200 bullets being fired.

During the Great War, soldiers serving under the future Field Marshal Alexander – he became Montgomery's boss – are said to have literally........

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