Score 4 “atop” is a bit clunky but other than that could be an actual headline

Score 4, against would have worked better

Against is in The Word Bank already

Score 3. I like that we’re all doing real historical events for this! I feel like “victorious” and “atop” are mildly tautological, and I while I do think we’ll all want to be a bit more relaxed than usual about proper nouns in this round, using two quite context-specific names feels like a bit of a shortcut. But these a minor nitpicks on what is broadly a good effort!

Score 3

Base 5 for elegance and simplicity, minus two for making proper nouns do most of the hard work.

Score 4, I don’t really have any beef against proper nouns and it’s quite clean