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Jericho Hall is named after the battle of Jericho, described in the sixth chapter of the Book of Joshua. God's orders were for all of the mighty men of valor to march around the city of Jericho following His precise commands for six days.

At dawn on the seventh day, the armed men, the trumpet-bearing priests, the ark of the covenant, and the rear guard circled the city six times. On the seventh lap, Joshua commanded the people to “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city!”

As God had promised, so He did. At the Battle of Jericho, God caused the shouts of the Israelites to bring down the walls of Jericho. This victory began Israel’s advance, under the leadership of Joshua, into the Promised Land.

The Battle of Ashdown was fought in 871 between the West Saxons, lead by King Æthelred and his younger brother Alfred, and the invading Danish Viking army.

At the battle the Saxons defeated the Danes and killed their king, Bagsac, and five of his lords. Although fighting between the Danes and Saxons continued on for decades, the tide turned under Alfred who beat them steadily back during his reign.

Malta Hall is named after the Great Siege of Malta when, in 1565, Christian knights and soldiers stood in the gap against the onslaught of Islam in the West.

For twenty-one years, the military order known as the Knights Hospitaller had been stationed on Malta when in 1551, the Ottoman Empire made a failed attempt to take the island. Then, in 1565, under the direction of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Turks launched a second attack. Over the course of four months, five hundred Knights Hospitaller and six thousand Christian foot soldiers successfully held off the Turkish armada which outnumbered them five to one.

Their victory was celebrated throughout Christendom and proved pivotal in halting the advance of Islam in the West.