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| | History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073. (all) |
 | | One class of the druids, who delivered their instructions in verse, were distinguished by the title of bards, who as poets and musicians accompanied the chieftain to the battle-field, and enlivened the feasts of peace by the sound of the harp. | | | The mediaeval Christianization was a wholesale conversion, or a conversion of nations under the command of their leaders. | | | It was carried on not only by missionaries and by spiritual means, but also by political influence, alliances of heathen princes with Christian wives, and in some cases (as the baptism of the Saxons under Charlemagne) by military force. |
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| | The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (B) |
| | The Battle of Britain had been intended as a preliminary to the German invasion plan Sea Lion, which Hitler indefinitely postponed on the 17th of September and abandoned on the 10th of October, choosing instead to invade the USSR. | | | The Battle of Beda Fomm was a catastrophic Italian defeat at the hands of the British during the North African Campaign on the 7th of February 1941. | | | The Battle of Bougainville was an Allied campaign during November 1943 to April 1944 to recover the most northerly of the Solomon Islands from the Japanese. |
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| | Middle Ages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In England the change of monarchs which occurred on 22 August 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth is often considered to mark the end of the period, Richard III representing the old medieval world and the Tudors, a new royal house and a new historical period. | | | Internet Medieval Sourcebook Project Primary source archive of the Middle Ages. | | | Cunnan: A Wiki collecting information for re-enactors of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with a heavy slant towards members of the SCA |
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| | History Channel Battle of Britain 1940 for PC Review - PC History Channel Battle of Britain 1940 Review |
| | History Channel Battle of Britain 1940 Reader Reviews | | | The game comes with a scripted campaign of 12 missions, which lead you through various historical and fictional phases of the Battle of Britain. | | | While Rowan's Battle of Britain remains the standard for hardcore flight sim enthusiasts and those looking to experience true World War II flight simulation--with all of its challenges and frustrations--The History Channel Battle of Britain has a better chance of expanding the genre's appeal. |
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| | Battle of Mons Graupius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Even though the Romans were outnumbered in their campaign against the tribes of Britain, they had difficulties in getting their foes to face them in open battle. | | | That Agricola won the battle but failed to neutralise the threat to Roman security in the north of Britain had serious consequences for the remainder of the period of occupation. | | | Following this final battle, it was proclaimed that Agricola had finally subdued all the tribes of Britain. |
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| | The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (B) |
| | The Battle of Britain had been intended as a preliminary to the German invasion plan Sea Lion, which Hitler indefinitely postponed on the 17th of September and abandoned on the 10th of October, choosing instead to invade the USSR. | | | The Battle of Aboukir Bay, also known as the Battle of the Nile, was a naval battle during the Napoleonic Wars between Great Britain and France, in which Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated Napoleon Bonaparte 's fleet at the Egyptian seaport of Aboukir on the 1st of August 1798. | | | The Battle of Angamos was a naval battle fought off Angamos Point, north of Antofagasta in Chile on October the 8th 1879 between the Peruvian ironclad Huascar and the Chilean ironclad Blanco Encalada and Almirante Cochrane, assisted by the corvette Covadonga. |
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| | Timeline of Roman Britain |
| | This is, perhaps, the most widely believed of the legends of the founding of Christianity in Britain. | | | - The British troops, which had been recalled to assist Stilicho, were never returned to Britain as they had to stay in Italy to fight off another, deeper penetration by the barbarian chieftain, Radagaisus. | | | The recalled legion, known as the Sixth Victrix, was said by Claudian (in "De Bello Gallico," 416) to be "that legion which is stretched before the remoter Britons, which curbs the Scot, and gazes on the tattoo-marks on the pale face of the dying Pict." The barbarians were defeated, this time, at battle of Pollentia. |
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| | Håkans Flygsida - The Falco and Regia Aeronautica in the Battle of Britain |
| | The Battle of Britain - Richard Hough and Denis Richards, 1989 | | | One of the least well documented episodes of the Battle of Britain concerns the activities of Corpo Aereo Italiano (CAI) when during the late stage of the battle the Regia Aeronautica was instructed to establish a force in Belgium to assist in operations against the British. | | | Participation of the Regia Aeronautica at the end of the Battle of Britain was viewed as a political necessity - yet it was unwanted by the German High Command. |
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| | Battle of Mons Graupius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Even though the Romans were outnumbered in their campaign against the tribes of Britain, they had difficulties in getting their foes to face them in open battle. | | | That Agricola won the battle but failed to neutralise the threat to Roman security in the north of Britain had serious consequences for the remainder of the period of occupation. | | | Following this final battle, it was proclaimed that Agricola had finally subdued all the tribes of Britain. |
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| | Battle of Britain - Definition of Battle of Britain by Webster's Online Dictionary |
| | Battle of Britain - the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it | | | battle, Britain, conflict, engagement, fight, GB, Great Britain, Second World War, UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World War 2, World War II | | | Battle of Britain - Definition of Battle of Britain by Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| | World War II in Britain |
| | From July to October 1940, the English people suffered under the Battle of Britain: intense German bombing. | | | This marks the beginning of World War II in Europe. | | | That same month, on May 26, 1940, in the face of a large-scale German offensive, British troops on the continent were forced into one of the largest evacuations in history -- the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk on the Belgian coast. |
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| | Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc. |
| | There is a possible connection, since the Ossetians are descendants of the Alans, and Marcus Aurelius had settled a tribe of Alans, the Iazyges, whom he had defeated in 175 and taken into Roman service, in the north of Britain, where many of them settled at Bremetenacum Veteranorum, south of Lancaster. | | | Decius and Herennius were killed in battle by the Goths in 251 -- the only Roman Emperors to die in battle (against external enemies) besides Julian (against the Persians, 363), Valens (against the Goths again, 378), Nicephorus I (against the Bulgars, 811), and Constantine XI (with the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, 1453). | | | After Roman Britain disappeared from history, when the usurper Constantine "III" took his troops to Gaul, Bede's History of the English Church and People is just about the first that we then hear of it, three hundred years later. |
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| | The Battle of Britain had been intended as a preliminary to the German invasion plan Sea Lion, which Hitler indefinitely postponed on the 17th of September and abandoned on the 10th of October, choosing instead to invade the USSR. | | | The Battle of Beda Fomm was a catastrophic Italian defeat at the hands of the British during the North African Campaign on the 7th of February 1941. | | | The Battle of Bougainville was an Allied campaign during November 1943 to April 1944 to recover the most northerly of the Solomon Islands from the Japanese. |
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| | The Battle of Britain had been intended as a preliminary to the German invasion plan Sea Lion, which Hitler indefinitely postponed on the 17th of September and abandoned on the 10th of October, choosing instead to invade the USSR. | | | The Battle of Beda Fomm was a catastrophic Italian defeat at the hands of the British during the North African Campaign on the 7th of February 1941. | | | The Battle of Bougainville was an Allied campaign during November 1943 to April 1944 to recover the most northerly of the Solomon Islands from the Japanese. |
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| | Roman Britain |
| | His rebellion was ended in 388, but this time not all of the troops were returned to Britain by an empire that had suffered a great loss of life in the Battle of Adrianople in 378, and now was scrambling to find sufficient manpower to defend all of its borders. | | | When Hadrian reached Britain on his famous tour of the Roman provinces around 120, he directed an extensive defensive wall, known as Hadrian's Wall to be built from the Tyne to the Solway Firth, which became the northern frontier of the province. | | | Second, any rebellious official who used this resource must needs strip the island of its garrison to march on Rome and seize the throne, leaving the island defenceless to attackers -- which is what Albinus did in 196. |
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| | The General Armstrong and the War of 1812 |
| | From John Van Duyn Southworth, 1904-1986 (used with permission), Age Of Sails: war at sea, New York, Twayne Publishers, 1968: While the peace negotiations were in progress, Britain was preparing the greatest blow of the war. | | | Navy -- History -- War of 1812 New Orleans, Battle of, 1815 United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Naval operations | | | Imprest and in prison in Battles to share |
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| | Motte & Bailey, Booksellers |
| | A history of the Battle of Britain, concentrating on the efforts of the RAF Fighter Command and their pilots in defeating the German Luftwaffe over Britain. | | | This book includes selections on the "Politics of War," strategy, battle, and planning. | | | An excellent work on the military aspects of the Wars of the Roses including analysis of the battles and campaigns along with information on mustering and supplying troops and the conflict's impact on late medieval English society. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Battle for Baghdad looms |
| | The most important battle of the war, over the future shape of Iraq, continues to rage behind the scenes in Washington and in a cluster of beachside villas in Kuwait, where the government-in-waiting is being assembled. | | | Moves to replace the Ba'athists with a Pentagon regime dominated by American neo-conservatives (nicknamed "Wolfie's people", as they are protegees of deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz) are being resisted by the state department, virtually the whole of the Iraqi opposition movement and, to some extent, Britain. | | | The Arabic channel had previously been accused by the US of acting as a mouthpiece for the Baghdad regime, but the Iraqi government's move is likely to enhance its reputation for independent reporting. |
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| | The Heroic Age: The Age of Arthur |
| | This line of reasoning has made modern scholars almost unanimous that when Nennius wrote urbs legionis, he was saying that there was an Arthurian battle at Chester; scholarly disagreement has focussed entirely on whether he was right. | | | The Historia Brittonum has had a bad press recently, particularly from David Dumville, who has argued that what it says about fifth and sixth-century Britain is worthless except as a record of what people in later centuries thought happened then (Dumville 1986:1-26; 1977:173-92). | | | The place Gildas intended must be somewhere in the part of Britain that he knew, which certainly stretched from the Straits of Dover in south-east Britain round to Cornwall in the south-west and Gwynedd in north-west Wales but which may have extended beyond that. |
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| | Scotsman.com Business - Top Stories - Eddington takes up transport challenge |
| | Eddington, 55, whose exit from BA was announced last week, had been expected to leave for Australia in January after spending three months travelling in Britain with his family. | | | Eddington said: "Iâm excited to be asked by government to lead this work as I believe passionately that transport infrastructure is incredibly important to peopleâs lives." | | | The DfT stressed that Eddington would advise rather than conduct a review, like Lord Birt, whose efforts for No.10 received a very mixed press. |
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| | The Standard Bearer - Battle of the Atlantic Memorial |
| | The Battle of the Atlantic was a battle for Britain's very survival and began in the early day's of 1940. | | | The Battle of the Atlantic continued until 1945 during which time some 15 Million Tonnes of Shipping were lost and over 50,000 Allied Seamen lost their lives. | | | This lifeline was Britain's 'centre of gravity' - the loss of which would probably have led to wholesale defeat in the war. |
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| | S: Shwartz, Susan, "Count of the Saxon Shore", in W: Arthur of Britain survived the battle of Camlann. | | | W: The French won the Battle of Quebec and took over Britain's American territories at the end of the French and Indian War. | | | W: The owner of the farm where the battle of Murray Hill (New York City) was fought persuaded British redcoats to pursue and capture Washington. |
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| | Battle of Jutland -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | The summer of 1916 saw the long-deferred confrontation of Germany's High Seas Fleet and Great Britain's Grand Fleet in the Battle of Jutland—history's biggest naval battle, which both sides claimed as a victory. | | | Germany destroyed and crippled more ships and men, but Britain retained control of the North Sea. | | | The shell gun (raised to naval attention during the Crimean War by the Battle of Sinope, Nov. 30, 1853) compelled navies to adopt the iron sheathing of hulls. |
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| | How it all began - A concise history of Lebanon |
| | Maronite volunteers reportedly fought with the French in the battle, and there were open Maronite celebrations of the French victory, or rather of the Arab defeat. | | | As the Allies met at San Remo to redraw the map of the Arab world, Sharif Faysal was proclaimed King of Syria, with a view to place Britain and France before an accomplished fact. | | | At the battle of the Maysalun Pass, in the Anti-Lebanon, the French did crush the forces of King Faysal in July 1920, which finally opened the way for their occupation of Damascus. |
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| | Long Island Battle Of: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library |
| | ...R.A.F. of its long-range-warning...the outcome of the Battle of Britain might...or Destroyer long-range fighter...England during the Battle of Britain. | | | in the Battle of the Bulge, False Beliefs and Negative...desperation, which undermines a healthy long-range approach to sensible eating...Bound outdoor classroom on Hurricane Island, off the coast of Maine. | | | ...Historicity in The Battle of Maldon...different island groups.(1...tradition have long since been...for a very long time. |
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| | Battle of Mons Graupius |
| | Even though the Romans were outnumbered in campaign against the tribes of Britain they difficulties in getting their foes to face in open battle. | | | The Battle of Mons Graupius took place in AD 83 or AD Gnaeus Julius Agricola the Roman governor had sent his fleet ahead to the Caledonians and with light infantry reinforced with auxiliaries reached the site which he found by the enemy. | | | The site of the battle is unknown presumably lies in the Scottish Highlands and Bennachie in Aberdeenshire on the border between the Highlands the Lowlands has been suggested as the site. |
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| | The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (B) |
| | The Battle of Britain had been intended as a preliminary to the German invasion plan Sea Lion, which Hitler indefinitely postponed on the 17th of September and abandoned on the 10th of October, choosing instead to invade the USSR. | | | The Battle of Beda Fomm was a catastrophic Italian defeat at the hands of the British during the North African Campaign on the 7th of February 1941. | | | The Battle of Bougainville was an Allied campaign during November 1943 to April 1944 to recover the most northerly of the Solomon Islands from the Japanese. |
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| | The Heroic Age: Politics of Exile in Early Northumbria |
| | She believed that the battle of Chester could have only become so renowned in the annals if the kingship of all Britain was at stake, equating Selyfs importance with that of both Cadwallon of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia (Chadwick 1963b:182-185). | | | If Edwin was in Gwynedd before the battle of Chester it seems unlikely that he had been there long or that it was the only reason for Æthelfrith's attack. | | | His fall in battle among the southern Angles brought a near total revolution in the politics of what is now northern England. |
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| | Saladdaze |
| | Naval Battle that ended the threat of a French invasion of Britain, and removed the French navy from the rest of the war. | | | The battle began in earnest and after an exchange of broadsides the Spanish were prevented from turning back to rejoin battle by the bravery and foresight of Horatio Nelson. | | | By the time nightfall ended the battle, the French had lost half of their ships, and 2,500 skilled sailors, whose lose was the most serious result of the battle for the French. |
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| | Some philologists claim that Indo-European based language was already established throughout the entire continent, including Britain and Ireland, at the time of the above events. | | | Others claim that it came in with the Battle-Axe people. | | | They appear to be one of the earliest warrior aristocracies in Europe, which is inferred from the grave goods buried with their chieftains, which include archery equipment with flint tipped arrows and a stone arm bracer to withstand the rebound of the bow string. |
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