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	Learn more about List of battles (alphabetical) in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Battle of Covadonga - 722 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
		Battle of Mohacs - 1526 - Turkish Conquest of Hungary
		Battle of Pavia (773) - Conquests of Charlemagne
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_battles__alphabetical_.html (4758 words)

	Grandson - LoveToKnow 1911
		The Swiss hastened to revenge this deed, and in a famous battle (2nd March 1476) defeated Charles with great loss, capturing much booty.
		The scene of the battle was between Concise and Corcelles, north-east of the town, and is marked by several columns, perhaps ancient menhirs.
		Grandson was thenceforward till 1798 ruled in common by Berne and Fribourg, and then was given to the canton du Leman, which in 1803 became that of Vaud.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Grandson (215 words)

	Tents of the 16th Century
		1525 A.D. (Hans Schaufelein, The Battle of Pavia)
		1526 A.D. (Hans (Leonhard) Schäufelein, The Battle of Pavia)
		1530 A.D. (Hans (Leonhard) Schäufelein, The Battle of Betulia)
	www.geocities.com /historyoftents/16thcentury/16thcindex.html (1178 words)

	Battle of Grandson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Grandson, took place on 2 March 1476, was part of the Burgundian Wars (Burgundy Wars), and resulted in a major defeat for Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.
		On 2 March 1476 the Swiss army approached the forces of Charles near the town of Grandson.
		When the Burgundians met the Swiss at the Battle of Murten (Morat in French) in June 1476, the Swiss annihilated his army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Grandson (957 words)

	MacNeill Family - MacNeills in Battle
		The MacNeils participated at the Battle of Glenlivet in October of 1594.
		In this battle, the Earl of Argyle was sent by King James VI to defeat the Catholic Earls.
		The chief's son, known as Roderick the Peaceful, was killed at the Storming of Quebec in 1759.
	home.pacbell.net /roymc/Battle.htm (307 words)

	Battle continues: Man who began selling cars in '61 plans to keep on (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Battle, one of eight boys, got a lifelong rush for the industry when he went to work in 1950 at 15 for George "Red" Brakefield at Royal Motor Co. in Huntsville.
		Battle said he places more emphasis on making a customer than he does on making a sale.
		Burney Battle walked into the dealership, got a cup of coffee and went to his desk to enjoy his wife's sandwich.
	www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/news/050310/battle1.shtml (692 words)

	[Jeanne d'Arc]>> Battle>Agincourt
		By this stage of the battle, the dead were stacked in heaps and the French woundedlay strewn across the field.
		The battle was fought in the defile formed by the wood of Agincourt and that of Tramecourt, at the northern exit of which the army under d'Albret, constable of France, had placed itself so as to bar the way to Calais against the English forces which had been campaigning on the Somme.
		It is probable that the usual three "battles" were drawn up in line, each with its archers on the flanks and the dismounted men-at-arms in the centre; the archers being thrown forward in wedge-shaped salients, almost exactly as at the Battle of Crécy.
	www.jeanne-darc.dk /p_war/0_battles/agincourt.html (2144 words)

	Latest custody battle: who gets mom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Some of the thorniest custody battles these days are over the care of elderly parents, spouses or grandparents.
		Senior custody battles are being propelled by a number of demographic shifts.
		To prevent bigger battles later, "the main thing that you can do is talk, talk, talk," says Erica Wood, assistant director of the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06229/714277-51.stm (1309 words)

	About Cossacks
		Battle of the White Mountain/Battle of Breitenfeld/Battle of Luetzen
		Malplaquet was the last great battle of the War of the Spanish Succession.
		The battle resulted in 32,000 casualties on the side of the Allies and 12,000 casualties in the French army.
	www.angelfire.com /tv2/siambear50/History_battleofmaalpake.htm (248 words)

	The Battle of Grandson (1476) - A Historical Scenario for Warrior Kings
		Continuing from Grandson, the army encountered the Swiss vanguard foraging for supplies.
		Charles deployed for battle, and sent his archers forward to skirmish with the enemy.
		The battle took place on a broad flat plain, bordered by Lake Neuchatel on the Burgundian right, and by impassable mountains on their left.
	members.shaw.ca /warriorkings/grandsonwk.htm (513 words)

	The Great Bean Shooter War
		Two kids were treated at Columbus Hospital for swallowing their load of beans in the excitement of battle.
		His glasses were taped together with cracked lenses, and he fought on, receiving two more purple hearts; but he bit through his favorite shooter and had trouble with the new one jamming.
		All shooters were confiscated and the remaining bean depots raided, with the contraband beans used for cooking.
	www.virtualnewarknj.com /memories/bloomave/romanbean.htm (582 words)

	The Battle of Clontarf
		The night before the battle, the Vikings were informed that Sigurd had brought a sacred raven banner, woven by his mother, which had the magical properties of ensuring victory for the army if carried before it - but also promising death to its bearers.
		As in most battles of this period, a leader’s example could not honourably be ignored, and men would fight to the death to gain his notice, respect and encouragement.
		Somewhere at this point in the battle, either the Norwegian Prince Anwud or Eric of Denmark fought his way through to the exhausted Murchad, who still managed to throw the attacking Viking to the ground and stab him before he, too, was killed.
	www.doyle.com.au /battleclontarf.htm (5011 words)

	Inventory of the Kemp P. BattleMontgomery Ward Catalog Competition Papers, 1915, 1962-1966
		His father was William Horn Battle (1802-1879) of Louisburg, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill, who was a lawyer, legislator, judge of the North Carolina superior and supreme courts, and trustee and professor of law at the University of North Carolina.
		Their son was William James Battle (1870-1955), University of North Carolina and Harvard student; professor of classics, dean, and acting president of the University of Texas, 1893-1917 and 1920-1955; and professor of classics at the University of Cincinnati, 1917-1920.
		The Kemp P. Battle Montgomery Ward Catalog Competition Papers include correspondence and other papers relating to a competition established by Battle in 1915 for students at the University of North Carolina to write an essay on technological changes reflected in the Montgomery Ward catalogs of 1915, 1965, and 2015.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/htm/01972.html (413 words)

	The Battle of Grandson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Grandson castle on the Northwest shore of Lake Neuchâtel was the key to controlling the mountain passes.
		The Bernese forces occupied Grandson and several surrounding towns, cutting of the passes to Savoy.
		On the 21st he captured the town of Grandson and laid siege to the castle.
	www.housedragonor.org /A&S/BattleGrandson.html (1117 words)

	Josie's brave battle to see grandson born (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Her family have paid tribute to her fight against the cancer which enabled her to be at the birth of her first grandson Cameron who was born to her daughter Lisa last Wednesday at Bradford Royal Infirmary.
		Her fiance David Armstrong said she was very ill but had been overjoyed by the birth and had been the first to hold the youngster.
		"She was there at the birth of her first grandson and she was very proud of him and Lisa.
	archive.thisisbradford.co.uk /1998/07/02/173914.html (371 words)

	The Battle of Grandson- A Historical Refight Using Piquet
		The Battle of Grandson- A Historical Refight Using Piquet
		It must use battle mass formation, counting the appropriate plusses and minuses both when shooting and in melee.
		The battle opens with the Burgundian army on the march spread out in road columns.
	members.shaw.ca /bandofbrothers/grandson.htm (1041 words)

	National Museum of American History: Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But the battle and the national anthem are only part of the story.
		The fifteen red and white stripes and the blue field are made of wool bunting, and the fifteen stars of white cotton.
		Almost a century after the battle, the grandson of the fort's commander, Maj. George Armistead, first lent and then donated the Star-Spangled Banner to the Smithsonian.
	www.si.edu /harcourt/nmah/timeline/03ssbhc.htm (608 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This image shows the military leaders of the united Swiss states being knighted by our french allieds after the battle of Grandson.
		This was the first of the three battles that Charles the Brave of Burgundy lost against the Swiss.
		The outcome of these three battles profoundly influenced the destinity of Europe.
	www.geocities.com /hrordorf/hpage5a.htm (52 words)

	The Battle of Grandson - A Scenario for Days of Knights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In February, 1476, he took the castle at Grandson and hanged the Swiss garrison after it surrendered.
		The battle took place on a broad flat plain, bordered by Lake Geneva.
		Each battle begins in column, as the Burgundians encountered the Swiss while the Burgundians were marching from Grandson.
	members.shaw.ca /kblackley/grandson.htm (472 words)

	Mahabharata Of Vyasa, A Complete Translation By Kisari Mohan Gaguly
		"Sanjaya said, 'Beholding the ruler of the Sindhus, O sire, slain in battle by Partha, Kripa, the son of Saradwat, under the influence of wrath, covered the son of Pandu with a dense shower of arrows.
		All became silent spectators of that superhuman battle between those two human heroes, O king, and of the skill of Daruka in guiding the car.
		The grandson of Sini, then, with shafts made entirely of iron, repeatedly pierced Karna, that chastiser of foes, in all his limbs.
	www.bharatadesam.com /spiritual/mahabharata/mahabharata_07143.php (2254 words)

	Germany in the Late Middle Ages - Knox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But his son Conrad was killed in battle a few years later.
		His illegitimate son Manfred then tried to seize power, nearly succeeded, but also fell in battle.
		Frederick's grandson, often called Conradin, was captured and murdered in 1264, and with him the "nest of vipers" was exterminated.
	www.idbsu.edu /courses/latemiddleages/politics/germany/05.shtml (142 words)

	Samuel Vanleer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Another neighbor, in East Caln Township, was the Culbertson family descended from a Wayne army-buddy and comrade of the Battle of the Boyce.
		The last evidence we have of Van Leers in the military was the battle of Grandson 300 years past--1476.
		Van Leer served at the Battle of Brandywine, was with Wayne on the fateful night of the Battle of Paoli (known as the "Paoli Massacre"), September 20, 1777, and took part in the Germantown campaign.
	www.vanleerplus.org /8samuel.htm (1817 words)

	Old Swiss Confederacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This rare union of rural and urban communes, all of which had the status of imperial immediacy within the Holy Roman Empire, was caused by them all being under pressure by the Habsburg dukes and kings, who once had ruled much of these lands.
		In several battles against Habsburg armies, the Swiss remained victorious and even conquered the rural areas of Glarus and Zug, which became independent members of the confederacy, too.
		Murten, Grandson, Orbe and Echallens, 1475, Berne and Fribourg
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_Swiss_Confederacy (2313 words)

	FIREARMS AND FREEDOM - Switzerland's Secret Strategy For Survival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1386, at the Battle of Sempach, 4000 Austrian knights were defeated by 1 300 Swiss peasants.
		At the Battle of Morat, another French army of 23 000 was destroyed by a surprise attack, with the Swiss killing 10000 French invaders, for the loss of only 410 Swiss.
		After the Battle of Morat, the Swiss infantry were the most renowned in Europe, and deeply sought after as mercenaries.
	www.christianaction.org.za /firearmnews/2002-2_targetswitzerland.htm (3214 words)

	Blog : A battle that goes on inside people.
		He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all.
		The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"
		Most of us will feed both, keeping the battle going for our whole life.
	outpersonals.com /blog/6514/post_28049.html (221 words)

	Catalfamo - Kavalhuna - battlecreekenquirer.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Announcement is made of the engagement of Diane Virginia Catalfamo to Daniel Andrew Kavalhuna, both of Battle Creek, Michigan.
		Diane is the daughter of Tony and Diane Catalfamo of Illinois and Yun Hui Catalfamo of Battle Creek.
		Daniel is the son of Andrew and Nyla Kavalhuna of Battle Creek and grandson of Dale and Ortha Bishop.
	battlecreekenquirer.com /news/stories/20050925/occasions/2205544.html (128 words)

	Athelstan
		A Grandson To Be Proud Of thelstan or Aethelstan, son of Edward the Elder and grandson of Alfred the great, continued in the same fashion as his forebears.
		If Aethelfleda had not died when she did, she probably would have totally eliminated the Danish threat for ever.
		The exact location of this battle is unclear, but is known as the battle of Brunanburgh.
	www.battle1066.com /athel.shtml (282 words)

	BJP pits grandson against Nilangekar
		Nilanga in Maharashtra will be witnessing a clash between a former chief minister and his grandson in the forthcoming assembly polls.
		The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday announced the candidature of Sambhaji Diliprao Patil Nilangekar from Nilanga in Latur district to take on sitting MLA and former chief minister Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar of the Congress.
		Republication or redistribution of PTI content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/sep/22mahaelec1.htm (147 words)

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