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	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Battle.
		A skirmish or battle between Mahomet and Abu Sofian (chief of the Koreishites) before Medi’na; so called because the “prophet” had a moat dug before the city to keep off the invaders; and in the moat much of the fighting took place.
		After the battle more than 700 gilt spurs (worn by French nobles) were gathered from the field.
		Thus, “The first stroke is half the battle,” that is, the way in which the battle is begun half determines what the end will be.
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	Battle of the Spurs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Battle of the Spurs or Battle of Guinegate August 16 1513.
		As part of the Holy League under the on-going Italian Wars, English troops under Henry VIII defeated a French army under Marshal La Palice.
		Called "Battle of the Spurs" because of the haste of the French to leave the battlefield, it took place at Guinegate (now Enguinegatte, France).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Spurs (139 words)

	Wikipedia: 1513
		August 16 - Battle of the Spurs (or Battle of Guinegate).
		September 9 - Battle of Flodden, King James IV of Scotland defeated and killed by an English army under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.
		October 7 - Battle of La Motta - Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/1/15/1513.html (262 words)

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		Ten years after the battle of Cassel, Ghent set the example of general opposition; this example was promptly followed, and the chief towns flew to arms.
		But the duchy suffered nothing by this event, for the militia of the country had not followed their duke and his nobles to the war; and a national council was now established, consisting of eleven persons, two of whom were ecclesiastics, three barons, two knights, and four commoners.
		Nine months after the battle of Morat he re-entered Lorraine, at the head of an army, not composed of his faithful militia of the Netherlands, but of those mercenaries in whom it was madness to place trust.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/10583/10583-8.txt (17683 words)

	Chapter Bath <i>to</i> Battus paieront of B by Brewer's Phrase & Fable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Battle of the Whips The Scythian slaves once rose in rebellion against their masters, and many a bloody encounter followed.
		Battle (Sarah), who considered whist the business of life and literature one of the relaxations.
		When a young gentleman, of a literary turn, said to her he had no objection to unbend his mind for a little time by taking a hand with her, Sarah was indignant, and declared it worse than sacrilege to speak thus of her noble occupation.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1167/19726/2.html (771 words)

	BREWER: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 103-104 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Battle Professor Creasy says there are fifteen decisive battles; that is, battles which have decided some political change:
		Battle of the Spurs (1302), in which the allied citizens of Ghent and Bruges won a famous victory over the chivalry of France under the walls of Courtray.
		In English history the Battle of Guinegate (1513) is so called, “because the French spurred their horses to flight, almost as soon as they came in sight of the English troops.”
	kenji.cnu.ac.kr /my/references/phrase/data/103.html (1310 words)

	John HUSSEY (1º B. Hussey of Old Sleaford)
		On 12 Jun 1481 John Hussey was appointed surveyor of the lordships in Lincolnshire held by the Duke of Clarence.
		On 16 Jun 1487 he fought in the three-hour Battle of Stoke in which the invasion of England by Lambert Simnel was defeated.
		John Hussey was knighted in 1497 at the Battle of Blackheath near London.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/JohnHussey(1BSleaford).htm (2599 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: League of Cambrai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Cardona marched to relieve the city in early April, and was decisively beaten in the resulting Battle of Ravenna; the death of Foix during the fighting, however, left the French under the command of Jacques de la Palice, who, unwilling to continue the campaign without direct orders from Louis, contented himself with thoroughly sacking Ravenna.
		English troops under Henry VIII attacked La Palice at the Battle of Guinegate, scattered the French forces, and proceeded to sack Therouanne.
		In the resulting Battle of La Motta, the Venetian army was decisively defeated, with many prominent noblemen cut down outside the city walls as they attempted to flee.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=League_of_Cambrai (3428 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Germany
		In 833 the emperor was captured by his sons at the battle of Luegenfeld (field of lies) near Colmar.
		In a battle near Goellheim, fought between Albert and Adolf, Albert, aided by Adolf's numerous enemies, defeated the king, who was killed.
		In 1444 the Swiss at the battle of St. Jakob on the Birs, not far from Basle, by their extraordinary courage defeated his French mercenaries, called Armagnacs, and thus frustrated his schemes for restoring the control of the Hapsburgs over the Swiss League.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06484b.htm (20891 words)

	Chronology from 1501 to 1600
		The Battle of Flodden Field September 9 just south of the Scottish border ends in victory for an English army sent by Henry VIII under the earl of Surrey.
		The bloody Battle of Uppsala April 6 (Good Friday) gives Christian a narrow victory over the Swedish patriots, the Danish fleet arrives in May, Christian lays siege to Stockholm, and Christina surrenders September 7 on the promise of a general amnesty.
		The Battle of Villalar April 23 gives the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V a victory over the insurgent communeros and ends the last Spanish resistance to absolutism.
	www.b17.com /family/lwp/chronology/1501_1600.html (8842 words)

	1513 Definition / 1513 Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Events 1000 - Battle of Swold 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III 1513 - In the Battle of Flodden Field James IV of Scotland was defeated.
		[click for more] - Battle of Flodden FieldThe Battle of Flodden or Flodden Field was fought in northern England on September 9, 1513, between an invading Scots army under King James IV and an English army commanded by Thomas Howard....
		When his father was killed at the Battle of Sauchieburn on June 11, 1488 (or possibly assassinated a few hours later) the fifteen-year-old James took the throne and was crowned at Scone on June 24.
	www.elresearch.com /1513 (1478 words)

	1513 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
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		Yet those knives are as though they had just to show me. Again it was quite true and here I may remark that my experience lightning on whom or on whose clothing there was not some trace of its place is enchanted.
	www.city-search.org /15/1513.html (530 words)

	Albrecht Drer / The Battle of Guinegate (Triumphal Arch of Maximilian) / 1515
		Albrecht Drer / The Battle of Guinegate (Triumphal Arch of Maximilian) / 1515
		The Battle of Guinegate (Triumphal Arch of Maximilian)
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	1513 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		April - Juan Ponce de Leon and his expedition become the first Europeans known to visit Florida.
		June 6 - Italian Wars: Battle of Novara - Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan.
		September 9 - Battle of Flodden Field, King James IV of Scotland defeated and killed by an English army under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1513 (413 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Burgundy
		But Philip had the armies of his nephew, King Charles VI, march against them and they lost the battle of Roosebeke (1382); then, after continuing the struggle for two years longer, they were finally obliged to submit in 1385.
		Meanwhile Maximilian vigorously repulsed the French in the battle of Guinegate (1479).
		Duped by Louis XI they concluded with him the second Peace of Arras (1482) which gave the hand of their Princess Margaret to the Dauphin, with Artois and Burgundy for her dower, and Maximilian was deprived of his children who were provided with a regency council.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03068a.htm (3469 words)

	Planet Mirror - pg - 3 - 8 - 4 - 3840 - free downloads
		The war was pushed on with great vigour: the battle of Agnadello (14th May, 1509) cleared the King's way towards Venice; Louis was received with open arms by the North Italian towns, and pushed forward to within eight of Venice.
		Montmorency, however, caught him at Dreux; and in the battle that ensued, the Marshal of France, Saint-Andre, perished; Conde was captured by the Catholics, Montmorency by the Huguenots.
		Elizabeth did what she could to support Henri of Navarre; he had the good fortune to win the battle of Contras, in which the Duc de Joyeuse, one of the favourites of Henri III., was defeated and killed.
	public.planetmirror.com /pub/pg/3/8/4/3840 (18171 words)

	WHKMLA : War of Burgundian Succession, 1477-1482
		Duke Charles "the Bold" of Burgundy died in the Battle of Nancy in 1477.
		Future Emperor Maximilan, with a Burgundian army, defeated the French in the (First) Battle of Guinegate in 1479, expelling the French from Hainaut.
		The nobles and merchant cities of the Low Countries used the Habsburg-Valois conflict to attempt to regain the autonomy the Burgundian Dukes had infringed upon.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/15cen/burgsucc14771482.html (186 words)

	Illustrious People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		At times pious, at other times antipapal, he thought he might win financial help from the German Church if he were a rival pope; but in the end he let himself be dissuaded from this by Ferdinand II the Catholic, of Aragon.
		Turning away from his French alliance, he entered into a new Holy League (1511) with the pope, Spain, England, and their allies; with the help of England he scored a victory against the French in the Battle of the Spurs (1513), while his allies concentrated on regaining Milan and Lombardy.
		The French were victorious in Italy at the Battle of Marignano in 1515, and Maximilian's efforts to re-win Milan failed miserably.
	www.wga.hu /database/glossary/illustri/maximili.html (1209 words)

	World of Quotes - Today in History for August 7
		Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI Type:
		Battle at Ponts-the-C, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici
		Battle of Boyac ; Bol¡var defeats Spanish in Colombia
	www.worldofquotes.com /history/8_7/1 (249 words)

	Battle of the Spurs - TheBestLinks.com - Henry VIII, 1513, Italian Wars, Holy League, ...
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	Hofkirche - Memorial Tomb for Maximilian I. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		After defeating an army of 30.000 men near the French village Guinegate, a large portion of Hennegau including the imperial city Cambrais was won back.
		France made a claim for the lands of Burgundy that Maximilian was able to ward off through his victory at Guinegate.
		Maximilian had gotten off his horse and fought and won against the French riders by foot with the Flemish men.
	www.hofkirche.at /en/grabdenkmal/relief2.shtml (111 words)

	Holland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		They not only supplied all his wants, but enabled him to maintain the war against Louis XI., whom they defeated at the battle of Guinegate in Picardy, and forced to make peace on more favorable terms than they had hoped for.
		But these wealthy provinces were not more zealous for the national defence than bent on the maintenance of their local privileges, which Maximilian little understood, and sympathized with less.
		Charles's dominions in the Netherlands suffered severely from the naval operations during the war; for the French cruisers having, on repeated occasions, taken, pillaged, and almost destroyed the principal resources of the herring fishery, Holland and Zealand felt considerable distress, which was still further augmented by the famine which desolated these provinces in 1524.
	www.blackmask.com /thatway/books139c/holland.htm (20405 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) (185 BC-159 BC)
		Into the same category falls a comedy by Bebel, demonstrating the superiority of humanistic culture over Medieval learning.
		Into these plays important current events are introduced, such as the war of Charles VII against Naples, the Turkish peril, the political situation after the Battle of Guinegate (1513), etc. The best-known of these dialogue writers were Jacob Locher, Johann von Kitzcher, and Hetwann Schottenius Hessus.
		Another hybrid class of drama was the allegorical festival plays, which were fitted out as show-pieces after the fashion of the Italian mask comedies.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=395 (2840 words)

	August 7 - Today in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		1479 - Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI 1485 - Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales
		1620 - Battle at Ponts-the-C, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici
		1819 - Battle of Boyac ; Bol¡var defeats Spanish in Colombia
	magic-city-news.com /printer_1892.shtml (1357 words)

	August 16 - Today in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		1513 - Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian and Henry III beat France
		1777 - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt 1780 - British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC 1794 - Hungarian revolutionary Ign c Martinovics arrested in Vienna
		1864 - Battle of Front Royal VA (Guard Hill)
	magic-city-news.com /printer_1928.shtml (1312 words)

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