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	Saxony
		As was mentioned above, the Margravate of Meissen had been founded by the Emperor Otto I. In 1089 it came into the possession of the Wettin family, who from 1247 also owned the eastern part of the Margravate of Thuringia.
		John Frederick was defeated and captured by Charles V at the Battle of Mühlberg on the Elbe, 24 April, 1547.
		At the Battle of Leipzig (16-18 October, 1813), when Napoleon was completely defeated, the greater part of the Saxon troops deserted to the allied forces.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/saxony.html (7922 words)

	Battle of Moys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moys – Rossbach – Breslau – Leuthen – Krefeld – Domstadtl – Zorndorf – Hochkirch – Bergen – Kay – Minden – Kunersdorf – Hoyerswerda – Maxen – Meissen – Landshut – Warburg – Liegnitz – Torgau – Villinghausen – Kolberg – Burkersdorf – Lutterberg – Freiberg
		The Battle of Moys was a battle fought on September 7, 1757 during the Seven Years' War.
		The battle was fought near Liegnitz, in Silesia, in present day Poland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Moys (174 words)

	Albrechtsburg Meissen: Timetable
		Establishment of the Margraviate of Meissen and appointment of a margrave, who governed the state on behalf of the King.
		Establishment by Emperor Otto I of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg together with the bishoprics of Meissen, Zeitz and Merseburg.
		In gratitude for his support of King Siegmund in the battle against the Hussites, Friedrich the Warlike (Friedrich der Streitbare, 1381-1428) is invested with the Duchy of Saxony Wittenberg, with which the electoral privileges were associated.
	www.albrechtsburg-meissen.de /index.php?id=45&L=1 (960 words)

	The Battle of Stillman's Run / ComPortOne of Rockford Illinois
		The Battle Ground Memorial Association of Stillman Valley was immediately organized by the citizens of Stillman Valley, and incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois.
		Wilson and his colleagues of the House and Senator Henry Andrus of the Senate, the bill passed the House with but eight opposing votes and the Senate without opposition, and on the 11th of May 1901, was signed by the Governor and became a law.
		Battle Ground Park is a beautiful spot with its well kept lawn, its walks and terraces, and its trees and flowers.
	www.comportone.com /cpo/genealogy/articles/localhistory/BattleofStillmanRun.htm (3458 words)

	The Grand Commander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The battle terminated, as usual in those conflicts of mutual hatred, in a horrible butchery, hardly any of the patriot army being left to tell the tale of their disaster.
		The French accused him of losing the battle of Moncontour by his impatience to engage, yet they acknowledged that to his masterly conduct it was owing that their retreat was effected in so successful, and even so brilliant a manner.
		The battle of Mookerheyde had, for the present, quite settled the question of land relief, but it was possible to besiege the besiegers with the waves of the ocean.
	www.americanpresbyterianchurch.org /new_page_6.htm (21021 words)

	Hussite Battles and significant events
		Sigismund in a fit of pique during the battle ordered the Moravian contingent to attack the Hussites strongest point because their leader had attempted to dissuade the Emperor from a frontal assault.
		There is an alternative deployment for this battle where the Orebite cavalry are either side of the Ballast wagons and it is they who charge into the chaos caused by the wagons impact on the Praguer centre.
		The final battle at Cesky Brod fulfilled a comment of Sigismund after one of his numerous previous defeats "that the Bohemians could be overcome only by Bohemians." The role of the Hussites however continued as many of the their soldiers found employment amongst their previous enemies.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /matthaywood/main/Hussite_Battles_and_Significant_events.htm (3626 words)

	The Battle of Tannenberg or Grunwald in 1410
		Seeing, however, that a very fierce and bloody battle was taking place, they abandoned the captives and spoils, and threw themselves into the vortex of the battle to help their own, who at that moment were fighting with less intensity.
		During the fierce battle between the two armies, the Polish King Wladyslaw stood nearby observing the courage of the fighters, and having put his trust in God's mercy, he confidently expected the retreat and final rout of the enemies, whom he saw shattered and defeated in many places.
		It was from one of sixteen regiments of the Teutonic army that Kokeritz, a knight from Meissen, attempted to attack the king and died because of this thoughtless rather than brave deed.
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/sources/dlugosz.htm (3499 words)

	Battle of Stalingrad
		For a previous generation, the Battle of Stalingrad, which began in the summer of 1942 and ended in January 1943, had a similar importance.
		The Battle of Stalingrad had a different character since most noncombatants were evacuated across the Volga before the worst fighting began.
		Beevor's biggest complaint is over the tendency to reduce an enormous battle involving contrary social forces into a duel, especially by the final scene in which the Nazi sniper reveals himself inadvertently to Zaitsev: "After a long moment, there is the sound of a coat flapping in the wind.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/Battle_of_Stalingrad.htm (4757 words)

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		Where arms were unavailing, the greatest service was rendered by the friendship of the free cities, whose affections he had gained, by the double ties of policy and religion; and, as long as he should maintain his superiority in the field, he might reckon on every thing from their zeal.
		By the arrangement concerted between these princes at Halle, after the battle of Leipzig, the conquest of Bohemia was intrusted to the Elector of Saxony, while the King reserved for himself the attack upon the territories of the League.
		"Battles enough have been fought," was his answer to those who advised him to attack the King, "it is now time to try another method." Wallenstein's well-founded reputation required not any of those rash enterprises on which younger soldiers rush, in the hope of gaining a name.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext04/fs12w10.txt (21019 words)

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		He records whose arms they were and who bore the arms at the battle, the personal arms and family history of the bearer, and occasionally his fate.
		He fled from the battle of Tannenberg to the village of "Wyechnyow" where he was captured by the Poles, who "cut off his miserable head".
		On the Polish side were Jan Jardgniewski of the house of Oria or Szaszdor; Bartosz (III) Wezemborg, castellan of Nakel in 1438; and Pobrogost Kolenski of the house of Nalencz, castellan of the episcopal castle of Kamien in 1427.
	www.s-gabriel.org /heraldry/lothar/tannenberg.txt (5471 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Martin Luther
		The wordy battle was between Carlstadt and Eck on the subject of Divine grace and human free will.
		He was barely allowed to publish the Bull in Meissen (21 Sept.), Merseburg (25 Sept.), and Brandenburg (29 Sept.), and a resistance almost uniform greeted him in all other parts of Germany.
		Ulrich Zasius, of Freiburg, and Christoph Scheurl, of Nurnberg, the two most illustrious jurists of Germany, early friends and supporters of Luther, with statesmen's prevision detected the political complexion of affairs, could not fail to notice the growing religious anarchy, and, hearing the distant rumblings of the Peasants' War, abandoned his cause.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09438b.htm (16777 words)

	Chronology: the ‘Long (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Battle of the Nile, a British fleet commanded by Nelson destroys Napoleon’s fleet.
		Battle of Salamanca, defeat of French in Spain by army commanded by the Duke of Wellington.
		Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to St Helena.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~mercerb/18thC.html (1512 words)

	Germany - Leipsic To Dresden Via Meissen
		Seen from the Elbe, Meissen looms up half town, half fortress, with the Ancient Albrechtsburg dominating the mass, and the spires of the Dom soaring against the sky; and you exclaim, "It's the Mont St. Michel of Germany." It was more than this to Germany and to the Anglo-Saxon race.
		Escorted to Meissen, he was placed in a room still shown to the public, and politely but firmly informed that here he must abide until gold was forthcoming.
		Blankenburg and Wernigerode, the Gegensteine, the Teufelsmauer (Devil's Wall); the ruined ancestral castle of Anhalt, and Regenstein cliff with the rock-cut foundations of a castle built by Henry the Fowler in 919, all lie in this region.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles23/old-countries-14.shtml (4345 words)

	The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles - Hand-Painted Scenic Meissen Porcelain from 1710 to 1880 by Frederick ...
		This led to the establishment of a porcelain manufactory which was moved to Albrechtsburg in Meissen in 1710 and began producing porcelain in 1715.
		The decoration of Meissen porcelain was, supposedly, limited to painters employed by and in the Meissen factory.
		The Meissen factory has overcome the vicissitudes of war, economic depression, poor management and creative mediocrity to remain, arguably, the finest porcelain manufacturer in the world.
	www.journalofantiques.com /Feb06/feature.html (2435 words)

	History of Friedrich II by Thomas Carlyle: SECOND SILESIAN WAR, IMPORTANT EPISODE IN THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE Chapter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Meissen [where they make the china, only fifty miles from me, and twenty from Dresden], let that be the Bridge, now that you have got victual.
		The real direct Highway from Meissen to Dresden is on the other side of the Elbe, and keeps by the River-bank, a fine level road; but on this western side, where Leopold now is, the road is inland, and goes with a bend.
		It was the ruin of their battle; a fatal hollaing before you are out of the woods.
	carlyle.classicauthors.net /Friedrich/Friedrich166.html (3153 words)

	Hans Philip
		Hans Philipp was born on March 17, 1917 in Meissen in Saxony.
		Later during the Battle of Britain, Hans Philipp was made the Staffelkapitan of 4./JG 54.
		There he battled the growing menace of the 8th Air Force and continued to score victories as his duties allowed.
	www.jg54greenhearts.com /Philip.htm (613 words)

	Arms and Armor in the Age of the Musketeer: Weapons of the 17th Century
		Though daggers and swords were important during battle, they were not the only weapons that soldiers had to rely on.
		The carbine was a fire-arm that was prominent in battle.
		They were still used in battle and were very effective weapons, proving why they had been in use for centuries.
	users.wpi.edu /~jforgeng/17cIQP/weapon.html (5012 words)

	The Margraves of Meissen and Landgraves of Thuringia
		When in 1291 died the king Rudolf of Habsburg and shortly after it Frederick Tuta, Frederick used the favour of the hour and achieved the Mark Meissen, before it could draw in a new king as settled len of Reich.
		Frederick forced its father with force of arms, to resign (8.Januar 1307) and defeated together with his brother Diezmannthe king in the battle near Luckau at the 31.Mai 1307.
		After Diezmann was killed during a fair in the Thomas church in Leipzig, Frederick governed alone in the Mark Meissen and Thuringia.
	www.die-sachsen-kommen.de /en/land.htm (628 words)

	February 1938 Herald of Christ's Kingdom
		It is here on the field of desire that the battle is waged between the new creature and,the old man. Here is where the battle is fought for leadership; here is where the shield of faith must quench the fiery darts (burning lusts) of the Adversary.
		The battle in which we are engaged will not be a draw, but the side which has the active support of the will is the side that will win.
		The understanding Christian does not complain of the weakness of the flesh or of the hardness of the battle, for he realizes that these are the means of trial and testing necessary to our growth; rather should we thank God for the privilege of overcoming the flesh and the world.
	www.heraldmag.org /archives/1938_2.htm (9269 words)

	SYW Chronology 1759
		A 24000-man army of Hanoverians, Hessians, Brunswickers, and English led by Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick attacks a French and Saxon force of 35000 commanded by the Duc de Broglie with the intent of capturing Frankfurt.
		After the battle Frederick temporarily turns active command over to his brother, Prince Henry, and actually contemplates suicide before coming to his senses.
		On the night of 12-13 of September, General Wolfe’s troops manage to land upstream from Quebec and form line of battle on a field known as the Plains of Abraham.
	www.sevenyearswarassociation.com /Reference/SYWChron1759.html (1457 words)

	The Black Hawk War and Stillman's Run - Stillman Valley, Ogle County, Illinois / Midwest History / ComPortOne of ...
		Many bloody battles were fought and Black Hawk had the glory of personally killing 13 or the enermy's bravest warriors.
		During the battle in the twilight of the evening such shouts as "Halr and fight" and "For God's sake don't leave us" was heard.
		He was the only veteran of the battle to attend the dedication of the Soldier's Monument in 1902.
	www.comportone.com /cpo/genealogy/articles/localhistory/BlackHawkWar.htm (5931 words)

	Battle of Stalingrad
		The Battle of Stalingrad has a different character since most noncombatants had been evacuated across the Volga before the worst fighting began.
		So I understood that any book on the subject would be focused more on the battle itself rather than the texture of everyday life under siege.
		What this fails to explain, however, is the determination of the Soviets to fight against overwhelming odds, while the same exact patriotic call to arms fell upon deaf ears in 1917.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/fascism_and_war/Stalingrad.htm (5176 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Kändler, Johann Joachim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He worked in Dresden with the court sculptor Benjamin Thomae (1662–1751) from 1723 and during this period was involved in the decoration of the Grünes Gewölbe in the castle.
		In 1730 he was appointed court sculptor by Frederick-Augustus I, Elector of Saxony, and in June 1731 was employed at the Meissen Porcelain Factory as a modeller.
		The battle was fought over the surface of the factory’s wares where moulded detail, initially limited to spouts and handles, gradually invaded the surface of the wares thus reducing the flat areas available for the painters to display their skills.
	www.artnet.com /library/04/0456/T045651.asp (395 words)

	Wikinfo \| Rulers of Saxony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He was succeeded by the Margrave Frederick of Meissen and Thuringia, of the Wettin Dynasty.
		The elder, Ernest, inherited Northern Meissen, Southern Thuringia, and Wittenberg, along with the Electoral title.
		In 1547, following Emperor Charles V's victory at the Battle of Mühlberg, Wittenberg and the Electoral dignity were transferred to the Albertine line.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Elector_of_Saxony (421 words)

	Battle Of The Year - the annual international bboying crew contest - est. 1990
		in the first semi final battle "incredible syndicate" won against"stylissimo" the second semi final battle was won by the favourites and local heroes "rocking attack" from stuttgart who battled against "the bandit crew".
		the final battle between "rocking attack" and "incredible syndicate" featured some incredible power move combinations and one hand ninetynine variations and finally was won by "rocking attack".
		in the final battle the "five amox" won against "mission impossible" which later on were disqualified for the reason that it was a mixed crew consisting of different crews and some of their dancers already took part in other national battle of the year eliminations before.
	www.battleoftheyear.net /worldwide/print.php?language=en&mID=20 (1305 words)

	The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - LCMS e-News
		During an expedition against hostile Persians in 363 he was mortally wounded in a battle at Ctesiphon, the Persian capital.
		Theosophy regards reality as one basic, eternal principle beyond human understanding yet attainable with help from secret divine wisdom transmitted by "masters" or "mahatmas." Although Theosophy has been influential in popularizing Asian religion in the West, it is regarded by Christian orthodoxy as a heresy akin to the basic beliefs of the ancient heresy Gnosticism.
		After attending the Fuerstenschule of Saint Afra at Meissen, he entered the University of Leipzig where he was given a position in 1823.
	www.lcms.org /ca/www/enews/forward.asp?m=1299 (1000 words)

	Beer Stein Article - “‘Royal Vienna’ Steins”
		Much more sophisticated and extravagant mythological, battle and genre scenes were also produced but are quite rare.
		He is known for decorating in both the Meissen and Vienna styles.
		His unique monogram, a figural lamb over the word Dresden, was used on bodies with either the crossed swords Meissen mark or blue beehive mark.
	www.beerstein.net /articles/bsj-5f.htm (926 words)

	Aces of the Luftwaffe - Heinz Nacke
		Heinz Nacke was born on 22 December 1909 at Ullendorf in the Meissen region of Sachsen.
		He operated during the Battle of France and gained his initial success on 12 May 1940, when he shot down a French Morane fighter.
		Nacke participated in the Battle of Britain with considerable success.
	www.luftwaffe.cz /nacke.html (337 words)

	Danzig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Martin Remus was a pastor at St Mary's Church (Marienkirche) in Danzig no later that 1595 and went to spread the Lutheran message.
		Martin Remus' birth place in Meissen, Saxony in 1566.
		He was also one of the heads of the Smalkaldic League (of German Princes), which was inimical to the emperor and Catholicism.
	www.cba.hawaii.edu /remus/genes/wprussia/Danzig.htm (400 words)

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