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	The Beginning -- Philippi, 1861
		Shut in by the hills of north central Virginia, the village of Philippi, eighteen-year-old seat of Barbour County sprawled pleasantly along the eastern side of the winding Tygarts River.
		This monarch of the river was not alone the pride of Philippi, but the wonder of the whole region, and was a great boon to travelers on the turnpike, who had grown weary of the tedious and uncertain ferry.
		Her vacated home in Philippi suffered the fate of similarly abandoned houses, and was at the mercy of soldiers and civilians.
	www.wvculture.org /history/journal_wvh/wvh13-1.html (3949 words)

	Battle of Philippi Encyclopedia Article @ Karr.net (Karr Network) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Battle of Philippi was the final battle in the Wars of the Second Triumvirate between the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian (the Second Triumvirate) against the forces of Julius Caesar's assassins Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus in 42 BC, at Philippi in Macedonia.
		On the same day of the first battle of Philippi the Republican fleet, patrolling the Ionian Sea was able to intercept and destroy the triumvirs reinforcements (two legions and other troops and supplies led by Domitius Calvinus).
		The Battle of Philippi probably also marked the highest point of Antony's career: at that time he was the most famous Roman general and the senior partner of the Second Triumvirate.
	www.karr.net.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Battle_of_Philippi (2657 words)

	Philippi - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Philippi (Macedonia), city of ancient Macedonia, near modern Kavála, Greece.
		Philippi, Battle of, battle in 42 bc in which Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus fought against the Roman Republic, following the...
		It was the site of a battle in 42 bc in which forces led by Mark Antony and Augustus defeated Marcus Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Philippi.html (80 words)

	Philippi in Roman period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An important event in the history of the city of Philippi was the battle fought in 42 BC outside its walls between the Roman republicans Brutus and Cassius on the one hand, and the avengers of Julius Caesar Octavian and Mark Antony on the other.
		Public buildings such as the 'forum' of Philippi, temples for the Imperial cult, the library, the commercial 'agora', the public baths and the 'palaestra' (wrestling school) were in the southern part.
		The life of the city of Philippi was marked by the visit of the Apostle Paul in 49 AD, who laid the foundations of a flourishing Christian community, the first one on European soil.
	www.macedonian-heritage.gr /HellenicMacedonia/en/C1.9.1.html (219 words)

	Philippi, West Virginia - West Virginia (WV) Cyclopedia
		The first land battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Philippi, was fought at Philippi on June 3, 1861.
		Philippi, WV Philippi, WV is located about: 13 miles northwest of Belington, WV; 15 miles south of Grafton, WV; 22 miles northwest of Buckhannon, WV; 26 miles southeast of Clarksburg, WV and Bridgeport, WV; and 30 miles west of Parsons, WV.
		Philippi, WV is the location of Alderson-Broaddus College (map (http://www.wvamaps.com/maps/index.php?place=Alderson%20Broaddus%20Collegeandstate=WVandlon=-80.0481andlat=39.1581andpop=0andcounty=Barbourandelev=0andscale=3)), established in 1901, formed by merger of two schools established earlier in West Virginia -- Broaddus Female College at Clarksburg, and Alderson Academy, at Alderson, WV.
	www.wvexp.com /index.php/Philippi,_West_Virginia (280 words)

	Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery - Selected Chronology of the Civil War
		Battle of Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing (TN), GEN Albert Sydney Johnston dies (6 Apr.).
		Battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg (MD); Battle of Munfordville (KY).
		Battle of Appomattox (Appomattox Campaign, VA), Lee surrenders Army of Northern Virginia; Battle of Ft. Blakely (AL).
	www.batteryb.com /battles/chronology.html (1504 words)

	Battle of Philippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This battle was also in the famous Shakespearean play Julius Caesar.
		The battle consisted of two engagements in the plain West of the ancient city of Philippi.
		However, at least the XXXVI legion consisted of old Pompeian veterans, enrolled in Caesar's army after the battle of Pharsalus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Philippi (2497 words)

	KAVALA MACEDONIA GREECE INFO
		In spite of armed forces numerically superior and a strong defensive position in the fortified acropolis of Philippi, Brutus and Cassios were defeated, and the death on the battlefield of these two republicans marked the end of the Roman Republic.
		Immediately after the battle Antony settled the first Roman army veterans at Philippi and issued the colony's first locally-cut bronze coinage.
		Philippi prospered greatly during the 5th and 6th centuries A.D. as a place of pilgrimage associated with the memory and worship of St. Paul.
	www.macedonia.info /philippi.htm (872 words)

	Philippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After the battle of Philippi, in 42 B.C., the city became a Roman colony and its importance was stressed by the fact that it was located on the Via Egnatia.
		A landmark in the history of Philippi was the year A.D 49 or 50, when Apostole Paul visited the city and established there the first Christian Church of Europe.
		The Agora was the adminstrative centre of Philippi in the Roman period.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21118a/e211ra01.html (775 words)

	City of Philippi (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Philippi, population 2,870, is the county seat of Barbour County, located in the north central portion of West Virginia on U.S. Routes 119 and 250.
		Chartered in 1844, Philippi is the site of the first land battle of the Civil War, an event commemorated in the annual "Blue and Gray" historical re-enactment.
		Philippi has been designated an "All West Virginia Community" by the state Chamber of Commerce each year for more than a decade, and in 1991 won first place in the All-West Virginia Community for cities of its size.
	www.philippi.org.cob-web.org:8888 (138 words)

	Ancient Philippi, Greece
		Philippi (Ancient Greek Φιλιπποι, Philippoi) is a city in eastern Macedonia, founded by Philip II in 356 BC.
		The subsequent development of Christianity in Philippi is well-attested, notably by a letter from Polycarp of Smyrna addressed to the community in Philippi around 160, and by funerary inscriptions.
		Seven churches were constructed in Philippi between the mid-4th century and the end of the 6th, some of which competed in size and decoration with the most beautiful buildings in Thessalonica, or even those of Constantinople.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /greece/philippi.htm (1775 words)

	Campaign for Western Virginia
		One week before the battle of Rich Mountain, Lincoln recognized Governor Pierpont in an address to the first session of the wartime Congress.
		Of equal importance, the vital Baltimore and Ohio Railway was lost to the Confederacy.
		But in a freakish circumstance, he would be visiting the field with Jefferson Davis at the Battle of Seven Pines, and step in for a wounded General Joseph E. Johnston.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/museum/63/battles/west/wv.html (3956 words)

	Philippi West Virginia
		Philippi was the capital of the province of Macedonia.
		In 42 BC it was the site of the Battle of Philippi, the final battle between the forces of Marcus Antonius and Octavian Augustus and theforces of Cassius and Marcus Junius Brutus, Julius Caesar 'sassassins.
		Having been guided to Philippi by a vision (according to the Bible), Paul and his companion Silas preached the gospel and formed thefirst church in Europe.
	www.lottery-news.net /dust3699-philippi_west_virginia.html (687 words)

	Philippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After the defeat of Brutus and Cassius, Philippi was further enlarged and settled by Roman veterans of the battle of Philippi (42 BCE) and later by soldiers loyal to the defeated Marcus Antonius in the battle of Actium (31 BCE).
		After the battle of Philippi, Antonius and Octavius made Philippi a Roman colony and renamed it Colonia Julia Philippensis in honor of Julius Caesar (see Acts 16:12).
		After the battle of Actium, in honor of Octavius (Augustus), the name was expanded to become Colonia Augusta Julia Philippensis (Finegan, Light from the Ancient Past, 2.350).
	www.abu.nb.ca /courses/Pauline/images/PhilipImages.htm (208 words)

	Historic Preservation of American Civil War Battlefields
		During this battle, Union troops took command of the bridge and used it as a barracks.
		Historic District: The City of Philippi was the site of the first land battle of the Civil War on June 3, 1861.
		Philippi is home to many historic sites, as well as a historical museum containing Civil War-era artifacts.
	www.civilwar.org /CWDT/CWDTBrowse.php?siteID=469 (185 words)

	Barbour County West Virginia
		The battle of Philippi began on the bridge and continued south on the main street of the town.
		The Covered Bridge was important to both the Union and Confederate troops as the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike opened the passage of troops and supplies to both sides and gave access to the railroad at Webster.
		The battle is often called the “Philippi Races” as Confederate troops fled south quickly and the town was occupied by Union forces.
	www.barbourcountywveda.org /stop4.cfm (143 words)

	Philippians
		The cruel treatment of Paul at Philippi, his reaction to it, and the charm of his personal fervor seemed to knit a bond of profound love between him and the church.
		The devotion of the Philippian church caused Paul to rejoice, and since Epaphroditus, who had brought their aid to him, was about to return from Rome to Philippi, the apostle had an opportunity to send them this letter of thanks (Philippians 4:18).
		The Battle of Philippi was fought in ___________ B.C. Paul visited Philippi for the first time on his ___________ mission tour.
	www.oldpaths.com /Archive/Southern/Paul/1901/phil.html (678 words)

	Philippi
		On the night of June 3, 1861, the first land battle of the Civil War involving organized troops took place at Philippi, about 15 miles south of Grafton.
		While no one was killed in the battle, the Confederates suffered several severe wounds necessitating the first amputations of the Civil War, one each by Union and Confederate surgeons.
		The Federal strategy at Philippi included what was probably the first employment of the railroad to effect the convergence of divergent forces upon an enemy in world history.
	www.wvhumanities.org /philippi.htm (290 words)

	Philippi Bridge
		The Philippi Covered Bridge dates back to 1852, when the General Assembly of Virginia authorized the construction of the Beverly to Fairmont Tumpike.
		In Philippi, the western section of the village abuts sharply against steep slopes.
		The battle, while it was the first land battle of the Civil War, was only a minor action.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/museum/63/battles/west/philippi.html (733 words)

	Philippi -- Paul's "Thanks-You" Letter
		Matters soon came to a crisis and the forces of the Second Triumvirate defeated Cassius and Brutus at the Battle of Philippi.
		After landing at the Neopolis seaport, he made the short journey to Philippi, “the chief city of the port of Macedonia.” The city was by then a Roman colony (Acts 16:12).
		Because Philippi was not a commercial city, Paul found few Jews and no synagogue—only a small “place of prayer” outside the city by the riverside.
	www.heraldmag.org /2002/02jf_7.htm (2268 words)

	Battle of Philippi
		Having been detailed on detached duty in Monongalia County, I did not reach Grafton until the morning of the 28th of May, having passed through Fairmont on the previous evening when Colonel Kelley's forces were supposed to be somewhere between Farmington and Barracksville, advancing on Colonel Porterfield's position at Grafton.
		When I reported to Colonel Porterfield on the morning of the 28th, he was breaking camp to fall back to Philippi, which place we reached about nightfall the same day.
		The forces in Philippi at this time consisted of seven companies of infantry armed with altered army muskets.
	www.wvculture.org /history/civilwar/philippi01.html (958 words)

	The Battle of Philippi
		The Battle of Philippi or "The Philippi Races" was fought as part of the Operations in Western Virginia Campaign.
		Although the Confederate flight was seen as a debacle, and Porterfield lost his command, the Confederates did retain most of their troops, and the Union attempt to capture the entire force in one swoop failed.
		The Union victory in a relatively bloodless battle propelled the young McClellan into the national spotlight, and he would soon be given command of all Union armies.
	www.mycivilwar.com /battles/610603.htm (988 words)

	Battle of Philippi
		The Battle of Philippi was fought on the morning of June 3rd, 1861 and was the first land battle of the Civil War.
		Leroy Parker Daingerfield was born in Frederick County Va., December 14, 1829 and was in the Confederate Army at the Battle of Philippi.
		Was the first soldier in the Civil War to be operated upon and considering the present day methods of operations, and what happened at that time, he must have been an iron man to have stood the ordeal.
	www.wvculture.org /history/civilwar/philippi03.html (546 words)

	Philippi, Greece
		Although the Apostle Paul first set foot in Europe at Neapolis (Kavála) on his first missionary journey, it was at Philippi, 15km/9mi northwest of Kavála on the road to Dráma, that he established the first Christian community in Europe.
		The place is best known for the battle of Philippi in 42 B.C., in which Octavian (later the Emperor Augustus) and Antony defeated Caesar's murderers, Brutus and Cassius.
		Philippi grew in importance as a result of its situation on the Via Egnatia, which ran from the Adriatic to Constantinople, and at the beginning of the fourth century it became the see of a bishop.
	www.planetware.com /kavala/philippi-gr-mac-phil.htm (249 words)

	Battle of Philippi Races - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Philippi, also called The Philippi Races, was fought on June 3, 1861, in and around Philippi, Virginia (now West Virginia) as part of the Operations in Western Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War.
		On June 2, the two forces departed by train to converge on Philippi—Kelley from the south and Dumont from the north—to execute a double envelopment of the 800 recruits commanded by Confederate Colonel George A. Porterfield.
		The Union victory in a relatively bloodless battle propelled the young General McClellan into the national spotlight, and he would soon be given command of all Union armies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Philippi_Races (737 words)

	The Philippi Covered Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		he Philippi Bridge is one of the most historic bridge is West Virginia.
		Built in 1852, it is one of the oldest covered bridges in the state and the country.
		The City of Philippi uses the bridge as part of the city seal.
	www.gribblenation.com /wvpics/philippi (181 words)

	CliffsNotes::Julius Caesar:Book Summary and Study Guide
		He is one of the triumvirs, and he and Octavius defeat Brutus and Cassius at Philippi.
		Brutus defeats Octavius’ forces in the first battle at Philippi, but loses the second battle and commits suicide rather than be taken prisoner.
		He is defeated by Antony at the first battle of Philippi, and he commits suicide when he mistakenly believes that Brutus has been defeated.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-43,pageNum-6.html (540 words)

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