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	The Roland Comic: News and Updates
		Despite his losses, Charlemagne carries the day in battle against the Emir; Saragossa is conquered; Roland is laid to rest; and Ganelon is tried, drawn and quartered, and thirty of his kinsmen hang.
		There is no greater grief than the grief of kings and nations for their heroes lost in battles hard to bear.
		The morning following the attack on the rear-guard at Rencesvals, the amassed armies of Islam disembark on the shores of the Ebro, the timely fruition of a plea sent seven years earlier by the King of Saragossa to Baligant the Emir, the Supreme Pagan Warlord, to deliver him from Charlemagne.
	www.terramajor.com /roland/rolandnews.html (907 words)

	The Saragossa Manuscript : DVD
		Enter a dazzling, mysterious world of the supernatural courtesy of "The Saragossa Manuscript," a magical text discovered during the Napoleonic Wars by a pair of opposing soldiers.
		In the middle of a battle in Spain during the Napoleonic wars, two soldiers from opposite sides are suddenly entranced by a manuscript.
		This book fascinates its reader so much the deafening sounds of the surrounding battle disappear as he begins to read...A Spanish Count with two escorts rides through deserted foothills towards a mysterious Inn.
	www.pagenation.com /an/B00005Y6YR.html (1532 words)

	Lerida
		The game is a disguised scenario based on the situation in the Spanish Peninsular following the sacking of Cordoba (alias Saragossa) 1808 and immediately prior to the battle of Bailen (alias Lerida).
		The victory ushered in a period of complacency in which the quality of the Spanish regular army was allowed to deteriorate to such an extent that they would not win an open battle during the remaining years of the Napoleonic Wars.
		The French General Reille has just sacked Saragossa after a bloody siege, and is returning to Barcelona (in Catalonia) with his enormous train of booty, despite King Joseph's orders to stay in Aragon and continue to over-awe it by his presence.
	home.freeuk.net /henridecat/lerida/lerida.htm (1532 words)

	Gaming Outpost :: The Saragossa Manuscript
		In the middle of a battle in Spain during the Napoleonic wars, two soldiers from opposite sides are suddenly entranced by a manuscript.
		This book fascinates its reader so much the deafening sounds of the surrounding battle disappear as he begins to read...A Spanish Count with two escorts rides through deserted foothills towards a mysterious Inn.
		Spanning centuries and nations, the manuscript's reach encompasses a wide array of stories both humorous and horrifying, gleeful and grotesque, before the final chilling revelations bring this one of a kind book to a close.
	gamingoutpost.newmediaone.net /store/B00005Y6YR/The_Saragossa_Manuscript.html (1429 words)

	Battle of Roncevaux Pass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Roncevaux Pass (Roncesvaux in English, Roncesvalles in Spanish, Orreaga in Basque) is the site of a famous battle in 778 in which Hroudland (later changed to Roland), prefect of Brittany March was defeated by the Basques.
		This battle was the last of Charlemagne 's first campaign to capture Spain, an attempt that ended in failure.
		Over the years, this minor battle was romanticized by oral tradition into a major conflict between Christians and Muslims, when in fact both sides in the real battle were Christian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Roncevaux_Pass (1429 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Battle of Roncevaux Pass
		The Roncevaux Pass (Roncesvaux in English, Roncesvalles in Spanish, Orreaga in Basque) is the site of a famous battle in 778 in which Hroudland (later changed to Roland), prefect of Brittany March was defeated by the Basques.
		This battle was the last of Charlemagne's first campaign to capture Spain, an attempt that ended in failure.
		Over the years, this minor battle was romanticized by oral tradition into a major conflict between Christians and Muslims, when in fact both sides in the real battle were Christian.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Battle_of_the_Roncesvalles_Pass (309 words)

	Battle Chronologies - Reader comments at DanielPipes.org
		• 777 - Battle of Saragossa in Spain
		• 642 - Battle of Rayy in Persia
		• 744 - Battle of Ain al Jurr.
	www.danielpipes.org /comments/25309 (944 words)

	Book 2, Chapter 48
		In 1808 and 1809, in Spain, he assisted the Emperor bravely at Burgos, won the battle of Tudela by himself, and captured Saragossa.
		On the first day of the battle of Essling the Austrians had captured the village of that name, and the French regiment which had been posted there was retiring in some disorder before a much superior force, when, being sent to that point by Marshal Lannes, I learnt that the colonel had just been killed.
		Now it happened during the battle of Burgos that at the decisive moment, a captain of artillery, having misunderstood a manuvre which had been enjoined, took his battery in exactly the wrong direction.
	www.napoleonic-literature.com /Book_2/V1C48.html (944 words)

	Jose (car-rah-ta-lah') Carratala
		He was wounded at the battle of Tudela and the second siege of Saragossa, won several promotions, and at the close of the war was lieutenant colonel.
		He wrote the capitulation after the battle of Ayacucho, when the royalists were finally defeated in South America.
		occupied Are-quipa in 1820, burned several towns in the province of Jauja, was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, and joined Canterac, with whom he won the battle of Macacona, and continued the campaign to the end.
	www.famousamericans.net /josecarratala (944 words)

	Napoleonic Marshals : Jean Lannes
		In late 1808, Lannes was transferred to Spain, won the battle of Tudela and then successfully ended the horrendous siege of Saragossa.
		His last battle was Aspern-Essling where his advance II Corps held off, against massive odds, the Austrian army while Bonaparte desperately tried to get more troops across the swollen, flooded Danube.
		With Austria resurgent in the east, Lannes joined Bonaparte along the Danube in the battles of Abensberg, Landshut, Eckmuhl and Ratisbon, where he led the assault on the walls himself.
	www.napoleonguide.com /marshal_lannes.htm (944 words)

	WADE, BENJAMIN F. - LoveToKnow Article on WADE, BENJAMIN F.
		In 1710 he was again with the main Anglo-allied army in Spain, and took part in the great battle of Saragossa on the aoth of August, after which he was promoted major-general and given a command at home.
		Wade distinguished himself at the siege of Alcantara in 1706, in a rearguard action at Villa Nova in the same autumn (in which, according to Galway, his two battalions repulsed twenty-two allied squadrons), and at the disastrous battle of Almanza on the 25th of April 1707.
		He had now risen to the command of a brigade, and on the following ist of January (1707/8) he was promoted brigadier-general in the British army.
	74.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WA/WADE_BENJAMIN_F_.htm (2750 words)

	Influences on the visions of Fatima
		In Portugal, Christ appeared to King Afonso Enriques before the battle of Ourique with the Moors and in the middle ages the Virgin Mary changed the bread that Queen Isabel, wife of King Dinis, was taking to the poor, into roses.
		In the Spain of the Reconquest it was Saint James or Santiago who appeared on a white horse to defeat the Moors at the battle of Clavijo.
		In 40 A.D. the Virgin had appeared to the very same James in the form of a pillar in Saragossa
	www.portcult.com /FAT.04.INFLUENCES.htm (426 words)

	Gaspar, baron Gourgaud
		He was present at the siege of Saragossa in 1808, returned to service in Central Europe and took part in nearly all the battles of the Danubian campaign of 1809.
		Wounded at the Battle of Montmirail, he recovered in time to be involved in several of the conflicts which followed, distinguishing himself especially at Laon and Reims.
		In the campaign of 1813 in Saxony he again showed courage and prowess, especially at Leipzig and Hanau; but it was in the first battle of 1814, near to Brienne, that he rendered the most signal service by killing the leader of a small band of Cossacks who were riding furiously towards Napoleon's tent.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Gaspar,-baron-Gourgaud.htm (750 words)

	How the Spanish defeated the Islamic Terror - Topic Powered by Groupee Community
		The reconquest began almost immediately in 718 with the defeat of the Muslim army at the battle of Alcama by the Visigoth chieftain Pelayo who was one of the few survivors of the battle of the Guadalete river.
		He escaped capture at the battle of Guadalete, where he was a member of the Visigothic King Rodrigo's bodyguard, and returned to his native Asturias in the northern part of Spain.
		He had in 1067, fought with Sancho against the Moorish stronghold of Zaragoza (Saragossa), making Zaragoza's emir a prisoner who later served as an official under Sancho.
	forums.military.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/8001934822/m/939106135 (5049 words)

	How the Spanish defeated the Islamic Terror - Topic Powered by Groupee Community
		The reconquest began almost immediately in 718 with the defeat of the Muslim army at the battle of Alcama by the Visigoth chieftain Pelayo who was one of the few survivors of the battle of the Guadalete river.
		He had also, in the spring of 1063, fought in the Battle of Graus, where Ferdinand's half-brother, Ramiro I of Aragon, had laid siege to the Moorish town of Graus which was in Zaragozan lands.
		He escaped capture at the battle of Guadalete, where he was a member of the Visigothic King Rodrigo's bodyguard, and returned to his native Asturias in the northern part of Spain.
	forums.military.com /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/8001934822/m/939106135 (5049 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Napoleon Bonaparte
		He was deserted by the Bavarian contingents in the celebrated "Battle of the Nations" at Leipzig (18 19 October), the defection of the Wurtembergers and the Saxons was the chief cause of his defeat.
		In November he gained the victories of Burgos, Espinosa, Tudela, and Somo Sierra, and reopened the gates of Madrid for Joseph; on 21 February Saragossa was taken by the French armies after an heroic resistance.
		Then, in 1807, penetrating into Russia, he induced the tsar by means of the battles of Eylau (8 February, 1807) and Friedland (14 June, 1807), to sign the Peace of Tilsit (8 July, 1807).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10687a.htm (11597 words)

	'Saragossa Manuscript': Worth 1,000 Words? More Like a Gazillion
		The story begins in the heat of battle as Alphonse, who has fled to a cabin, is mysteriously attracted to a manuscript whose pictures are so compelling he barely notices when enemy soldiers arrive to arrest him.
		There comes a point late in Wojciech Has' teasingly labyrinthine three-hour film, "The Saragossa Manuscript," when so many phantasmagoric stories have sprouted out of one another in such rapid succession that the mind begins to reel.
		Questions of who did what to whom and which adventures were charades invented by characters who revel in deceit, and which were not, begin to blur into a surreal comic vision of a world in which reality and fantasy are indistinguishable.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/052199saragossa-film-review.html (493 words)

	Book 15
		Principle on which Napoleon chose his officers— Passage of Lodi— Battle of Montebello— Battle of Marengo— Siege of Saragossa— Battle of Aspern, and Death of Lannes.
		His Early Career— Campaigns with Massena— His Character— Battle of Austerlitz— His First Campaign in Spain— Death of Sir John Moore— Storming of Oporto— Retreat from Portugal— Battle of Albuera— Second Campaign in Spain— Siege of St. Sebastiani— Soult's last Struggle for the Empire.
		His Early Life— Battle of Trebbia— Quarrel with Napoleon— His Passage of the Splugen— Charge at Wagram— Defence at Leipsic— His Character.
	www.napoleonic-literature.com /Book_15/Book15.htm (811 words)

	Napoleon Series Battle Lists
		On these ever growing pages you will find information about the battles and treaties of the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars.
		So if you search for further informations or if you want to know where the figures of the battle lists come from then please have a look into this list.
		1807/10/18 - 1814/04/30: Peninsular War, most famous battle(s): Talavera, Valencia, Bailén, Saragossa, Albuera, Salamanca, Vittoria
	www.napoleon-series.org /military/c_listings.html (811 words)

	Polish Art Center - Polish History
		For four long and bitter years Brandt was caught up in Napoleon's attempt to subjugate Spain - the Peninsular War - fighting in battles, horrific sieges (including the legendary siege of Saragossa) and hunting and being hunted by merciless bands of Spanish guerrillas.
		From Grunwald (1410) to Orsza (1514) and Kirchholm (1605) to Raclawice (1795), consecutive confederations and risings to September 1939 and the Warsaw Uprising (1944) - the signs of the will to defend the heritage entrusted to Poles by generations of their ancestors.
		The defence of the shrine against the Swedes in 1656 and so many other battles, not always won, but always evoking some common cause that the Poles fought for.
	www.polartcenter.com /cgi-bin/shop.pl/SID=1020985302.2499/page=history.htm (811 words)

	Book 15
		Principle on which Napoleon chose his officers— Passage of Lodi— Battle of Montebello— Battle of Marengo— Siege of Saragossa— Battle of Aspern, and Death of Lannes.
		His Early Career— Campaigns with Massena— His Character— Battle of Austerlitz— His First Campaign in Spain— Death of Sir John Moore— Storming of Oporto— Retreat from Portugal— Battle of Albuera— Second Campaign in Spain— Siege of St. Sebastiani— Soult's last Struggle for the Empire.
		His Early Life— Battle of Trebbia— Quarrel with Napoleon— His Passage of the Splugen— Charge at Wagram— Defence at Leipsic— His Character.
	www.napoleonic-literature.com /Book_15/Book15.htm (811 words)

	AlmaVerde Village & Spa - Luxury villas and Apartments in the Western Algarve
		Many sea battles have been fought off this cape, and it was Horatio Nelson’s dramatic action in the 1797 battle of Cape St. Vincent that secured victory and helped to establish his reputation as one of England’s greatest naval heroes.
		The cape is named after St. Vincent, a young deacon in Saragossa during the time of the Roman persecution of Christian clergy.
		Vincent was cruelly tortured by the proconsul Dacian, then governor of Spain, but bore his repeated torments with such equanimity that Dacian wept with rage and frustration.
	www.almaverde.net /costa_vicentina.html (1249 words)

	New Napoleonic Titles
		Transferred to the 116th line, he is present at the Siege of Saragossa and the Battle of Maria 1809, promoted to Chef de Battalion in 1811 he serves in A L'ARMEE D' Aragon with distinction, winning further promotion to colonel in 1814.
		Some, such as the battle of Villers-en-Cauchies, were remarkable for their unpredictable outcome through the determination showed by one side.
		The Battle of Waterloo marked the end of the career of one of the most charismatic men of all time and signaled a crucial shift in the Europe@in balance of power.
	www.empire-books.com:16080 /catnew.html (1249 words)

	Saragossa Manuscript
		From the beginning of the film, it is clear that The Saragossa Manuscript is not at all like the previous films we have viewed.
		Throughout the movie that becomes more and more obvious when you see female nudes in the same scenes with skeletons and characters with distorted parts of their bodies.
		The book captures the enemy’s interest as well, and he sends his three men back to the battle while he joins his attention to read the manuscript.
	www.wsp.krakow.pl /nkja/literature/saragossa/klara.htm (1073 words)

	Von Saragossa: Information on noah
		at the battle of Epila and the storming of Saragossa, and in 1809 was promoted to be general of...
		The Muslim governor of Saragossa was so delighted by the excellence of...
		was a 7-yr-old altar boy at the cathedral of Saragossa, who was kidnapped by Jews and nailed against...
	gordonnoah.seemnoah.com /vonsaragossa (1017 words)

	Martin Schell's Outline of Wojciech Has' The Saragossa Manuscript
		Jan Potocki, the Polish author of The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.
		The novelist begins with a story of a battle in a town.
		With a loud cry, he throws the book across the room -- it hits some meat hanging on an overhead line and lands on the table in the corner where the first officer found it at the beginning of the movie.
	www.globalenglish.info /saragossamanuscript/saragossa2.htm (3089 words)

	Book 15
		Principle on which Napoleon chose his officers— Passage of Lodi— Battle of Montebello— Battle of Marengo— Siege of Saragossa— Battle of Aspern, and Death of Lannes.
		His Early Life— Battle of Trebbia— Quarrel with Napoleon— His Passage of the Splugen— Charge at Wagram— Defence at Leipsic— His Character.
		His Early Career— Campaigns with Massena— His Character— Battle of Austerlitz— His First Campaign in Spain— Death of Sir John Moore— Storming of Oporto— Retreat from Portugal— Battle of Albuera— Second Campaign in Spain— Siege of St. Sebastiani— Soult's last Struggle for the Empire.
	www.napoleonic-literature.com /Book_15/Book15.htm (811 words)

	Smatterings of Random Spanish History dealing with the Moors
		A battle in which the Visgothic king, Pelayo, defeated the Muslim army in 722 became the symbol of Christian Reconquest, "The Reconquista." Uprisings and revolts of Christians and Jews in Cordoba, 805, 817 and Toledo, 814 and 837 were all surpressed.
		In 1410 Ferdinand won a major battle at Antequera resulting in his being crowned King of Argon in 1412.
		But Ibn-el-Arabi, who had prematurely brought on his army of Berbers, was assassinated by the emissary of Abderrahman, and though Pampelona was razed, and Barcelona and other cities fell, Saragossa held out.
	foclark.tripod.com /gypsy/Spain.html (811 words)

	Martin Schell's Outline of Wojciech Has' The Saragossa Manuscript
		Jan Potocki, the Polish author of The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.
		The novelist begins with a story of a battle in a town.
		The text of this outline was last modified on August 30, 1999.
	www.globalenglish.info /saragossamanuscript/saragossa2.htm (3089 words)

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