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	Battle of Omdurman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, it was not until the (additional info and facts about Battle of Umm Diwaykarat) Battle of Umm Diwaykarat a year later that the final Mahdist forces were defeated.
		(A battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese) Omdurman is today a suburb of (The capital of Sudan located at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile) Khartoum in central Sudan, with a population of some 1.5 million.
		The battle began in the early morning, at around 6 a.m.
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	Battle of Tolbiac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Battle of Tolbiac was fought between the Franks under Clovis I and the Alamanni, traditionally in 496.
		The site of "Tolbiac", or "Tulpiacum" is usually given as Zülpich, Nordrhein-Westfalen, about 60km east of the present German-Belgian frontier, which is not implausible.
		This article about a historical battle is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Tolbiac (151 words)

	Alamanni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When the Gothic campaign ended in Roman victory at the Battle of Naissus in September, Gallienus' successor Claudius II Gothicus turned north to deal with the Alamanni, who were swarming over all Italy north of the Po River.
		After efforts to secure a peaceful withdrawal failed, Claudius forced the Alamanni to battle at the Battle of Lake Benacus in November.
		Their kingdom (or duchy of Alamannia) lasted until 496, when they were conquered by Clovis I at the Battle of Tolbiac, from which time they formed part of the Frankish dominions.
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	CHAPTER - REIGN OF CLOVIS
		After each successful battle or expedition, the spoils were accumulated in one common mass; every warrior received his proportionable share; and the royal prerogative submitted to the equal regulations of military law.
		In the distress of the battle of Tolbiac, Clovis loudly invoked the God of Clotilda and the Christians; and victory disposed him to hear, with respectful gratitude, the eloquent f1203 Remigius, bishop of Rheims, who forcibly displayed the temporal and spiritual advantages of his conversion.
		After the event of an unsuccessful battle, Sigismond, who wished to protract his life that he might prolong his penance, concealed himself in the desert in a religious habit, till he was discovered and betrayed by his subjects, who solicited the favor of their new masters.
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	Alamanni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their most famous battle against Rome took place in Argentoratum (Strasbourg), in 357, where they were defeated by Julian, later Emperor of Rome, and their king Chnodomar ("Chonodomarius") was taken prisoner.
		Their kingdom (or duchy of Alamannia) between Strasbourg and Augsburg lasted until 496, when they were conquered by Clovis I at the Battle of Tolbiac.
		The war of Clovis with the Alamanni forms the setting for the conversion of Clovis, briefly treated by Gregory of Tours (Book II.31) Subsequently the Alamanni formed part of the Frankish dominions and were governed by a Frankish count.
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	Wikipedia: Clovis I
		He fought a battle in Dijon in the year 500, but did not successfully subdue the Burgundian kingdom.
		All that remains of this great abbey (later named in honour of Paris' patron saint, Geneviève, it was demolished in 1802) is the Tour Clovis, a Romanesque tower which now lies within the grounds of the prestigious Lycèe Henri IV, just east of The Panthéon.
		Following the Battle of Vouillé, according to Gregory of Tours, the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I, granted Clovis the title of consul.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/c/cl/clovis_i.html (610 words)

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		Battle of Pydna, 168 B.C.: The Roman general L. Aemilius Paullus defeats Perseus, the King of Macedonia.
		"the Tolbiac of Clovis and the Austerlitz of Napoleon"
		The Battle of Austerlitz was a 1805 victory for Napoleon I (Emperor of France 1804-1815).
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	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol 3
		Clovis encountered the invaders of Gaul in the plain of Tolbiac, about twenty-four miles from Cologne; and the two fiercest nations of Germany were mutually animated by the memory of past exploits, and the prospect of future greatness.
		But the battle was restored by the valor, and the conduct, and perhaps by the piety, of Clovis; and the event of the bloody day decided forever the alternative of empire or servitude.
		The last king of the Alemanni was slain in the field, and his people were slaughtered or pursued, till they threw down their arms, and yielded to the mercy of the conqueror.
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	Battle of Tolbiac -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Battle of Tolbiac -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The site of "Tolbiac", or "Tulpiacum" is usually given as (additional info and facts about Zülpich) Zülpich, (additional info and facts about Nordrhein-Westfalen) Nordrhein-Westfalen, about 60km east of the present German- (A native or inhabitant of Belgium) Belgian frontier, which is not implausible.
		He became a Christian in a ceremony at (A city in northeastern France east of Paris; scene of the coronation of most French kings; site of the unconditional German surrender in 1945 at the end of World War II) Reims in 496.
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	Battle of Tolbiac - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Battle of Tolbiac - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	Dictionary battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		, conflict, fight, engagement -- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
		-- an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition"
		, combat -- battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Nothern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget"
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Clovis
		Through a ruse he obtained possession of Chararic and his son and threw them into prison; he then had their heads shaved, and both were ordained, the father to the priesthood and the son to the diaconate.
		Finally, during a battle against the Alemanni--which without apparent reason has been called the battle of Tolbiac (Zulpich)--seeing his troops on the point of yielding, he invoked the aid of Clotilda's God, promised to become a Christian if only victory should be granted him.
		He conquered and, true to his word was baptized at Reims by St. Remigius, bishop of that city, his sister Albofledis and three thousand of his warriors at the same time embracing Christianity.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04070a.htm (2263 words)

	Taunus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For this reason there are some Alemannic cemeteries in the southern foothills of the Taunus (Eschborn).
		This area became Frankish after the Battle of Tolbiac.
		This page was last modified 23:06, 20 September 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taunus (172 words)

	Items for world cultures
		In 492 he married Clotilda (niece of the king of the Burgundians), who was a Catholic and made him baptize their son.
		While in the battle of Tolbiac, Clovis' troops were being defeated, and he asked God for help, in return for which he promised he would become baptised.
		The impact that he had during his time came mostly because he was almost always fighting a battle or war of some kind, and wreaking havoc throughout his land.
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	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It has been said that it is the interpretation of the bee which was borne on a ring by Childéric I, c.436-481.
		One legend says that Clovis, the first Christian king of the Franks, who was converted in 496, received the lilies from an angel via a hermit; another, that soldiers of Clovis, after the battle of Tolbiac(5), took irises to put into their hair and thus adopted them as a royal badge(6).
		These stories may at least help to prove the antiquity of the fleur de lis, but there must always have been the temptation to make up a story to fit subsequent history, and the problem of the chicken and the egg has always been present for students of heraldry.
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	Caldwell Family of Delaware
		I can, however, give you the substance of it: In the year 496, Clovis the first King of France, while fighting the battle of Tolbiac was about to be defeated by a German tribe.
		It was due to this gallant officer, whose company bore his name, that the Delaware men were known as The Blue Hen's Chickens, Captain CAldwell took with his company game chickens, which were from the brood of a blue hen celebrated in Kent county for their fighting qualities.
		The gallantry of these men was attested at Long Island, Trenton: Princeton, Germantown, the battle of the Brandywine, on Camden's field, at Cowpens, at Eutaw and in the final triumph of Yorktown.
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	496 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Events Battle of Tolbiac ; Clovis I defeats the Alamanni accepts Catholic baptism at Reims.
		The ruling Tuoba family in the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty change their family name to...
		Kavadh I of Persia is deposed and exiled by his brother Djamasp.
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	Encyclopedia: 500
		Possible date for the Battle of Mons Badonicus: Romano-British and Celts defeat an Anglo-Saxon army that may have been led by the bretwalda Aelle of Sussex (approximate date; suggested dates range from 490 to 510) Note: This battle may have influenced the legend of King Arthur.
		In the Battle of Mount Badon (Latin Mons Badonicus, Welsh Mynydd Baddon) Romano_British and Celts inflicted a severe defeat on an invading Anglo-Saxon army sometime in the decade before or after 500.
		The term Romano-British describes the Romanised culture of Britain under the rule of the Roman Empire, when Roman and Christian culture had extensively entered into the life of the native Brythonic, Pictish and perhaps Gaelic -speaking peoples of Britain.
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	New Catholic Dictionary: Clovis; Chlodwig; Chlodowech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He conferred on the vanquished equal rights with the Germanic peoples, and all adopted the name of Franks.
		About 493 he married Saint Clotilda, and when, after invoking the aid of her God during the desperate battle of Tolbiac against the Alemanni, he won the victory, he was baptized with 3,000 of his warriors at Reims by Saint Remi, 496.
		His conversion helped to weld the peoples of his kingdom into that nation which was to be for ages the chief defender of western civilization and Catholicism.
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	St. Clotilde, St. Clotilda, Plinio Correa de Oliveira commentary on the Saint of the Day, June 3, June 3 @ ...
		It is hard to understand why the king accepted, given the political inconvenience that could come from the union, but he did.
		She continued to practice her faith, and Clovis was influenced by her example.
		When he was in a very difficult military situation, on the point of losing the battle of Tolbiac against the Alamanni barbarians in the year 496, he made a promise to “the God of Clotilda.” He promised that if God would help to win that battle, he would convert to the Catholic Faith.
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	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Known also as Vaast, Foster, and Gaston, St. Vedast, a native of western France, is best-known as the catechist of Clovis, King of the Franks.
		Ordained at Toul, Vedast met Clovis when the king required a learned man to accompany him to Rheims after the battle of Tolbiac (496); upon their arrival, Clovis recommended his companion to Archbishop Remigius, who was to baptize the king after his wife, Clotilde had converted him to Christianity.
		The two clerics evangelized the Franks, and in 499, Vedast was named bishop of Arras and Cambrai, dioceses that had returned to paganism after the raids of Atilla.
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	Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Upon the request for aid from the Riparian Francs, Clovis I defeats the Alamans (Germans) at the Battle of Tolbiac in 496 thus bringing Champagne under his jurisdiction.
		Clodomir himself had died at the Battle of Vezeronce [in Isere] on 25 June 524.
		In 531 Thierry and Clotaire I are occupied in battle against the Thuringians.
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	Articles - Sundgau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They, in turn, were followed by the Francs following their victory at the Battle of Tolbiac in 496.
		The battles of the First World War commenced in Sundgau in August 1914.
		The French blew up the viaduct of Dannemarie, and the front stabilised and extended from the Vosges to the Swiss frontier.
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	Leaders and Battles: Clovis I,
		In 491, he defeated a small group of Thuringians east of his territories, and in 496 defeated the confederation of Germanic tribes Alamanni at the battle of Tolbiac.
		In 500, he fought a battle in Dijon but failed to win the Burgundian kingdom until he gained the support of the Armoricans and with their support, he defeated the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse at Vouille in 507, killing their king Alaric II during the battle.
		He named Paris the capital of the Frankish kingdom that included most of present-day France and southwestern Germany.
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	Battles pre 1815 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From England's Battles by Sea and Land A Complete Record of the Naval and Military Conflicts of the British Nation, With Their Labours, Triumphs, and Disasters.
		From England's Battles by Sea and Land Vol.IV The Present Expedition Against Ruusian Aggression in the East written by Lieut Col Williams and illustrated by J de Leutherbourg and Rogers £12 each unmounted
		Death of Colonel Rawle at the Battle of Trenton
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	socrates philosophy
		A monk writes that Clovis, being in great danger at the battle of Tolbiac, made a vow to turn Christian if he escaped; but is it natural to address oneself to a foreign god on such an occasion?
		Which is the Christian who, in a battle against the Turks, will not address himself to the Holy Virgin rather than to Mohammed?
		It is added that a pigeon brought the holy phial in its socrates philosophy beak to anoint Clovis, and that an angel brought the oriflamme to lead him; prejudice believed all the little stories of this kind.
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	Encyclopedia: Battle-of-Tolbiac
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		The Franks were one of several west Germanic tribes who entered the late Roman Empire from Frisia as foederati and established a lasting realm in an area that covers most of modern-day France and the region of Franconia in Germany, forming the historic kernel of both these two modern...
		Events Battle of Tolbiac; Clovis I defeats the Alamanni accepts Catholic baptism at Reims.
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