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  OUIDA (MARIA LOUISE DE LA RAMEE) - LoveToKnow Article on OUIDA (MARIA LOUISE DE LA RAMEE)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The battle of Oudenarde was not the greatest of Marlborough's victories, but it affords almost the best illustration of his military character.
Contrary to all the rules of war then in vogue, he fought a piecemeal and unpremeditated battle, with his back to a river, and with wearied troops, and the event justified him.
He was the beau-ideal of an infantry general, energetic, thoroughly conversant with detail, and in battle as resolute and skilful as any of the marshals of Napoleon.
58.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OU/OUIDA_MARIA_LOUISE_DE_LA_RAMEE_.htm   (2845 words)

  
 Thales of Miletus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
According to Herodotus's report, the umbra of the eclipse of Thales must have passed over the battle field.
One of the few dates in Thales's life which can be known with certainty is the date of the Eclipse of 585 BCE It brought to a halt the battle being fought between Alyattes and the Mede, Cyaxares and, in addition, brought peace to the region after 'five years of indecisive warfare' (Hdt.
The Greeks believed that Thales had predicted the Eclipse, and perhaps even regarded him as being influential in causing the phenomenon to occur.
www.iep.utm.edu /t/thales.htm   (9340 words)

  
 Author M (Summaries by Reg Barrow and Others -- Free Discount Christian Mail Order Catalogue -- Classic Puritan Books)
Battles against the modern feminist view that has only very recently usurped the voting rights of male heads of households by awarding the franchise to women.
Ulric Zwingle, the morning-star of the reformation, fell in battle at Zurich, 1530, at the commencement of the strife against arbitrary power; and towards the close of the struggle which terminated in the overthrow of the purest of the churches (i.e.
The history of many great battles for Christ and His royal rights are accurately recounted in this moving chronicle of Reformation struggles and martyrdom.
www.swrb.com /catalog/m.htm   (11279 words)

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