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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Walter
		Benjamin, Walter (1892–1940) A literary critic associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1930s, taken up by sociologists of literature in the 1970s, mainly because of his analysis of the material aspects of literary production (see J. Roberts, Walter Benjamin, 1982).
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	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Walter&StartAt=1 (855 words)

	Walter the Penniless - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leaving well before the main army of knights and their followers, Walter led his band through the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary and the Bulgarian province of the Eastern Roman Empire, traveling separately from Peter.
		Walter and Peter joined forces at Constantinople where Alexius I Comnenus provided transport across the Bosporus.
		Despite Peter's entreaties to restrain themselves, the Crusaders engaged the Turks at once and were cut to pieces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_the_Penniless (170 words)

	Walter Hawkins
		Walter stood by while the bargain was being made, and heard the dealer offer nine hundred dollars for his body.
		The bargain being struck, an arrangement was made for Walter to re-appear the next morning at seven o'clock; at the same time, he was to bid good-bye to his friends; but be sure, said he, that you are on the spot at seven.
		At the time when Walter Hawkins arrived in Philadelphia it was called a free city and county; yet the young ladies, who gave him the information that he was free, dared not be seen with him after they had left the train, so that he had to do the best he could.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAShawkins.htm (1827 words)

	First Crusade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		You will sometimes see him referred to as Walter the Penniless, from which some infer that he was a poor knight.
		In truth, Walter's family name was Sans-Avoir and he was almost certainly not penniless.
		Walter was treated very well, even though he and his band were not really what the Emperor was expecting.
	crusades.boisestate.edu /1st/05.shtml (444 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for penniless (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		penniless • adjective synonyms : without a penny, without a penny to one's name, impecunious, penurious, impoverished, indigent, poor, as poor as a church mouse, poverty-stricken, destitute, bankrupt, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, hard up; inf.
		Penniless Sarah is job hunting, will settle for a maid to live
		Two million would be penniless in a week if they lost their job.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=penniless (706 words)

	Peter the Hermit and Collected Accounts
		Wherefore, Walter and his companions, greatly angered, began forcibly to seize and lead away the herds of cattle and sheep, which were wandering h and there through the fields in search of pasture.
		But the Bulgarians, their army growing in number, while the band of Walter was weakening and his entire company scattered, besieged the chapel and burned sixty who were within; on most of the others, who escaped from the enemy and the chapel in defense of their lives, the Bulgarians inflicted grave wounds.
		The footsoldiers came in a body to Reinald of Broyes, Walter the Penniless, to Walter of Breteuil, also, and to Folker of Orleans, who were leaders of Peter's army, to urge them to rise in a body in vindication of their brethren and against audacity of the Turks.
	www.ordotempli.org /peter_the_hermit.htm (7832 words)

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		Peter the Hermit was elected to lead this People’s Crusade accompanied by a knight, Sir Walter the Penniless, and the German monk, Gottschald.
		The vanguard led by Sir Walter had only 15,000 foot soldiers at the start and were joined by 3,000 others under the command of noblemen more concerned with gaining loot than access to the Holy Sepulchre.
		Walter and 17,000 of his army were killed.
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	The People's Crusade (1096 AD) - DBA Variant Army List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Walter the Penniless (Sans-Avoir), a pious knight sworn to poverty, had started out with eight knights and a company of Frankish foot.
		Walter's band was followed shortly thereafter by the army of Peter the Hermit.
		Walter and Peter were followed by three armies of crusaders recruited in Lorraine, eastern France, Bavaria and Alemmania, which were collectively dubbed the "German Crusades." Inspired by one of Peter's sermons, Gottschalk gathered a band of 15,000 and set out after the Hermit.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/variants/PeoplesCrusade.html (1523 words)

	Walter the Penniless (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Leaving well before the main army knights and their followers Walter led his through Germany Hungary and Bulgaria traveling separately Peter.
		Walter and Peter joined forces at Constantinople Alexius I provided transport across the Bosporus.
		Peter had returned to Constantinople either for reinforcements or to protect but Walter died with his followers in 1096.
	www.freeglossary.com /Walter_the_Penniless (596 words)

	PETER THE HERMIT - LoveToKnow Article on PETER THE HERMIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The crusade of the pauperes, which forms the first act in the first crusade, was his work; and he himself led one of the five sections of the pauperes to Constantinople, starting from Cologne in April, and arriving at Constantinople at the end of July 1096.
		Here he joined the only other section which had succeeded in reaching Constantinoplethat of Walter the Penniless; and with the joint forces, which had made themselves a nuisance by pilfering, he crossed to the Asiatic shore in the beginning of August.
		In spite of his warnings, the pauperes began hostilities against the Turks; and Peter returned to Constantinople, either in despair at their recklessness, or in the hope of procuring supplies.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PETER_THE_HERMIT.htm (745 words)

	AllRefer.com - Walter Sans Avoir (Ancient History, Late Roman And Byzantine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Walter Sans Avoir, Ancient History, Late Roman And Byzantine, Biographies
		They passed peacefully through Germany and Hungary, but plundered the Belgrade area and were set upon by the Bulgarians, who killed many of them.
		The Byzantine emperor Alexius I agreed to provide transportion across the Bosporus to Bithynia in Asia Minor, where they were utterly defeated (1096) by the Seljuk Turks, and Walter was killed.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WalterSa.html (265 words)

	Walter Sans Avoir — FactMonster.com
		1096, French Crusader, known as Walter the Penniless.
		Walter and the remnants of his army were joined at Constantinople by the forces of Peter the Hermit.
		The Byzantine emperor Alexius I agreed to provide transportion across the Bosporus to Bithynia in Asia Minor, where they were utterly defeated (1096) by the Seljuk Turks, and Walter was killed.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0851403.html (178 words)

	Crusades. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The organized host of the crusade was preceded in the spring of 1096 by several undisciplined hordes of French and German peasants.
		Walter Sans Avoir (Walter the Penniless) led a French group, which passed peacefully through Germany and Hungary but sacked the district of Belgrade.
		He was joined there by the followers of Peter the Hermit, whose progress had been similar.
	www.bartleby.com /65/cr/Crusades.html (2318 words)

	Peter the Hermit
		Following the council at Clermont (1095), Peter enlisted the services of Walter the Penniless (sans Avoir) at Poissy and Geoffrey Burel at E'tampes.
		In the meantime, the forces of Walter the Penniless and Geoffrey Burel were ambushed near Dracon.
		Most of the leaders along with Walter the Penniless were slain.
	www.swordbruden.org /peterthehermit.html (1197 words)

	The Age of Chivalry - Peter the Hermit 1050-1115 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Several followers of the first pilgrim army, led by Walter the Penniless (another individual who was enthused by Peter to take the cross), which passed through before Peter’s company, were robbed by a number of Hungarians at Malevilla on the eastern Hungarian border.
		Walter and his army had already marched on but Peter found out about the theft and laid siege to Malevilla such was his anger when he saw the spoils of Walter’s companions on the city walls.
		Thousands of Hungarians were slain and Peter held the city for five days at the end of which he withdrew when he heard the Hungarian King was on his way with a formidable army.
	www.taoc.co.uk /content/view/26/43 (1019 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		WALTER SANS AVOIR [ Walter Sans Avoir] Fr.
		Walter and the remnants of his army were...
		Walter Shepperd, un des trois touristes anglais portés disparus Sans jamais se douter d'avoir vivement inquiété leurs proc.
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	History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1845) By Edward Gibbon Esq.-Volume 3 Chapter 46- from Nalanda ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Their wants and numbers soon compelled them to separate, and his lieutenant, Walter the Penniless, a valiant though needy soldier, conducted a van guard of pilgrims, whose condition may be determined from the proportion of eight horsemen to fifteen thousand foot.
		The hermit, conscious of his shame, had withdrawn from the camp to Constantinople; and his lieutenant, Walter the Penniless, who was worthy of a better command, attempted without success to introduce some order and prudence among the herd of savages.
		The first party moved under Walter de Pexego and Walter the Penniless: they passed safe through Hungary, the kingdom of Kalmeny, and were attacked in Bulgaria.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/rome/volume3.chapter46.html (3998 words)

	Walter The Penniless - Paul Wadden - REVIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		My first recollection of hearing a finger-picked steel string guitar solo was Paul Simon playing "Angie" on a Simon and Garfunkel album in the early sixties.
		Walter the Penniless...is one of the most impressive fingerpicked guitar recordings to come across my desk in quite some time.
		His arrangements of traditional tunes like the Stack of Barley, Carolan's Draught and Sally Gardens are dazzling but the standouts on this recording are his own compositions.
	www.singsong.nfld.com /reviews/reviewwtp.html (513 words)

	The Crusades
		A large proportion of these undisciplined and ungovernable troops fell by the hands of the Hungarians and Bulgarians, whose fear or wrath they excited by their lawless conduct.
		Walter the Penniless and Peter the Hermit succeeded in bringing a remnant of their forces to Constantinople.
		These had an opportunity to fight with the infidels, but only to be well-nigh exterminated in a rash venture which they made in the neighborhood of Nicæa.
	www.edwardtbabinski.us /sheldon/crusades.html (2757 words)

	Ricker, Riker Family Origin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		His children were: Lola born on January 25, 1860; Henry born on April 13, 1862; Jennie born on July 5, 1865; Eva born on July 5, 1867; Walter born on March 12, 1870; Alma born on April 13, 1873; Florence born on December 16, 1875, and Ethel born in 1878.
		Henry Ellsworth Riker was the son of Evaline Elizabeth Riker and was born on April 13, 1862.
		Walter Silas Riker was the son of Evaline Elizabeth Riker and was born in Painesville, Ohio on March 12, 1870.
	rikers.org /riker_history.html (2016 words)

	Ten Great Events in History - (By James Johonnot)
		Like their nominal leader, each of the followers of Walter the Penniless was poor to penury, and trusted for subsistence to the chances of the road.
		Some of the survivors retraced their steps; the rest, among whom was Walter, reached Constantinople, where they awaited the arrival of Peter and his companions.
		They were hospitably received by the emperor, but their riotous conduct soon wearied out his patience, and he was glad to listen to a proposal of the Hermit to furnish them with the means of passing at once into Asia.
	www.authorama.com /ten-great-events-in-history-3.html (9219 words)

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		Peter the Hermit and Walter decide to go to Nicaea, ignoring Alexius' warning, they set sail across the one mile strait.
		Walter and thousands of others face the Seljuk Turks led by Kilij Arslan, a turkish sultan who's capital was Nicaea.
		The Turks wiped out the entire crusading army, killing Walter the Penniless as well.
	www.bow.k12.nh.us /jwrath/nicaea.htm (161 words)

	Kilij Arslan I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kilij Arslan then took over the Seljuk army and set up his capital at Nicaea, killing his own father-in-law, the emir Chaka of Smyrna in order to stabilize the Sultanate.
		He also invaded the Danishmend Emirate of Malik Ghazi in eastern Anatolia, although the two allied with each other in 1096 when the peasant crusader army of Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless arrived at Nicaea.
		About 20 000 Crusaders were killed and the rest were sold into slavery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kilij_Arslan_I (411 words)

	penniless - OneLook Dictionary Search
		penniless : Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
		Penniless : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Words similar to penniless: impecunious, penurious, pinched, hard up, in straitened circumstances, more...
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	Crusaders
		Men, women and children were so motivated by the preachings of men like Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless that they left their homes and followed the call to the crusades.
		Other massive numbers of crusaders followed men like Walter the Penniless and the numbers increased to 80,000.
		Dividing command of the mixed multitudes with a poor knight, called Walter the Penniless, and followed by a throng of about 80,000 persons, among whom were many women and children, the Hermit set out for Constantinople by the overland route through Germany and Hungary.
	www.middle-ages.org.uk /crusaders.htm (742 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The objective of the First Crusade, from the crusader perspective, was to recapture the Holy City of Jerusalem and retake the Holy Sepulcher.
		The first actual crusade against the Muslims was led by Peter The Hermit and Walter the Penniless before the main army was assembled.It is referred to as the
		This group was poorly organized and made up mostly of poor pilgrims and knights who were inadequately armed.This group of so called "Crusaders" looted and destroyed many of the communities they encountered on their way to the Holy Land.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/godkings/qincrusade/objective.html (319 words)

	washingtonpost.com: The Crusaders' Giant Footprints
		Knights and minor nobles, yeomen and archers, opportunists and thieves all dropped their mundane lives and set out to follow the cross, as much for adventure and plunder as for God.
		On all sides sprang up disorganized, undisciplined, penniless hordes who surged eastward by the thousands, foraging and looting as they went.
		Led by figures with names like Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless, they reached Constantinople in August 1096, then crossed the Bosporus to Asia Minor, where they were almost all slain by Turks.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A35989-2001Oct22?language=printer (1407 words)

	Medieval World - The Crusades
		In summer 1096, Walter the Penniless and Peter reached Conatantinople with their followers Other groups perished on route.
		Several groups attacked Jews in the Rhine valley on route seize and took their wealth, because they were seen as enemies of faith.
		The groups of Peter and Walter crossed the Bosphorus on 6 August and went to Civetot, where they were almost totally destroyed by Turkish army on 21 October.
	medieval.etrusia.co.uk /crusades.php (773 words)

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