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* Battle of Wippedesfleot: The Saxons under command of Hengist and Aesc are defeated by the Britons near Ebbsfleet ( Kent ).
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Battle and Wippedesfleot
In 465, Hengest and Esc fought against the Welsh in the Battle of Wippedesfleot, probably near Ebbsfleet.
There was further action at the Battle of Wippedesfleot, but Kent was never recovered.
* c. 466 Battle of Wippedesfleot
The Battle of Wippedesfleot was a battle in 466 between the Anglo-Saxons ( or Jutes ), led by Hengest, and the Britons.
* Battle of Wippedesfleot 466
* 466, Battle of Wippedesfleot.
Battle and Saxons
Swabia became a duchy under the Frankish Empire in 496, following the Battle of Tolbiac ; in 530 Saxons and Franks destroyed the Kingdom of Thuringia.
A significant date in sub-Roman Britain is the famous Groans of the Britons, an unanswered appeal to Aëtius, leading general of the western Empire, for assistance against Saxon invasion in 446 ; another is the Battle of Dyrham in 577, after which the significant cities of Bath, Cirencester and Gloucester fell and the Saxons reached the western sea.
* 1016 – The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
Both Henry of Huntingdon and Matthew of Westminster talk of a golden dragon being raised at the Battle of Burford in AD 752 by the West Saxons.
* In the Battle of Bornhöved Slavic Obodrites led by Drożko defeated the Nordalbingian Saxons.
This attitude, however, which at first won him the confidence of the pope, was abandoned as soon as he defeated the Saxons at the First Battle of Langensalza on 9 June 1075 ( also called the Battle of Homburg or Battle of Hohenburg ).
In the war against Austria, Bernadotte led the Saxon contingent at the Battle of Wagram ( 6 July 1809 ), on which occasion, on his own initiative, he issued an Order of the Day attributing the victory principally to the valour of his Saxons, which order Napoleon at once disavowed.
* Ambrosius Aurelianus, leader of the Romano-British, defeats the Anglo Saxons under king Vortigern in the Battle of Wallop.
* Battle of Benfleet: The Saxons defeat the Vikings.
The Battle of Deorham or Dyrham was fought in 577 between the West Saxons under Ceawlin and Cuthwine and the Britons of the West Country.
In the Battle of Bornhöved ( 798 ) ( German: Schlacht bei Bornhöved ) on the field of Sventanafeld ( Sventanapolje, Slavonic for " sacred field ") near the village of Bornhöved near Neumünster in 798 the Obodrites, led by Drożko, allied with the Franks, defeated the Nordalbingian Saxons.
Following defeat of Norgalbingians in the Battle of Bornhöved by combined forces of the Obodrites and the Franks, where the Saxons lost 4, 000 people, 10, 000 Saxon families were deported to other areas of the empire.
As penance for his sins, and echoing his own punishment of the Saxons after the First Battle of Langensalza, he dramatically wore a hairshirt and stood in the snow barefoot in the middle of winter in what has become known as the Walk to Canossa.
The West Saxon victory at the Battle of Peonnum ( possibly modern Penselwood in east Somerset ), around 658, resulted in the Saxons capturing " as far as the Parrett " and the eastern part of Dumnonia being permanently annexed by Wessex.
Dagobert, in his dealings with the Saxons, Alemans, and Thuringii, as well as the Slavic peoples beyond the borders of Francia, upon whom he tried to force tribute but who instead defeated him under their king Samo at the Battle of Wogastisburg, made all the far eastern peoples subject to the court of Neustria and not of Austrasia.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a raid by Gruffudd ap Llywelyn on Leominster in 1052 resulted in the Battle of Llanllieni, between the Welsh and a combined force of Normans and English Saxons.
After his successors from the House of Griffins were defeated by the Saxons at the 1164 Battle of Verchen, they accepted the overlordship of Duke Henry the Lion.
The name is a contraction of Otterford, possibly derived from Offa, the King of Mercia who fought a battle at Otford against the Kentish Saxons in 776 at the Battle of Otford.
Solsbury Hill is a possible location of the Battle of Mount Badon, fought between the Britons ( under the legendary King Arthur ) and the Saxons c. 496, mentioned by the chroniclers Gildas and Nennius.
The area of the western Wansdyke became the border between the Romano-British Celts and the West Saxons following the Battle of Deorham in 577 AD.
Parishes in the south of the current city such as Northfield and King's Norton were colonised during a later period by the Hwicce, a Saxon tribe whose migration north through the valleys of the Severn and Avon followed the West Saxons ' victory over the Britons at the Battle of Dyrham in 577.
After the collapse of the Roman Provincial Government, the core of this area retained territorial identity until the Battle of Deorham in 577, ( now largely regarded as a dubious event ) when the Saxons made advances as far as the River Severn.
Battle and under
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* 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins – in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
* 1632 – Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years ' War.
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