Marsin had been operating with the Elector of Bavaria against the Imperial commander, Prince Louis of Baden, and was somewhat isolated from France: his only lines of communication lay through the rocky passes of the Black Forest.

It was also the capital of an independent state under Edward, the Black Prince ( 1362 – 1372 ), but in the end, after the Battle of Castillon ( 1453 ) it was annexed by France which extended its territory.

On 8 August 1356, the eldest son of King Edward III of England, crowned as the Prince of Wales but now known as Edward, the Black Prince, began a great chevauchée, conducting many scorched earth raids northwards from the English base in Aquitaine, in an effort to bolster his troops in central France, as well as to raid and ravage the countryside.

Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer also fought at Poitiers under The Black Prince.

Combat was hard, but the Black Prince still had a mobile reserve hidden in the woods, which was able to circle around and attack the French in the flank and rear.

As Edward, the Black Prince, wrote shortly afterward in a letter to the people of London:

Nearby is the Château Vieux, some of which dates back to the 12th century, where the governors of the city were based, including the English Black Prince.

Among the charges was that the Black Hand had attempted to murder Prince Regent Alexander.

With the demise of the Black Hand in June 1917 after the Salonika Trial, The White Hand steadily gained control of the young and ambitious Prince Alexander.

The Battle of Muret was a massive step in the creation of the unified French kingdom and the country we know today — although Edward III, the Black Prince and Henry V would threaten later to shake these foundations.

In Angela Carter's Wise Children, To be or not to be is reworked as a song and dance routine, and Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince has Oedipal themes and murder intertwined with a love affair between a Hamlet-obsessed writer, Bradley Pearson, and the daughter of his rival.

Though Desdichado was instrumental in the victory, Prince John, being displeased with his behaviour of the previous day, wishes to bestow his accolades on the vanished Black Knight.

* 1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England ( b. 1330 )

At the Battle of Crécy ( 1346 ), Edward III of England sent his son, Edward, the Black Prince, to lead the charge into battle and when pressed to send reinforcements, the king replied, " say to them that they suffer him this day to win his spurs.

In 1903, the Serbian Parliament requested that Prince Peter — grandson of Đorđe Petrović ( Karađorđe ) — come to the throne of the Kingdom of Serbia, following the murder of King Aleksander Obrenović and his wife, Draga Mašin, by the Black Hand.

A model of the ship The Black Prince is covered in flowers and is taken in procession from the Quay at Millbrook to the beach at Cawsand where it is cast adrift.

* 1337 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.

It belongs chiefly to the 17th century, but some portions are much older, notably an underground chamber known as the Hall of the Black Prince ( Salle du Prince Noir ).

* The English Fleet assembled in 1355: by Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince, Duke of Cornwall departed to the Battle of Poitiers ( 1356 )

* 1356 – Battle of Poitiers: an English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II.

* Edward, the Black Prince ( 1330 – 1376 ) or Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, KG, was the eldest son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, and father to King Richard II of England.

* 1385 – Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince ( b. 1328 )

He shoved Black toward the stall, and pointed his pistol at Jess.

There, along the east bank of the Southern Bug, opposite the hamlet of Zhitzhakli a few miles north of the Black Sea, he arrived at General Headquarters of the Russian Army.

By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.

And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

Thirty years' experience let him know, even at this early stage, that Black was his man.

Black said COAHR `` hoped to be able to integrate the theaters without taking direct action, but we are pledged to using every legal and nonviolent means at our disposal ''

Because neither of them really wanted their marriage to break up, Mr. and Mrs. Black agreed to a series of interviews at Family Service of Northern Virginia, the agency nearest them.

The dense Mediterranean water sinks below the Black Sea inflow to a depth of, then flows through the Dardanelles Strait and into the Sea of Marmara at velocities of 5 – 15 cm / s.

Marc also formed a group with Black Silver called Live Black, but while five of their tracks were released on a demo CD sold at concerts, Live Black's first album has yet to be released.

* 1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.

Doubleday Field at West Point, New York, where the Army Black Knights play at Johnson Stadium, is named in Doubleday's honor.

possibly Jehu, described as " son of Omri ", or Jehu's ambassador, kneeling at the feet of Shalmaneser III on the Black Obelisk.

He places them also between the Naristi ( Varisti ), whose location at the very edge of the ancient Black Forest is well known, and the Marcomanni and Quadi.

There are the Tubanti just south of the Chatti and at the other end of what was then the Black Forest, the Varisti, whose location is known.

Remembering their expensive defeat at the Battle of Vesontio, the Germans withdrew to the Black Forest, concentrating there a mixed population dominated by Suebi.

Finally, Andronikos and Theodora settled in the ancestral lands of the Komnenoi at Oinaion, on the shores of the Black Sea, between Trebizond and Sinope.

During the summer months ( April – September ), dogs are banned from the Silver Sands but they are allowed all year round at the Black Sands.

Several scenes of Richard Jobson's 2003 movie " 16 Years of Alcohol " were filmed at the Black Sands in Aberdour.

There have been settlements there since the medieval period, likely in the Grange Lane and Black Abbey area, and the King's Highway which passes above the town was at one time used by the kings and queens of England when they used the area for hunting when the Forest of Accrington was one of the four forests of the hundred of Blackburnshire.

It has been discovered in considerable quantity at Pala in San Diego county, California ; Caceres, Spain ; and the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Black Forest ham originated from this region, and so, by name and reputation at least, did the Black Forest Cake.

Sunset on the Black Sea at Laspi