They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

Very little is known of the church under Alfred.

The reasons for this journey are fundamentally unclear, since Truso was at the time little more than a trading center, and Alfred the Great, the West Saxon ruler, already kept in close contact with the continental Saxons and the Franks.

Alfred responded effectively and was able with little fighting to bring about their withdrawal in 877.

As a contemporary biographer of John Brown put it: " If, as Alfred Kazin suggests, without John Brown there would have been no Civil War, we would add that without the Concord Transcendentalists, John Brown would have had little cultural impact.

With little thought, the army commanders decide that Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus ( Joseph Schildkraut ) is the traitor.

Among the original crown jewels were Alfred the Great's State Crown described as " Gould wyerworke set with slight stones and two little bells " which once melted down the gold that it contained fetched £ 248 and 10 shillings, while the little 11th century crown of Queen Edith only realised £ 16.

It was first published in Alfred Kreymborg's little magazine The Glebe and was later published in 1914 by Alfred and Charles Boni in New York and by Harold Monro at the Poetry Bookshop in London.

Mother Alfred Moes and the Sisters of Saint Francis ( a teaching order ) were called in to act as nurses despite having been trained as teachers and with little if any medical experience.

One wintry day, Alfred and Mary are driving home from a party when they see a little boy fall through the thin ice of a frozen pond.

There was little, beyond repeatedly paying the invaders off, that Alfred could do about the Danish menace between 875 and the end of 877.

He gave little shows for the students in schools and citizens of Darlington and the surrounding towns, with an act that included having four strong farmers lift up a plow, with Alfred lying beneath it.

The so-called Selections ( 1836 ) published by Alfred Inigo Suckling is in fact a complete edition of his works, of which WC Hazlitt's edition ( 1874 ; revised ed., 1892 ) is little more than a reprint with some additions.

American paleontologist Alfred Romer wrote that, " little slips from virtue were those we might make ourselves, were we bolder ".

After visiting the island in the 1930s, Alfred Metraux observed that the moai platforms are concentrated along the current coast of the island, which implies that the island's shape has changed little since they were built.

By 1967, Quorum, the partnership between Alice Pollock and Ossie, was deeply in debt and Alice's financial backer, Mike Armitage, a stockbroker, decided there was little possibility of Quorum ever making a profit and he and Alice agreed to sell Quorum to a large UK fashion house, Radley ( run by Alfred Radley ).

As recently as the 1960s, when Alfred P. Sloan published his famous memoir and management treatise, My Years with General Motors, even the longtime president and chair of the largest manufacturing enterprise that had ever existed knew very little about the history of the development, other than to say that "< nowiki > was, I believe, one of those mainly responsible for bringing the technique of interchangeable parts into automobile manufacturing.

Blue Note president and producer Alfred Lion often noted that Rudy was sometimes a little heavy on the reverb and would jokingly note that on the tape box as a " Rudy special ".

The figure of Alfred is very much like Roman himself-a slight figure, young and a little defenseless-a touch of Kafka.

This face is however not suitable for rock climbers as there is little clean rock, although Alfred Wainwright describes a challenging route up the face in his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells.

While Flaubert learned from his friend Fréderic Baudry, who in turn had consulted Alfred Maury, that " poor little Deus Crepitus does not exist ; it's a modern invention ," he liked his text so much that he left him in.

The inspiration for this plot device is quite probably Alfred Hitchcock ’ s 1954 film, Rear Window, a nod to a classic.

Alfred began to put his affairs in order, and he went about it like a man putting his things into storage.

I went to visit Alfred in the Kingston Hospital a few times.

The obituary stated (" The merchant of death is dead ") and went on to say, " Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

While finishing his PhD he went to California to work with Alfred Kroeber documenting the indigenous languages there.

It went on to become a silent movie of the same name, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and filmed in 1927.

He went to great lengths to win a lawsuit for the right to be called " inventor of the telegraph ", and promoted himself as being an inventor, but Alfred Vail played an important role in the invention of the Morse Code, which was based on earlier codes for the electromagnetic telegraph.

Æthelred and Emma's two sons, Edward and Alfred, went into exile in Normandy while their mother, Emma, became Cnut's second wife.

In 853 his younger brother Alfred went to Rome, and according to contemporary references in the Liber Vitae of San Salvatore, Brescia, Æthelred accompanied him.

In the second half of the 20th century, the countertenor voice went through a massive resurgence in popularity, partly due to pioneers such as Alfred Deller, by the increased popularity of Baroque opera and the need of male singers to replace the castrati roles in such works.

The book itself went on to inspire the plot for a wide array of novels, from Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur ( 1880 ), a Science Fiction retelling in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, to Stephen Fry's contemporary The Stars ' Tennis Balls,

This series includes, for example, Ethel Lina White's novel The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), which Alfred Hitchcock — before he went to Hollywood — turned into a much-loved movie entitled The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), and Ira Levin's ( born 1929 ) science fiction thriller The Boys from Brazil ( 1976 ), which was filmed in 1978.

Liberty Hall also went by the name of Alfred Hardy & Son Blacksmith Shop, is a small brick building.

He and Else had three children, Agathe, Martin ( who went on to become a professor of astronomy at Princeton University ), and Alfred.

The crowd went wild, including Alfred D. Herger, one of Puerto Rico's top record producers, who was seated near the family.

In 1924, Alfred Richard Orage, a British intellectual, the editor of the magazine, The New Age, was appointed by Gurdjieff as the assistant of another old follower of Gurdjieff to lead study groups in America, but due to Gurdjieff ’ s nearly fatal automobile accident, the one who was supposed to lead the groups never went to US and Orage decided to lead the groups on his own initiation.

Bass went on to create memorable title sequences for other renowned films, notably for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho.

Victor went on to record the New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Willem Mengelberg and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra with Rudolph Ganz from 1922, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Alfred Hertz from 1925 ; Hertz's earliest discs, made at Victor's new Oakland studios ( opened in 1924 ), were the company's last acoustical orchestral sessions.

Her poetry went through numerous editions in the 19th century ; Coventry Patmore called her the most popular poet of the day, after Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

In 1874 he spent part of the winter in Russia, where he went to take part in the marriage of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and the Grand Duchess Marie.

Other funding went into endocrinology departments in American universities, human heredity, mammalian biology, human physiology and anatomy, psychology, and the pioneering studies of human sexual behavior by Dr. Alfred Kinsey.

In 1866 she went on a world cruise, under the command of the Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.

However, when Fred went to his brother Alfred to borrow money for his passage, Alfred decided to go over in Fred's place.