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Alfred won a decisive victory in the ensuing Battle of Ethandun, which may have been fought near Westbury, Wiltshire.
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Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.
In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.
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Wessex was invaded in 871, and although Aethelred and Alfred won some victories and succeeded in preventing the conquest of their kingdom, a number of defeats, heavy losses of men and the arrival of a fresh Danish army in England compelled Alfred to pay the Danes to leave Wessex.
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Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will, which she won in 1905.
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Fontaine won for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion ( 1941 ) over de Havilland's nomination for Hold Back the Dawn ( 1941 ).
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She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and later starred in the thriller film North by Northwest ( 1959 ), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
The vigour of his thought won admiration from Henry James, Sr. ( father of the novelist ) and from Ralph Waldo Emerson, through whom he met Thomas Carlyle and James Anthony Froude ; and his speculation further attracted Alfred Tennyson, the Oliphants and Edward Maitland.
Hayes collaborated with director Alfred Hitchcock on four films: Rear Window ( for which he won an Edgar Award and an Oscar nomination ), To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry and The Man Who Knew Too Much.
He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, for showing that bacterial resistance to viruses ( phages ) is genetically inherited.
Rops's association with Baudelaire and with the art he represented won his work the admiration of many other writers, including Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Stéphane Mallarmé, Jules Barbey d ’ Aurevilly, and Joséphin Péladan.
Alfred and decisive
Æthelred and his brother, the future Alfred the Great, led a West Saxon army to Nottingham, but there was no decisive battle, and Burgred bought off the Vikings.
One fraction led by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz were avid followers of the teachings of the American historian Alfred Thayer Mahan and believed in building a “ balanced fleet ” centred around the battleship that would, if war came, seek out and win a decisive battle of annihilation ( Entscheidungsschlacht ) against the Royal Navy.
Brower's background in publishing proved decisive ; with the help of publisher Alfred Knopf, This Is Dinosaur was rushed into press.
Together with his chief of Staff, Feldmarschall-Leutnant Alfred Krauss, a very talented military theoretician with a decisive and vigorous character, he reorganized the hard hit 5th army.
The parish was part of the hundred of Whorwellsdown, and is believed to hold a place in English history, for it was probably here that King Alfred the Great won a decisive battle against the Danes at the Battle of Ethandun, thus saving the foundations of England.
Alfred and victory
With these lessons in mind, Alfred capitalised on the relatively peaceful years immediately following his victory at Ethandrun by focusing on an ambitious restructuring of his kingdom's military defences.
Alfred the Great's victory at Edington in 878 stemmed the Danish attack ; however, by then Northumbria had devolved into Bernicia and a Viking kingdom, Mercia had been split down the middle, and East Anglia ceased to exist as an Anglo-Saxon polity.
Alfred the Great managed to maintain his kingdom of Wessex and push back the Viking incursions, relieving the neighbouring kingdoms from the threat of the Danes following his famous victory over them at the Battle of Ethandun in 878.
* 878: Battle of Ethandun results in the victory of Alfred the Great over the Danish warlord Guthrum.
Following his victory at the Battle of Fisher's Hill Union general Philip Sheridan sent approximately 6, 000 troopers under Brigadier General Alfred Torbert into the Luray Valley.
According to the historian Asser, Guthrum ’ s initial battle with Alfred resulted in a victory, as he was able to capture “ the castellum ” as well as the ancient square earthworks known as the “ Wareham ” where a convent of nuns existed.
To give thanks for his victory, Alfred founded a monastery, Athelney Abbey, on the Isle in 888, which lasted until the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII in 1539, when the value of the rubble was put at £ 80.
Of the nine battles mentioned by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle during that year, only one was a West Saxon victory ; but in this year Alfred succeeded his brother Ethelred, who died after the Battle of Merton.
It is stated as being the scene of a great naval victory by King Alfred over the Danes: " This year came the Danish army into Exeter from Wareham ; whilst the navy sailed west about, until they met with a great mist at sea, and there perished one hundred and twenty ships at Swanwich.
Firstly, it was an important victory for the English won by someone other than Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex at the time who was spearheading the English resistance to the Viking invasions.
Credit for the victory at Cynwit – as revealed by Æthelweard-is due to Ealdorman Odda of Devon, who is mentioned neither in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle nor in Asser ’ s Life of King Alfred, most likely out of reverence for Alfred ’ s status as king.
Although this novel is about King Alfred, it gives due credit to Ealdorman Odda for this victory, although the description of the battle may not be very accurate, showing the Vikings as making a landing at night and being defeated immediately on the landing ground.
Alfred ’ s victory later that year saw nine of his new ships trap six Danish ships.
When, after the Saxon victory in the Battle of Ethandun in 878, the Saxon King Alfred the Great and Norse King Guthrum the Old agreed to partition England between them, the dividing line between their territories split what was to become Hertfordshire almost through the middle, along the line of the River Lea and then along Watling Street.
It is sometimes claimed locally that the White Horse was first cut into the chalk face as long ago as the year 878, to commemorate the victory of King Alfred the Great over the Danes in the Battle of Eðandun ( probably, but not certainly, at the nearby village of Edington ).
Either West Ilsley or East Ilsley may have been the site of the Battle of Ashdown ( Alfred the Great's victory against the Danes ), the etymology of the name Ilsley is that it may be derived from Hilde-Laege which means " Place of Conflict.
The etymology of the word Ilsley is that it is derived from Hilde-Laege which means " Place of conflict ", and either West or East Ilsley may be the site of the Battle of Ashdown, Alfred the Great's victory against the Danes.
In 1997 and 1998 he captained South Africa to victory in the Alfred Dunhill Cup in Scotland.
Three years later, the TMB adopted " Conquest ", a song composed by Alfred Newman for the film Captain from Castile as a victory march.
Further battles followed, including the Battle of Ashdown, when Alfred led the Saxon forces to victory, and the Battle of Basing, when the Danes prevailed.
1881 saw the club's first success in the Yorkshire Challenge Cup beating Huddersfield, Bradford and Halifax before an Alfred Newsome drop goal gave them victory over Wakefield Trinity in the final.
After the victory at Edington and resultant peace treaty, Alfred set about transforming his Kingdom of Wessex into a society on a full time war footing.
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