Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

Carl was still Charles A. Sandburg.

He `` legitimized '' Paula for Lilian Steichen, and it was Paula who insisted on Carl for Charles.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

The country was now full of Gazettes and Samuel C. Atkinson and Charles Alexander, who had just taken over Franklin's old paper, desired a more distinctive name.

Somehow Dr. Charles Leale was forced through the mob and squeezed out into the dingy corridor.

So Charles was dead.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.

Charles Thiot, a splendid Georgia soldier, differed from most of his comrades in the ranks in that he was the owner of a large plantation, well-educated, and nearly fifty years of age.

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.

So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.

The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.

Vincent G. Ierulli has been appointed temporary assistant district attorney, it was announced Monday by Charles E. Raymond, District Attorney.

The victim, Norman B. Wiley, 38, of the 900 block North Charles Street, was treated for cuts at Franklin Square Hospital after the robbery.

Charles Reynolds of Pumpkin Ridge was rabbit showmanship champion.

Anne said it wasn't surprising because Charles was antisocial, a lone wolf, and completely one-sided.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

In the short and disastrous war of 1805 Archduke Charles commanded what was intended to be the main army in Italy, but events made Germany the decisive theatre of operations ; Austria sustained defeat on the Danube, and the archduke was defeated by Massena in the Battle of Caldiero.

The army reforms were not yet completed by the war of 1809, in which Charles acted as commander in chief, yet even so it proved a far more formidable opponent than the old and was only defeated after a desperate struggle involving Austrian victories and large loss of life on both sides.

Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).

Protestants, just defeated by Charles V, refused to attend as well.

In 718, Chilperic responded to Charles ' new ascendancy by making an alliance with Odo the Great ( or Eudes, as he is sometimes known ), the duke of Aquitaine, who had made himself independent during the civil war in 715, but was again defeated, at the Battle of Soissons, by Charles.

Between 718 and 723, Charles secured his power through a series of victories: he won the loyalty of several important bishops and abbots ( by donating lands and money for the foundation of abbeys such as Echternach ), he subjugated Bavaria and Alemannia, and he defeated the pagan Saxons.

The Parliamentary victors of the First English Civil War failed to negotiate a constitutional settlement with the defeated King Charles I.

In 1547, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V defeated the Schmalkaldic League, an alliance of Protestant rulers.

The Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the " Bonnie Prince Charlie " of legend, were defeated at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

Charles had defeated Conradin's uncle Manfred, King of Sicily in the Battle of Benevento on 26 February 1266.

The mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, defeated that raiding party at the Battle of Tours ( although the battle took place between Tours and Poitiers ) and earned respect and power within the Frankish Kingdom.

Charles VII ( reigned 1422 – 1461 ) established the first French standing army, the Compagnies d ' ordonnance, and defeated the Plantagenets once at Patay ( 1429 ) and again, using cannons, at Formigny ( 1450 ).

* 1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.

So it was that the armies of the Frankish ruler and warlord Charles Martel, which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732, were still largely infantry armies, the elites riding to battle but dismounting to fight, providing a hard core for the levy of the infantry warbands.

Under Charles Martel's leadership, the Franks defeated the Moors at the Battle of Tours in 732, limiting the expansion of Islam onto the European continent.

Having defeated and slain Manfred in the great Battle of Benevento, Charles established himself firmly in the kingdom of Sicily at the conclusive Battle of Tagliacozzo, in which Conradin, the last of the house of Hohenstaufen, was taken prisoner.

* 1745 – Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart

* 1651 – Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester – Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.

After his brother Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald defeated his forces at the Battle of Fontenay ( 841 ) and sealed their alliance with the Oaths of Strasbourg ( 842 ), Lothair became willing to negotiate instead of continuing the warfare.

* March 2 – Battle of La Guaira: a British expeditionary fleet under Sir Charles Knowles is defeated by the Spanish.