In 782, when Charlemagne organized Saxony as a Frankish province and ordered forced conversion of the pagan Saxons of Widukind, the Saxons resumed warfare against the Franks.

Lieutenant Colonel Franks ordered his forces to split up into small groups and make their own way back to the Allied lines away.

Lieutenant General Frederick M. Franks, Jr., the commander of the VII Corps, ordered Colonel Don Holder, the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment commander, to locate the enemy and to avoid becoming decisively engaged.

He then expelled the Jesuits in 1633, and in 1665 Fasilides ordered all Jesuit books ( the Books of the Franks ) be burned.

Our way lay through continuous farms and ordered settlements, whose inhabitants were all Muslims, living comfortably within the Franks ...

In early November, 1990, Franks was ordered to deploy the VII Corps to Saudi Arabia to join the international coalition preparing to drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait ; and on 24 February 1991, the Desert Storm land assault began, with VII Corps making the main attack.

When the ceasefire was implemented, only then did Gen. Schwarzkopf personally contact Gen. Franks, and instead of congratulating him for the VII Corps incredible success ( one of, if not THE largest, fastest, most successful armor maneuvers in history ) he wanted to know why a particular highway hadn't been " seized " as he had ordered.

" one in this country probably was more surprised than I when weapons of mass destruction were not used against our troops as they moved toward Baghdad ," said Franks on 2 December 2005.

* March 2 – Louis V becomes King of the Franks.

* March 2 – Lothair, King of the Franks

#" I'm a One-Woman Man " ( Tillman Franks, Johnny Horton ) – 2: 16

In 2005 he played the character Kevin Franks in the film Basic Instinct 2 alongside Sharon Stone.

Lt General Franks accepted that recommendation and, beginning around 2 a. m. two brigades of the 1st Infantry Division passed through the Regiment ’ s positions along the 70 Easting.

As a comparison, the company today has annual sales exceeding 2. 2 billion Swiss Franks and employs over 36, 500 staff all over the world.

In July 2007, it was announced that Franks would play the role of Tanya Branning's sister, Rainie Cross in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders for a week-long stint from 2 August 2007.

* Tales from the Singal Box, Part 2 Lowfield Junction, D. L. Franks.

In July 1945 Franks was informed by the French that the bodies of some SAS men had been found in the French occupation zone at Gaggenau.

In 1071 Romanos again took the field and advanced with possibly 30, 000 men, including a contingent of the Cuman Turks as well as contingents of Franks and Normans, under Ursel de Baieul, into Armenia.

The family became Counts of Paris under Odo and Dukes of the Franks under Robert, possessing large parts of Neustria.

Charles Martel () ( 23 August 686 – 22 October 741 ), also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum ( 737 – 43 ) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks.

Having unified the Franks under his banner, Charles was determined to punish the Saxons who had invaded Austrasia.

The Visigoths under Alaric I sacked Rome in 410, defeated Attila at the Battle of the Catalunian Plains in 451, and founded a Kingdom in Aquitaine which was pushed to Hispania by the Franks in 507, converted to Catholicism by the late sixth century, and in the early eighth century conquered by the Muslim Moors.

Of all of the Germanic peoples, the Franks would rise to a position of Hegemony over western Europe, the Frankish Empire reaching its peak under Charlemagne around AD 800, when he was crowned Emperor of the West.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Franks created an empire under the Merovingian kings and subjugated the other Germanic tribes.

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.

From 919 to 936, the Germanic peoples – Franks, Saxons, Swabians, and Bavarians – were united under Henry the Fowler, Duke of Saxony, who took the title of king.

The advance into Western Europe was only stopped in what is now north-central France by the West Germanic Franks under Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours in 732.

In 486, Clovis I, leader of the Salian Franks, defeated Syagrius at Soissons and subsequently united most of northern and central Gaul under his rule.

The Euthiones are mentioned in a poem by Venantius Fortunatus ( 583 ) as being under the suzerainty of Chilperic I of the Franks.

In the 7th and 8th centuries, the Franks, under the Carolingian dynasty, established an empire covering much of western Europe ; the Carolingian Empire endured until the 9th century, when it succumbed to the pressures of invasion — the Vikings from the north ; the Magyars from the east, and the Saracens from the south.

The Merovingian dynasty was founded by Childeric I ( c. 457 – 481 ) the son of Merovech, leader of the Salian Franks, but it was his famous son Clovis I ( 481 – 511 ) who united all of Gaul under Merovingian rule.

Merovingian law was not universal law equally applicable to all ; it was applied to each man according to his origin: Ripuarian Franks were subject to their own Lex Ripuaria, codified at a late date ( Beyerle and Buchner 1954 ), while the so-called Lex Salica ( Salic Law ) of the Salian clans, first tentatively codified in 511 ( Rouche 1987 p 423 ) was invoked under medieval exigencies as late as the Valois era.

* 456 – The Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of the Roman emperor Avitus, invade Spain with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic I and Gondioc.

Although Gregory stated that he was willing to give up his allegiance to the Eastern Empire and place himself under the protection of the Franks, Charles made no promise to assist.

In Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, veteran defense and Pentagon reporter Thomas E. Ricks echoes criticism from officers who had served under Franks who put forth that, while tactically sound, he lacked the strategic mindset and overall intellect necessary for the task.

Extending their authority into Hispania at the expense of the Suevi and Vandals, their rule in Gaul was ended by the Franks under Clovis I at the Battle of Vouillé in 507.

However, in 507, the Franks under Clovis I defeated the Visigoths in the Vouillé and wrested control of Aquitaine.

Other Visigoths, refusing to adopt the Muslim faith or live under their rule, fled north to the kingdom of the Franks, and Visigoths played key roles in the empire of Charlemagne a few generations later.

The Kingdom of the Franks under Charlemagne was particularly hard-hit by these raiders, who could sail up the Seine with near impunity.

Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men defeat a large army of Moors under the governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, who is killed during the battle.

* The Franks under king Chlothar I march against the Thuringii with his nephew Theudebert I.