On Arnulf's death in 899, he was succeeded as a king of the East Franks by his son by his wife Ota ( died 903 ), Louis the Child.

From their fortresses in the Gharb area ( now in Aley District ) of southern Mount Lebanon Governorate, the Tanukhs led their incursions into the Phoenician coast and finally succeeded in holding Beirut and the marine plain against the Franks.

They suggest there was a leadership void at U. S. Central Command because his two deputies, Michael Delong and John Abizaid, were at odds with each other until Abizaid succeeded Franks in the middle of the summer of 2003.

* Pepin the Short ( 714 – 768 ), king of the Franks since 751, dies ; he is succeeded by his sons Carloman ( eastern Franks ) and Charles, aka Charlemagne ( western Franks ).

* October 22 – Charles Martel ( b. 688 ), major domus ( i. e., Mayor of the Palace ) of the Franks ; succeeded by his son Pepin the Short ( 714 – 768 )

He is succeeded by his 15-year-old son Clovis who becomes ruler of the Salian Franks in the province Gallia Belgica ( modern Belgium ) until his death in 511.

* Clovis II is succeeded by Clotaire III as king of the Franks.

His son Clovis succeeded him as king of the Franks.

The city did not easily recover from this blow, and Padua was still weak when the Franks succeeded the Lombards as masters of northern Italy.

Charles the Bald died in 877 crossing the Pass of Mont Cenis, and was succeeded by his son, Louis the Stammerer as King of the Western Franks, but the title of Holy Roman Emperor lapsed.

Abizaid succeeded General Tommy Franks as Commander, USCENTCOM, on July 7, 2003, and was also elevated to the rank of four-star general the same week.

After the fall of Arbogastes, his son Arigius succeeded in establishing a hereditary countship at Trier and after the fall of the usurper Constantine III some Franks supported the usurper Jovinus ( 411 ).

Odo was succeeded by his son Hunald, who after carrying on a war against the Franks under Pippin the Short, retired to a convent, leaving both the kingdom and the conflict to Waiter, or Guaifer.

On the death of the younger Charles in 866, his brother Louis the Stammerer succeeded to the kingdom, and when, in 877, Louis became king of the Franks, Aquitaine was united to the Frankish crown.

In 1786, the attacks succeeded and Franks was dismissed from the diplomatic corps.

This source does not relate whether Marcomer succeeded, but from other later sources that recall the account of Liber Historiae Francorum, the impression may be gained that Pharamond was regarded as the first king of the Franks.

2010 < http :// www. oxfordartonline. com / subscriber / article / grove / art / T029737 >.</ ref > In 1892 he succeeded in raising the £ 8, 000 needed to buy the Royal Gold Cup ; " to Franks this was his greatest acquisition, and the one of which he was most proud ".

Franks, after graduating from the Armed Forces Staff College, was posted to The Pentagon in 1976, where he served as an Army Inspector General in the Investigations Division.

From 1995-1997, General Franks commanded the 2nd Infantry Division, Korea.

General Franks ' retirement was announced on Thursday, May 22, 2003.

General Franks ' awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal ; Distinguished Service Medal ( two awards ); Legion of Merit ( four awards ); Bronze Star with Valor device and two oak leaf clusters ; Purple Heart ( two oak leaf clusters ); Air Medal with Valor Device ; Army Commendation Medal with Valor Device ; and a number of U. S. and foreign service awards.

For instance, they make a disputed claim that Franks threatened to fire General William Wallace, commander of the Army's V Corps, for saying to the press during that war that the enemy the U. S. was facing was different from the enemy the military had planned against.

General Tommy Franks declares Operation Anaconda over, terming it " an unqualified and complete success.

People of note born in Wynnewood include musician Roy Milton, General Tommy Franks, who commanded the invasion forces of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq, and Donna Shirley, who led the Mars Pathfinder project at JPL and James Allen, former NFL running back for the Chicago Bears and Houston Texans.

U. S. Congressmen Sue Myrick ( R-NC ), Trent Franks ( R-AZ ), John Shadegg ( R-AZ ), and Paul Broun ( R-GA ) wrote Attorney General Eric Holder on October 21, 2009, that they were very concerned about CAIR's relationships with terrorist groups, and requesting that the Department of Justice ( DOJ ) provide each Congressman a summary of DOJ's evidence and findings that led DOJ to name CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial.

Following the 2003 Iraq War and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, he assumed command of Central Command from General Tommy Franks.

General Tommy Franks later acknowledged that the dramatic increase in offensive sorties was an attempt to destroy the Iraqi defenses in much the same way as the air strikes at the beginning of the Gulf War had.

A U. S. Department of Defense official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January 2001 and U. S. General Tommy Franks visited the country in May 2001, conveying a message from the Bush administration that the US considered Tajikistan " a strategically significant country ".

General Tommy Franks, who led both the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the Iraq War, once called Feith " the dumbest fucking guy on the planet.

However, Ned Franks, a Canadian parliamentary expert, maintains that the Prime Minister still has the right to advise the Governor General to dissolve the parliament early and drop the writs for an election.

* U. S. General Tommy Franks reportedly estimated soon after the invasion that there had been 30, 000 Iraqi casualties as of April 9, 2003.

Franks was National Party candidate for for the 2008 General Election, being number 60 on the National Party list.

David Salisbury Franks ( Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1740 – 1793, Philadelphia ) was aide-de-camp for General Benedict Arnold during the American War of Independence.

After Franks was returned to active duty, General George Washington had him assigned to his command.

Seeking to clear his name definitively, Franks asked General Washington to initiate another court-martial, one that would investigate — rather than simply drop — the scurrilous charges against him.

Jones recently traveled to Iraq to meet with troops stationed there and U. S. General Tommy Franks.

According to General Tommy Franks, the commander of the U. S. military in the 2003 Iraq conflict, April Fool, an American officer working undercover as a diplomat, was approached by an Iraqi intelligence agent.

* David Franks ( 1740 – 1793 ), aide-de-camp for General Benedict Arnold during the American War of Independence

Franks, In The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, V. 11, pp. 35 – 36.

The Lawrence-themed play Ross by Terence Rattigan featured another Thomas-like character named Franks, who hectors General Allenby and Lawrence for photographs and interviews after the fall of Jerusalem.

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.

As the only surviving adult son of Charlemagne and Hildegard, he became the sole ruler of the Franks after his father's death in 814, a position which he held until his death, save for the period 833 – 34, during which he was deposed.

The election of Eugene II was a triumph for the Franks, and they subsequently resolved to improve their position.

Meanwhile the Franks under Marcomer had taken the opportunity and invaded northern Gaul, at the same time further weakening Maximus ' position.

Some governors general, their staff, government publications, and constitutional scholars like Edward McWhinney and C. E. S. Franks have, however, referred to the position of governor general as that of Canada's head of state, though sometimes qualilfying the assertion with de facto or effective ; Franks has hence recommended that the governor general be named officially as the head of state.

These maneuvers had been favorable to the Franks in general, but posed a serious threat to Carloman's position.

Though reports of what happened at this meeting are biased due to personal feuds among the Franks, it seems Raymond argued that a march from Acre to Tiberias was exactly what Saladin wanted while Sephoria was a strong position for the Crusaders to defend.

Though the Mamluks were the traditional enemies of the Franks, the Barons of Acre recognized the Mongols as the more immediate menace, and so the Crusaders opted for a position of cautious neutrality between the two forces.

Pepin solidified his position in 754 by entering into an alliance with Pope Stephen II, who presented the king of the Franks a copy of the forged " Donation of Constantine " at Paris and in a magnificent ceremony at Saint-Denis anointed the king and his family and declared him patricius Romanorum (" protector of the Romans ").

ACT New Zealand MP Stephen Franks was critical of the remarks, stating " I don't think she was regarded as one of the most weighty judges and she's putting herself into a difficult constitutional position by weighing in in this area ", as was the Sensible Sentencing Trust.

The first king of the Franks who may have been close to this position was Clovis I, but after his death his empire was divided again amongst his sons, who ruled again simultaneously.

During the 6th and 7th centuries the growing menace of the Lombards and the Franks, and the split between eastern and western Christendom caused by iconoclasm and the acrimonious rivalry between the Pope and the Patriarch of Constantinople, made the position of the exarch more and more untenable.

Franks was given a grant of land for his services and a position in the Bank of the United States, but he died in poverty.

With the shop featuring designs from many of London's new and established fashion designers, and with Franks herself in the perfect position to secure plenty of favourable media and press coverage, the boutique was a successful part of London's booming fashion industry.

Reichenbach im Vogtland originated as a settlement of the Franks and thanks its early growth to its convenient position in a valley near Mylau Castle.

After Khalil liquidated his opponents and secured his position he was ready to complete the work which his father did not finish, namely the recapturing of the last strongholds of the Franks situated on the Syrian coast.

Franks served as the Chairman for the Catoosa Citizens for Literacy in 2002-04 and he took that position again in 2007-09 after serving as co-chair for two years.

By the 490s, he had conquered all the Frankish kingdoms to the west of the River Maas except for the Ripuarian Franks and was in a position to make the city of Paris his capital.

When Gibbs " retired ", and Tony gained his position as leader for a short while, Tony often slapped the team members in a similar fashion ; in the episode " Hiatus ( Part II )", Mike Franks is shown slapping Gibbs in the same manner in a flashback.