The actual location of the Catalaunian Fields is unclear: Historian Thomas Hodgkin located the site near Méry-sur-Seine, but current consensus places the battlefield at Châlons-en-Champagne.

Historian Alain Pigeard places overall losses of the Army of Silesia throughout this day between 9, 000 and 10, 000 men but the detail of these losses seems to suggest lighter casualties.

There was also a Chinese expedition to Bactria by Chang-k ' ien under the Emperor Wu of Han, recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian and Book of the Former Han, with additional evidence in the Book of the Later Han ; the identification of places and peoples behind transcriptions into Chinese is difficult, and several alternate interpretations have been proposed.

Historian Adrian Sherwin-White places the size of Lucullus ' force to 12, 000 seasoned legionaries ( composed of three legions ), and 4, 000 provincial cavalry and light infantry.

Historian Sir Hugh Thomas in his book " Conquest " reports the probable date of her death as 1551, deduced from letters he discovered in Spain alluding to her as alive in 1550 and deceased after 1551.

This date could be revised if the tomb of Qin Shi Huang is excavated and the account in the Records of the Grand Historian concerning a model map of the empire is proven to be true.

Historian and cartographer John P. Snyder has erroneously stated that a referendum was held on that date, but there was in fact no referendum and the people of Amwell knew nothing about the division until after the Legislature passed the bill.

Historian Raymond Thorp gave his birth date as April 10, but Thorp did not provide any documentation for that date.

Historian and contemporary Nabíl-i-A ` zam cites that it was in 1817, whilst others claim an earlier date of 1814.

Historian D. P. Kirby suggests that Wiglaf's death occurred in 839, basing this date on the known chronology of the reigns of Beorhtwulf and Burgred, the next two Mercian kings.

The primary sources of information about Lü Buwei date from the first century BCE: Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and Liu Xiang's Zhan Guo Ce (" Strategies of the Warring States ") and Shuoyuan ( 說苑, " Garden of Stories ").

Historian Richard Pankhurst offers the date of 1456 for the date of the founding of this church, providing a plausible argument that the light in the sky was Halley's Comet, which could have been in Shewa that year, although the traditional dates ( 10th day of the month of Maggabit, i. e. 6 or 7 March ) do not coincide with the days that the comet was most visible ( 13 through 17 June ).

Historian Richard Hofstadter ( 1948 ) emphasizes that Calhoun ’ s conception of " minority " was very different from the minorities of a century later:

Historian Frank Dikötter asserts that " coercion, terror, and systematic violence were the very foundation of the Great Leap Forward " and it " motivated one of the most deadly mass killings of human history.

Historian David Starkey writes, " He may have even sexually abused her ; at the very least he abused his power.

* Elizabeth Kostova's novel The Historian includes a very intense scene set in the interior of the Radcliffe Camera.

Historian Lillian Faderman declared, " Its very establishment in the midst of witch-hunts and police harassment was an act of courage, since members always had to fear that they were under attack, not because of what they did, but merely because of who they were.

Historian Robert C. White suggests that the " very eminent person " written of by Echard was his colleague Edmund Bohun, and chose not to mention Bohun because he became associated with the Jacobite movement.

Historian Alexandra Walsham notes that the modern understanding of the word " toleration " may be very different from its historic meaning.

Historian Pedro Tomás de Córdova described the terrain as " high, and mountainous, and very healthy ".

Historian Reitlinger characterized Nebe as " a very questionable member of the Resistance Circle at the time of the great bomb plot.

* Bahram Moshiri Historian and scientist, his shows about Islam are very popular in Iran.

Historian Homer Dubs claim that the crossbow firing mechanism " was almost as complex as a rifle bolt, and could only be reproduced by very competent mechanics.

Historian Gérard Bouchard, who also published a book critical of Lionel Groulx, has been very critical of The Traitor and the Jew.

" Historian David Frith writes that Verity was " probably the cricketer admired above all others ", while Bob Wyatt believed the two men were very similar in outlook, temperament and desire to succeed.

Historian Ronald Hyam comments that " Ceylon furnished MacDonald with a lethal combination of a military command which was inactive and uninteresting, and a community of boys who were interesting and very active.

Historian C. Schweitzer is of the opinion that the Torvi aqueduct is in itself a very credible engineering achievement of Adil Shahis.

Historian John Horn wrote that if Grant had been on the scene, he might have very well ordered an attack on Petersburg at this point, similar to the tactic he would use in April 1865 that caused the fall of the city, taking advantage of the weakly defended lines vacated by the heavy force that Lee had sent to Reams Station.

Noted Historian Dr. D. C. Sarkar during his visit, found some more evidences on the basis of which, he also confirmed that this place was very important " Krimila " Subject during Pal administration.

Historian Susan E. Kelly regards the traditional first six abbots as fictional: " There is good reason to think that in most cases their names were simply plucked from early charters available in the abbey's archive, the majority of which would seem to have had no connection with an early minister at Abingdon ; there is no very convincing evidence that the historians had access to independent, reliable sources of information.

The written history of China can be found as early as the Shang Dynasty ( c. 1700 – 1046 BC ), although ancient historical texts such as the Records of the Grand Historian ( ca.

Historian Frank McLynn argues that John's early years at Fontevrault, combined with his relatively advanced education, may have turned him against the church.

Historian Walter Rodney has searched the reports of the early Portuguese travelers to the area and found mention in them of only one, quite particular, kind of slavery among the Africans.

Historian Robert W. Morrow speculated that much of the early criticism, which he called " surprisingly intense ", stemmed from cultural and historical reasons in regards to, as he put it, " the place of children in American society and the controversies about television's effects on them ".

Historian and novelist Deborah Harkness, set much of the early part of her 2011 novel, A Discovery of Witches, in the Bodleian, particularly the Selden End.

Historian Ian Jones suggests the story still had an " indefinable appeal " for Australians in the early twentieth century.

Historian Ian Harford suggested that the canal may also have been conceived as an " imaginative response to problems of depression and unemployment " that Manchester was experiencing during the early 1880s.

Historian Adrian Cioroianu defined the early Codreanu as a " quasi-demagogue agitator ".

Historian Jerah Johnson notes: “ Because most African slaves brought to Louisiana were males, great numbers married Indian women, whom the French colonials had early enslaved as food growers, cooks, bedfellows, and translators.

The Zhòu characters, now usually called large seal script ( dàzhuàn 大篆 " large seal "), were taken from the no-longer extant Shĭ Zhòu Piān ( 史籀篇 ), an early copybook traditionally attributed to Shĭ Zhòu, or Historian Zhou, an official in the court of King Xuan of Zhou ( r. 827-782 BCE ).

Occurrences in early Chinese histories, such as the ( 91 BCE ) Shiji " Records of the Grand Historian " and ( 82 CE ) Hanshu " Book of Han ", predominantly refer to the " Mushroom of Immortality ; elixir of life ".

Historian Ronald Hutton noted that the low magic of the cunning folk was one of the lesser influences upon the development of the Neopagan religion of Wicca and related witchcraft-based groups in the early twentieth century.

Historian Jonathan Spiro has argued that Grant's interests in conservationism and eugenics were not unrelated: both are hallmarks of the early 20th-century Progressive movement, and both assume the need for various types of stewardship over their charges.

In the Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian wrote that Di Xin, in the early part of his reign, had abilities which surpassed those of the ordinary man, was quick-witted and quick-tempered.

Historian Tim Judah notes that in the early stage of the war the initial preponderance of Serbs in the Partisans meant in effect a Serbian civil war had broken out.

( 1948 ) the Official Historian J. E. Edmonds wrote that Sir Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force and General Gough the Fifth Army commander were at cross purposes before and during the early part of the Third Ypres campaign.

Historian Robert Powell opined that Wickliffe's break from party loyalty may explain his lack of committee appointments in his early years in the House.

Historian David J. Eicher discounts both the Battle of Fairfax Court House and the Battle of Philippi as " mere skirmishes " ( despite his characterization of the former engagement as " ostensibly the first land battle of the war ") and says the first " real land battle of the conflict " was the Battle of Big Bethel, although after a brief summary of the Battle of Big Bethel he characterizes the early Civil War engagements without apparent distinction as " these first minor skirmishes.

Historian John Boswell suggested that the men may have been considered united in a rite of early Christian " same-sex union ".

Historian Rebecca Manley describes these early evacuations as being characterized by “ three phenomena: the ' flight ' of officials, the flight of the population, and ' panic '”.

It was described in one of the early classics of Chinese literature, th Shiji, or the Records of the Grand Historian.

The book is part of early four historiographies of the Twenty-Four Histories canon, together with the Records of the Grand Historian, Book of Han and Records of the Three Kingdoms.

Already famous in academic circles, he was invited to court and nominated Royal Astronomer and Historian by King John II of Portugal, a position which he held until the early reign of Manuel I.

Among his works is Phoenix Triumphant, a book about the early history of the Luftwaffe with much documentation provided by the Aviation Historian Alex Vanags-Baginskis.