In 84 the Caledonian tribes, led by Calgacus ( known as " the swordsman "), were defeated at the Battle of Mons Graupius by the Romans ' superior tactics and use of professional troops.

Dutch speakers tend to refer to the team as " Bergen ", the Dutch name for Mons.

Despite this, he was in and out of the team, according to manager Mons Ivar Mjelde because of defensive considerations.

Mars has the largest volcano in the Solar System called Olympus Mons, which is more than three times the height of Mount Everest, with a diameter of 520 km ( 323 miles ).

It stands about 1200 km from the other three large Martian shield volcanoes, collectively called the Tharsis Montes ( Arsia Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Ascraeus Mons ).

The hill has been called the Vatican Hill ( in Latin, Mons Vaticanus ) since long before Christianity existed.

Unwilling to send back his warlike companions to their wives, families, and possessions in Britain, he conferred upon them numerous districts from the lake on the summit of Mons lovis, to the city called Cant Guic, and to the western Tumulus, that is Cruc Occident.

In the 7th century, Saint Ghislain and two of his disciples built an oratory or chapel dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul near the Mons hill, at a place called Ursidongus, now known as Saint-Ghislain.

Image: 070204 ( 65 ) Mons. JPG | The house called Blan Levrie.

Image: 070204 ( 75 ) Mons. JPG | The house called de la Toison d ’ Or.

Originally its communal organization, Mons was a City Hall called " House of Peace.

The children of Paganus Ruet ( argued by modern-day genealogist Lindsay Brook and followed by biographer Alison Weir as " probably christened as Gilles ") included Katherine, her sister Philippa, a son, Walter, and the eldest sister, Isabel ( also called Elizabeth ) de Roet ( Canoness of the convent of St. Waudru's, Mons, c. 1366 ).

In the 7th century, with two unknown disciples Ghislain made a clearing in the vicinity of Castrilocus ( now Mons ), later taking up his abode at a place called Ursidongus, where he built an oratory or chapel dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul.

The ancient Romans called them Albanus Mons.

* Alban Hills, southeast of Rome were known as Albanus Mons to the Romans, and Lago Albano in the Alban Hills was called Albanus Lacus

In conjunction with the battle of the 17 April, these battles are called Les Trois Combats de Mons.

In Roman times, the place was called Mons Ferinus ( mountain of the ferocious animals ).

While the main campus of Université catholique de Louvain is based at Louvain-la-Neuve, it also comprises a small campus in Brussels, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, which until recently was called " Louvain-en-Woluwe " ( the authorities of the UCL tend to prefer nowadays to refer to it as " UCL-Brussels Woluwe ") for the faculty of medicine of the university, a campus in Mons called " UCL-Mons ", a minor installation in Charleroi with 133 students ( 2011 ) " UCL-Charleroi ", an architectural school in Tournai " UCL-Tournai " with 540 students ( 2011 ), an architectural school in Brussels " UCL-Bruxelles Saint Gilles " with 570 students ( 2011 ).

She went to the SHAPE High School in Mons in Belgium, then Barne Barton Secondary Modern school in St Budeaux and Stoke Damerel High School for Girls ( now called Stoke Damerel Community College ) in Stoke, Plymouth.

Soldiers of the BEF who fought at Mons later became eligible for a campaign medal, the 1914 Star, often colloquially called the Mons Star, honouring troops who had fought in Belgium or France between 5 August and 22 November 1914.

Originally called ' Krak de Montreal ' or ' Mons Regalis ', it was named in honour of the king's own contribution to its construction ( Mont Royal ).

The second major type of lava flows on the flanks of Alba Mons are called tube-and channel-fed flows, or crested flows.

* 1914 – World War I: the Battle of Mons ; the British Army begins withdrawal.

The second question is the meaning of the word avita: Gildas could have meant " ancestors ", or intended it to mean more specifically " grandfather " — thus indicating Ambrosius lived about a generation before the Battle of Mons Badonicus.

He saw action at the Battle of Le Cateau that month and during the retreat from Mons.

The terrified local Thracians took refuge with their families and animal herds on the slopes of Mons Donuca, the highest mountain in Thrace ( Mt.

One account from the book describes it being prepared for the casualties at Mons where " the orderlies were just beginning to make Bovril for the wounded, when the Germans deliberately shelled the bearers and ambulance wagons as they were bringing the wounded into the hospital.

Magnentius was defeated at the battles of Mursa Major and Mons Seleucus, committing suicide after the latter.

In 353, Constantius and Magnentius met for what would be the final time at the Battle of Mons Seleucus in southern Gaul, and again, Constantius emerged the victor.

These peoples captured territory in the east and south of England, but at about the end of the fifth century, a British victory at the battle of Mons Badonicus halted the Anglo-Saxon advance for fifty years.

The peace following the battle of Mons Badonicus is attested partly by Gildas, a monk, who wrote De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae or On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain during the middle of the sixth century.

One possible explanation is, that this annal records a reconquest of land that was lost to the Britons in the campaigns ending in the battle of Mons Badonicus.

In modern accounts, the site has been located between the Mons Aureus ( Seone, west of Smederevo ) and Viminacium, near modern Belgrade, Serbia.

In the summer of 84, Agricola faced the armies of the Caledonians, led by Calgacus, at the Battle of Mons Graupius.

An early instance was ordered by Louis of Nassau during operations near Mons in Hainaut, when 500 infantry were transported this way.

These groups captured territory in the east and south of England, but at about the end of the fifth century, a British victory at the battle of Mons Badonicus halted the Anglo-Saxon advance for fifty years.

Kent appears to have been conquered by the Anglo-Saxons prior to Mons Badonicus.

In Thrace, Hera and Zeus turned King Haemus and Queen Rhodope into mountains, the Balkan ( Haemus Mons ) and Rhodope mountain chains respectively, for their hubris in comparing themselves to the gods.

With the XXth Valeria Victrix legion, Agricola defeated the Caledonians in 84 at the Battle of Mons Graupius, in northern Scotland.

After the defeat and death of Magnentius in the Battle of Mons Seleucus in 353, Constantius II dispatched his chief imperial notary Paulus Catena to Britain to hunt down Magnentius ' supporters.

He spent the war on the Western Front, serving in the retreat from Mons and was wounded at First Ypres and invalided home.

After a second battle at Mons Lactarius in October that year, the resistance of the Ostrogoths was finally broken.

These culminate in the Battle of Mons Badonicus, or Mount Badon, where he is said to have single-handedly killed 960 men.

* Jürgen Alex, Hermann Flessner, Wilhelm Mons, Horst Zuse: Konrad Zuse: Der Vater des Computers.

Succinctly put, the legions were armed and trained for close-order combat while the auxiliary forces, just as numerous, were more accustomed to open order fighting, although they could be employed as the legions were ( e. g. at Mons Graupius ) if circumstances demanded this.