In 1729, a claim was made to St. Croix by the Danes who ( in an ironic twist ) claimed it had been sold to them by the French.

They came to Medina showing Great Danes and didn't leave until the restaurant was sold in 2007.

He believes that this style arose because the export policy of the Danish food sector was to use the Danes as a " gutter " for the products that were left over when the bacon and butter were sold abroad.

In 1221, Vironians took part in failed attempt to oust Danes who had built a fortress in the place of modern Tallinn in the neighboring province of Revelia.

Originally established by Danes on 13th century, it is the oldest church in Tallinn and mainland Estonia.

The first church was made of wood and built there most likely already in 1219 when the Danes invaded Tallinn.

The Danes then raided along the coast before returning home.

The Danes tookking advantage of Slavic revolt and invaded the March of Schleswig along the Empire's northern border while the Sorb Slavs invade and conquered the March of Zeitz from Saxon control.

In response, King Æthelred of Wessex, along with his brother Alfred marched against the Danes, who were positioned behind fortifications in Nottingham, but were unable to draw them into battle.

He is apparently the same Bishop Henry who died at the Battle of Fotevik in 1134, fighting along with the Danes after being banished from Sweden.

From about 889 the Kettering area, along with much of Northamptonshire ( and at one point almost all of England except for Athelney marsh in Somerset ), was conquered by the Danes and became part of the Danelaw, with the ancient trackway of Watling Street serving as the border, until being recaptured by the English under the Wessex king Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great, in 917.

Danesfield Camp also known as Danes Ditches is located slightly further along the road to the east near to the village of Hurley.

The other Scandinavian churches celebrated this along with the Icelandic church and many of the new cathedral's items are gifts of theirs ; for example, Gerður Helgadóttir's extensive stained glass windows are a gift from the Danes.

( The official chief rabbi, Dr. Max Friediger, had already been detained as a " hostage " on the night of August 29, 1943, along with some 100 prominent Danes, including a dozen Jews, in a camp near Copenhagen.

Both in 1644 and 1645 De With, along with an enormous convoy of merchantmen — 702 on the return voyage of the latter year — forced the Sound against the Danes, who had tried to impose higher toll rates.

Since most of the Danes were unable to keep pace with the faster Dutch ships, the race for advantageous position along the coast had also contributed to the scattering of the allied fleet.

Many of its early residents were English or Scandinavian origin, mostly Norwegians and Danes, along with a both a significant Polish and Jewish population that followed.

He is apparently the same Bishop Henry who died at the Battle of Fotevik in 1134, fighting along with the Danes after being banished from Sweden.

The Swedes turned and sailed south along the west side of Fehmarn, inshore of a shoal, while the Danes followed a little further offshore.

The town is several centuries old and has witnessed both the growth and decline of the feudal system, the coming of the Danes and their settlement and then a cultural renaissance ( known as the Bengal Renaissance ) initiated by the British following the construction of the east Indian railway, along with subsequent industrial development.

They obtained the parwana by paying fifty thousand rupees in cash to Nawab Alivardi Khan, along with many gifts, acquiring three bighas of land at Sripur on the riverfront and then another fifty-seven bighas at Akna for the building of a new factory and port, which the Danes governed from Tranquebar.

8, 402 Swedes, along with 1, 010 Danes and 895 Norwegians fought together with the Finns.

There is some slight evidence for Viking use of the area, at least as a seasonal camp, as the Danes of Limerick made a number of devastating raids in the area in the 9th and 10th centuries, and though the annalistic evidence is ambiguous, seem to have made some of semi-permanent camp along the river or in Lough Corrib.

It was founded in 1161 by Bishop Absalon, later the founder of Copenhagen, and is the site of Sorø Academy ( Danish Sorø Akademi ) and Sorø Klosterkirke, the church where Absalon is buried, along with other notable Danes, including royalty.

He died, along with several other Saxon noblemen, in a battle against the Vikings ( probably Danes ) on 2 February 880.

Defeating the Danes gave the Hanseatic League a monopoly on the sea trading in the Baltic Sea and along the whole coast of Europe.

Traveling through the South -- over 16,000 miles -- with two Great Danes, an Afghan, and a Persian kitten, we've worked up a regular routine for acceptance at motels.

While he was busy with the burial ceremonies for his brother, the Danes defeated the English in his absence at an unnamed spot, and then again in his presence at Wilton in May.

Accordingly, he negotiated a peace which involved an exchange of hostages and oaths, which the Danes swore on a " holy ring " associated with the worship of Thor.

There, Alfred blockaded them, and with a relief fleet having been scattered by a storm, the Danes were forced to submit.

While he was in talks with Hastein, the Danes at Appledore broke out and struck northwestwards.

In contrast, the Danes preferred to choose easy targets, mapping cautious forays designed to avoid risking all their accumulated plunder with high-stake attacks for more.

Once inside the fortification, Alfred realised, the Danes enjoyed the advantage, better situated to outlast their opponents or crush them with a counter attack as the provisions and stamina of the besieging forces waned.

When that occurred, the Danes rushed back to their boats, which being lighter, with shallower drafts, were freed before Alfred's ships.

Kiernan's reasoning has in part to do with the much-discussed political context of the poem: it has been held by most scholars, until recently, that the poem was composed in the 8th century on the assumption that a poem eliciting sympathy for the Danes could not have been composed by Anglo-Saxons during the Viking Ages of the 9th and 10th centuries, and that the poem celebrates the namesakes of 8th Century Mercian Kings.

The Danish cavalry, under the Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt ( not to be confused with the Duke of Württemberg who fought with Eugene ), had made slow work of crossing the Nebel near Oberglau ; harassed by Marsin's infantry near the village, the Danes were driven back across the stream.

Danes attacked Birka, accompanied with the deposed king Anund, which caused great distress in the town.

* Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity

He needed two soldiers to keep his hands up and when the Danes were about to win, ' Dannebrog ' fell from the sky and the King took it, showed it to the troops and their hearts were filled with courage and the Danes won the battle.

An indication that we are dealing with multiple flags, are the 1570 writings of Niels Hemmingsøn regarding a bloody battle between Danes and Swedes near the Swedish town of Uppsala in 1520.

Although Baltic Germans at large regarded the future of Estonians as being a fusion with themselves, the Estophile educated class admired the ancient culture of the Estonians and their era of freedom before the conquests by Danes and Germans in the 13th century.

Henry incorporated into his kingdom territories held by the Wends, who together with the Danes had attacked Germany, and also conquered Schleswig in 934.

The Jutes have also been identified with the Eotenas ( ēotenas ) involved in the Frisian conflict with the Danes as described in the Finnesburg episode in the poem Beowulf ( lines 1068 – 1159 ).

The Swedes were not happy with the Danes ' frequent wars on Schleswig, Holstein, Mecklenburg, and Pomerania, which were a disturbance to Swedish exports ( notably iron ) to the European continent.

Latvia, in whole or in parts, remained under foreign rule for the next eight centuries, finding itself at the cross-roads of all the regional superpowers of their day, including Denmark ( the Danes held on lands around the Gulf of Riga ), Sweden, and Russia, with southern ( Courland ) Latvia being at one time a vassal to Poland-Lithuania as well as Latgale falling directly under Poland-Lithuania rule.

Soon, Ceadrag too had turned against the Franks and allied with the Danes, who were to become the greatest menace of the Franks in a short time.

* the Polabian Wends, Sorbs, and Obotrites between the Elbe and Oder rivers ( by the Saxons, Danes, and Poles, beginning with the Wendish Crusade in 1147 )

Sture's widow, Dame Kristina Gyllenstierna, was still resisting in Stockholm with support from the peasants of central Sweden, and defeated the Danes at Balundsås on March 19.