According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

According to some sources, in the time of Edward III, by the law of the land had been substituted by due process of law, which in those times was a trial by twelve peers.

According to Edward G. Browne, the three most prominent mystical Persian poets Rumi, Sana ' i and Attar were all Sunni Muslims and their poetry abounds with praise for the first two caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar ibn al-Khattāb.

According to genealogist Edward MacLysaght the surname Lundy is from Norman de la Lounde, a name recorded in medieval documents in counties Tipperary and Kilkenny in Ireland.

According to the 2011 census, the province of Prince Edward Island has 140, 204 residents.

According to The British Army Website, the insignia was designed by Major Edward Seago in May, 1942.

According to Barbour, Comyn betrayed his agreement with Bruce to King Edward I, and when Bruce arranged a meeting for 10 February 1306 with Comyn in the Chapel of Greyfriars Monastery in Dumfries and accused him of treachery, they came to blows.

According to Edward Sapir:

According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

According to accounts left by the monk Gervase of Canterbury and eyewitness Edward Grim, they placed their weapons under a tree outside the cathedral and hid their mail armour under cloaks before entering to challenge Becket.

According to Scandinavian tradition, Edward fought alongside Edmund ; as Edward was at most thirteen years old at the time, the story is disputed.

According to the Norman chronicler, William of Jumièges, Robert I, Duke of Normandy attempted an invasion of England to place Edward on the throne in about 1034, but it was blown off course to Jersey.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Edward was sworn in as king alongside Harthacnut, but a diploma issued by Harthacnut in 1042 describes him as the king's brother.

According to his account, shortly before the Battle of Hastings, Harold sent William an envoy who admitted that Edward had promised the throne to William but argued that this was overridden by his deathbed promise to Harold.

According to the Encomium ( see above ), Edward the Confessor already served as co-ruler of England since 1041.

According to historian Jean Edward Smith, Grant and Garfield had a " guarded relationship ", since Grant put Thomas in charge of the Army of the Cumberland, rather than Garfield, after Rosecrans was dismissed.

According to Byzantine chronicles, on his abdication he achieved some degree of anecdotal fame by crying out the verse from Ecclesiastes, ' Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ' during Justinian's triumph in Contstantinople .< ref > Edward Gibbon,

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According to John of Worcester, Cnut sent them to the king of Sweden to be murdered, but the king instead sent them to Hungary, where Edmund died but Edward prospered.

According to legend, Isabella and Mortimer famously plotted to murder Edward in such a way as not to draw blame on themselves, sending a famous order ( in ) which, depending on where the comma was inserted, could mean either " Do not be afraid to kill Edward ; it is good " or " Do not kill Edward ; it is good to fear ".

According to legend ( recounted in Edward Hall's chronicle, written several years afterwards though from first-hand accounts ), he did not wait for an answer but dashed out Wenlock's brains with a battleaxe before seeking sanctuary in the Abbey.

According to the documentary For the Record, he stated that he was unhappy with his musical ideas not being taken seriously by lead singer Barlow and Nigel Martin-Smith, because his desire to explore hip hop and rap conflicted with the band's usual ballads.

According to Hunter Miller's notes, " the Barlow translation is at best a poor attempt at a paraphrase or summary of the sense of the Arabic " and " Article 11 ... does not exist at all.

" According to Barlow the allegations included the " fabrication " that he " was an ‘ intended ’ Congressional spy ", that he was an alcoholic, had not paid his taxes, and was an adulterer.

According to a ( possibly apochryphal ) story related by Alan Gibson, Barlow was working as a railway porter when Hornby first encountered him.

According to Thomas Edge, an early 17th century whaling captain who was often inaccurate, " William Hudson " discovered the island in 1608 and named it " Hudson's Touches " ( or " Tutches ").

According to a regimental history compiled in 1879 by a captain in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, in November 1755 Parliament voted the sum of £ 81, 000 for the purpose of raising a regiment of four battalions, each one thousand strong for service in British North America.

According to one chronicler, Richard's last act of chivalry proved fruitless ; in an orgy of medieval brutality, the infamous mercenary captain Mercadier had the crossbowman flayed alive and hanged as soon as Richard died.

According to Star Trek novels, Demora Sulu becomes captain after Harriman.

According to various sources, three men all sighted Antarctica within days or months of each other: Fabian von Bellingshausen, a captain in the Russian Imperial Navy ; Edward Bransfield, a captain in the British navy ; and Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer out of Stonington, Connecticut.

According to most accounts, the sailors were attracted to the idyllic life on the Pacific island of Tahiti and were further motivated by harsh treatment from their captain.

According to folklore the cellar was built by a sea captain who missed the sea.

According to the Sephardic tradition, a full 101 blasts are sounded, corresponding to the 100 cries of the mother of Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army who did not return home after being killed by the Yael ( Judges 5: 28 ).

According to Sebastian's 5th-century Acta Sanctorum, still attributed to Ambrose by the 17th-century hagiographer Jean Bolland, and the briefer account in Legenda Aurea, he was a man of Gallia Narbonensis who was taught in Milan and appointed as a captain of the Praetorian Guard under Diocletian and Maximian, who were unaware that he was a Christian.

According to W. J. Hardee's " Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics " ( 1855 ), the primary tactics for riflemen and light infantry in use immediately prior and during the Civil War, there would typically be, within each regiment, ten companies, each commanded by a captain, and deployed according to the ranks of captains.

According to these accounts, Godric, who began from humble beginnings as the son of Ailward and Edwenna, " both of slender rank and wealth, but abundant in righteousness and virtue ", was a pedlar, then a sailor and entrepreneur, and may have been the captain and owner of the ship that conveyed Baldwin I of Jerusalem to Jaffa in 1102.

According to captain, Close, at Lord's after Yorkshire had slowly reached 22 / 1, he Close promoted himself to number three in the batting order so that he could urge Boycott into action.

According to former Australian captain Allan Border, what you see with Ponting is what you get, and " he wears his heart on his sleeve ".

According to International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ) and National Hockey League ( NHL ) rules, the only player allowed to speak with referees about rule interpretations is the captain, or, if the captain is not on the ice, an alternate captain.

According to Wisden editor Norman Preston, influential figures within the cricket hierarchy blamed Hutton for the previous winter's events and they attempted to replace Hutton as captain.

According to some sources, the 17th-century Dutch captain Bernard Fokke is the model for the captain of the ghost ship.

According to the NTSB, Batouti seized the plane's controls and turned off the autopilot after the captain left the cockpit.

According to Worcesters log, in the castle they found " an Irishman, a captain, a Spanish lieutenant, a sergeant, one Scots rebel and 39 Spanish soldiers, 343 barrels of powder and 52 barrels of musquet shot ".

According to Wisden in his debut series, Holding " had shown himself to be Roberts ' natural opening partner and indeed was timed to be faster than Thomson, Lillee and Roberts ", and considered that when West Indies captain Clive Lloyd chose to give Julien the new ball rather than Holding it was a mistake that cost the West Indies the match.

According to captain Brian Lara " It wasn't designed as a drop.