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<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, butr by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the rrwest, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands sdsfaouth of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (8r3asdasd0sadasd-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soonwrwara the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of Wesrrt Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicleesrsdtrfdsfdsf reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to Basrfasdfasritish History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> wwararwadfsdfdsfsdf<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092925 2014-07-11T23:36:59Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore rhas had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval bsgfdsfgdsfase when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the artasdfhgdsfgdshshsyheryrtfddsf of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteedsas<br /> During both the [[Seven Ywwdasdfsdagasdfytgears' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by d<br /> the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little gfdsgsover 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattretendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> erwe<br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092924 2014-07-11T23:36:53Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, butr by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the rrwest, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands sdsfaouth of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (83asdasd0sadasd-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soonwrwara the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of Wesrrt Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicleesrsdtrfdsfdsf reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to Basrfasdfasritish History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> wwararwadfsdfdsfsdf<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092923 2014-07-11T23:36:46Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore rhas had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval bsgfdsfgdsfase when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the artasdfhgdsfgdshshsyheryrtfddsf of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteedsas<br /> During both the [[Seven Ywwdasdfsdagasdfytgears' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little gfdsgsover 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattretendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> erwe<br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092922 2014-07-11T23:36:40Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, butr by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the rrwest, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (83asdasd0sadasd-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soonwrwara the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of Wesrrt Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicleesrsdtrfdsfdsf reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to Basrfasdfasritish History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> wwararwadfsdfdsfsdf<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092921 2014-07-11T23:36:33Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore rhas had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval bsgfdsfgdsfase when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the artasdfdsf of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteedsas<br /> During both the [[Seven Ywwdasdfsdagasdfytgears' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little gfdsgsover 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> erwe<br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092920 2014-07-11T23:36:26Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, butr by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the rrwest, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830sadasd-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soonwrwara the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of Wesrrt Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicleesrsdtrfdsfdsf reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to Basrfasdfasritish History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> wwararwadfsdfdsfsdf<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092919 2014-07-11T23:36:19Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore rhas had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval bsgfdsfgdsfase when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the artasdfdsf of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteedsfdsfsdf of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> rrdfdsfdsf<br /> During both the [[Seven Ywwears' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little gfdsgsover 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> erwe<br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092918 2014-07-11T23:36:17Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, butr by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the rrwest, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soonwrwara the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of Wesrrt Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicleesrsdtrfdsfdsf reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to Basrfasdfasritish History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> wwararwadfsdfdsfsdf<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092917 2014-07-11T23:36:03Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore rhas had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the artasdfdsf of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteedsfdsfsdf of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> rrdfdsfdsf<br /> During both the [[Seven Ywwears' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little gfdsgsover 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> erwe<br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092916 2014-07-11T23:35:56Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, butr by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the rrwest, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soonwrwara the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of Wesrrt Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicledsfdsf reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to Basrfasdfasritish History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> wwararwadfsdfdsfsdf<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092915 2014-07-11T23:35:49Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore rhas had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the artasdfdsf of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth rrr Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> rrdfdsfdsf<br /> During both the [[Seven Ywwears' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little gfdsgsover 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> erwe<br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092914 2014-07-11T23:35:40Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, butr by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the rrwest, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soonwrwara the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of Wesrrt Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to Basrfasdfasritish History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> wwararwadfsdfdsfsdf<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092913 2014-07-11T23:35:33Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore rhas had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the artasdfdsf of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth rrr Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> rrdfdsfdsf<br /> During both the [[Seven Ywwears' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> erwe<br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092912 2014-07-11T23:35:27Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, butr by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the rrwest, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soonwrwara the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of Wesrrt Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> wwararwadfsdfdsfsdf<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092911 2014-07-11T23:35:16Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore rhas had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the artasdfdsf of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth rrr Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> rr<br /> During both the [[Seven Ywwears' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> erwe<br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092910 2014-07-11T23:35:15Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, butr by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the rrwest, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soonwrwara the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of Wesrrt Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> wwararwa<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092908 2014-07-11T23:34:55Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, butr by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the rrwest, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soonwrwara the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of Wesrrt Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092907 2014-07-11T23:34:48Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer fuck</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore rhas had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth rrr Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> rr<br /> During both the [[Seven Ywwears' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> erwe<br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092906 2014-07-11T23:34:36Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, butr by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the rrwest, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of Wesrrt Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092905 2014-07-11T23:34:28Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore rhas had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> rr<br /> During both the [[Seven Ywwears' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> erwe<br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092904 2014-07-11T23:34:23Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, butr by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of Wesrrt Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092903 2014-07-11T23:34:07Z

<p>SansaS: fuck</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore rhas had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> rr<br /> During both the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> erwe<br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092901 2014-07-11T23:33:59Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, butr by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092900 2014-07-11T23:33:54Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore rhas had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> rr<br /> During both the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092899 2014-07-11T23:33:46Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord)rr. In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092898 2014-07-11T23:33:39Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore has had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> rr<br /> During both the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092897 2014-07-11T23:33:34Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord). In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092896 2014-07-11T23:33:26Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore has had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> <br /> During both the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.rr<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092895 2014-07-11T23:33:19Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord). In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrrrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092894 2014-07-11T23:33:12Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore has had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Mrrarine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> <br /> During both the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092893 2014-07-11T23:33:08Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord). In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) hrre controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092892 2014-07-11T23:32:59Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore has had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Marine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> <br /> During both the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> rr<br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092891 2014-07-11T23:32:49Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord). In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) he controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thamesrr]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092890 2014-07-11T23:32:37Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near therr point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore has had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Marine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> <br /> During both the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> <br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092889 2014-07-11T23:32:33Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord). In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) he controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thames]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat rslaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092888 2014-07-11T23:32:22Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near the point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore has had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Marine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> <br /> During both the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[rrr]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> <br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092887 2014-07-11T23:32:17Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord). In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> rrr<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) he controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thames]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat slaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092886 2014-07-11T23:32:08Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near the point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore has had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Marine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> <br /> During both the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[blockade]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> <br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.<br /> rrrr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092885 2014-07-11T23:32:02Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord). In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> r<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) he controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thames]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Herrathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat slaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092884 2014-07-11T23:31:55Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near the point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore has had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Marine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> <br /> During both the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[blockade]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> <br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.<br /> rr<br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092883 2014-07-11T23:31:49Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord). In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> r<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) he controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thames]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Heathenrr men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat slaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092882 2014-07-11T23:31:40Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near the point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore has had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Marine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortificarrtions, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> <br /> During both the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[blockade]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> <br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.<br /> <br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092881 2014-07-11T23:31:34Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord). In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> r<br /> For a brief periodrr (830-831) he controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thames]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Heathen men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat slaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092880 2014-07-11T23:31:27Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near the point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore has had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Marine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortifications, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> <br /> During both the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[blockade]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> <br /> Brest was used by the [[Germarn]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.<br /> <br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092879 2014-07-11T23:31:21Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord). In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> r<br /> For a brief period (830-831) he controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thames]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Heathen men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;grrreat slaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Brest&diff=1092878 2014-07-11T23:31:14Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Brest''' is a [[French]] naval base and port on the Finisterre peninsula, at the far western end of [[Brittany]], France. It is near the point where the [[English Channel]] becomes the [[Bay of Biscay]] and therefore has had strategic importance since the seventeenth century. (Vessels sailing to and from the Mediterranean and other points south need to pass by Brest to enter the English Channel)<br /> <br /> Brest became a naval base when [[Cardinal Richelieu]] had wooden wharves built there in 1631. Not much later, “Minister of Marine” Colbert had them replaced with ones of stone, and that great exponent of the art of fortifications, Vauban, had the port fortified during the 1680s. During the eighteenth cenrtury Brest became the site for the French Naval College (École Navale,) the French equivalent of Dartmouth in Britain or Annapolis in the U.S.A. <br /> <br /> During both the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756-63)) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] which ended in 1815, Brest was [[blockade]]d for long periods by the [[Royal Navy]]. <br /> <br /> Brest was used by the [[German]] Navy as the base for its Atlantic squadron during [[World War II]] and was bombed so rmercilessly by the British that the three major warships there were not able to put to sea and had to be recalled to Germany in February 1942.<br /> <br /> The town and base were rebuilt after the war and it has resumed its role as base for the French Atlantic fleet, site of the Naval College and is now a centre for maritime studies. The current population is a little over 140,000.<br /> <br /> Reference: Hattendorf,John B, (editor in chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford University Press (2007) Volume 1<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:French Cities and Towns]]</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092877 2014-07-11T23:30:52Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord). In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> r<br /> For a brief period (830-831) he controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thames]], reverted to corrmpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Heathen men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;great slaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

SansaS https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Egbert&diff=1092876 2014-07-11T23:30:41Z

<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord). In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> r<br /> For a brief period (830-831) he controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thames]], reverted to cormpeting kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Heathen men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;great slaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

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<p>SansaS: User:Conservative is Ken Demyer</p> <hr /> <div>'''Egbert''' (died 839), (named as ''&quot;Ecgbryht&quot;'' in some editions of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]) [[king]] of [[Wessex]] 802-839, is considered to be the greatest of the West Saxon kings before [[Alfred the Great]].<br /> <br /> He came to the West Saxon throne in 802 after some years at the court of [[Charlemagne]]. Not a lot is known of his early reign, but by 827 he had expanded his own kingdom with victory over [[Celt]]ic [[Cornwall]] in the west, conquest and union with [[Jutes|Jutish]] [[Kent]] to the east and, in 825, a decisive defeat of the recently dominant [[Mercia]]ns to the north. Two years later he was in control of all Anglo-Saxon lands south of the [[River Humber]] and the Chronicle was describing him as [[bretwalda]](overlord). In 829 he marched into [[Northumbria]] and that kingdom submitted.<br /> r<br /> For a brief period (830-831) he controlled all of non-Celtic Britain. It cannot be called a united country however. Soon the Mercians would regain autonomy, and the land, at least north of the [[River Thames|Thames]], reverted to competing kingdoms. Despite this, Egbert had made Wessex the dominant force in the land, where it would remain well into the next century. It is from Egbert and his line of West Saxon kings that the present monarch, [[Elizabeth II]] is descended.<br /> <br /> In 835, the Chronicle reported that ''&quot;Heathen men ravaged Sheppey&quot;''. (North-east [[Kent]]) The next year there was ''&quot;great slaughter&quot;'' in Carhampton, West [[Somerset]] when Egbert lost to a [[Denmark|Danish]] seaborne force. He defeated a Danish-Cornish alliance in 838 but these conflicts marked the beginning in earnest of the great waves of Danish (Viking) attempts at invasion, begun as sporadic raids in 793, that would continue almost unceasingly until the [[Norman Conquest]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> :''“Oxford Companion to British History”'' p.338<br /> :''“Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”'' trans. Anne Savage 1982 pp.82/83<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Nb english monarchs}}</div>

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