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Old Frisian was a West Germanic language spoken between the late 13th century and the end of the 16th century by Frisians who comprised a loose confederacy along the North Sea coast. It served as an early regional standard language and demonstrates remarkable uniformity across time and space. The surviving corpus is almost entirely legal documents (example pictured). Old Frisian marked for four cases, three genders, and two tenses, though other grammatical functions could be achieved through periphrasis. Word order varied widely, though subject–object–verb was most common. Middle Low German began to displace Old Frisian as the language of trade during the 15th century and, by the turn of the 17th century, it had evolved into Middle Frisian, a vernacular language constrained to rural areas. It is the common ancestor of all Frisian languages except for the Insular North Frisian languages, with which they share an earlier ancestor called Pre–Old Frisian. (Full article...)
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Petropavlovsk was the lead ship of her class of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the last decade of the 19th century. Named for the successful Russian defense during the 1854 Siege of Petropavlovsk, the ship was sent to the Far East almost immediately after entering service in 1899. She participated in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion the next year and served as the flagship of the First Pacific Squadron. Petropavlovsk played a minor role in the Battle of Port Arthur, the Japanese surprise attack on the Russian squadron that opened the Russo-Japanese War, in February 1904. The ship sank on 13 April after striking one or more mines near Port Arthur, in northeast China. Casualties numbered 27 officers and 652 enlisted men, including Vice Admiral Stepan Makarov, the commander of the squadron, and the war artist Vasily Vereshchagin. (This article is part of a featured topic: Petropavlovsk-class battleships.)
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The Black Prince's chevauchée of 1356 was a large-scale mounted raid, or chevauchée, by an Anglo-Gascon force under the command of Edward the Black Prince as part of the Hundred Years' War. In 1355, the Black Prince marched 675 miles (1,086 km) from Gascony to Narbonne and back, causing enormous economic damage. The following year, he carried out a similar chevauchée, this time as part of a strategic operation in cooperation with other English armies. On 4 August, 6,000 Anglo-Gascon soldiers headed north from Bergerac towards Bourges, devastating a wide swathe of French territory and sacking many French towns on the way. English plans went awry, and by early September the Anglo-Gascons were facing the French king, John II, and a much larger French army on their own. The Black Prince withdrew; John, determined to fight, pursued and cut off the Prince's army. The French repeatedly attacked at the Battle of Poitiers (pictured) and were heavily defeated. John and one of his sons were captured. (Full article...)