Battle on the Elster (German: Schlacht bei Hohenmölsen) was the third and last battle between the Salian king Henry IV of Germany and anti-king Rudolf...

up Elster in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Elster may refer to: Black Elster (Schwarze Elster), a river in Germany White Elster (Weiße Elster), a...

in the Battle on the Elster. Rudolf was the son of the Swabian count (Graf) Kuno of Rheinfelden. He was first mentioned in a 1048 deed issued by the Salian...

("the Holy") as ruler of Denmark. October 14 – Battle on the Elster: Rudolf of Rheinfelden defeats the imperial forces led by Henry IV at the Elster River...

off in chronicling this new era for the German kingdom (Rudolf was mortally wounded in the Battle on the Elster against Henry's forces in 1080). Lampert...

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his supply base for the battle. The bridges on the Pleisse and White Elster rivers were defended by infantry and a few guns. The main battery stood in...

The surrender of Major General Botho Elster and more than 19,000 German soldiers to the United States Army during World War II took place on 17 September...

Forchheim and had the Swabian duke Rudolf of Rheinfelden elected anti-king in 1077. Henry's and Rudolf's forces met in the 1080 Battle on the Elster, whereby Rudolf...

The Battle of the River Plate was fought in the South Atlantic on 13 December 1939 as the first naval battle of the Second World War.[citation needed][clarification...

routed his allies at the Battle of Sorbara on 2 July. Pope Gregory VII repeated Henry's excommunication in late 1084, but many of the Pope's former supporters...

The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to a rumored attack on the continental...

("the Holy") as ruler of Denmark. October 14 – Battle on the Elster: Rudolf of Rheinfelden defeats the imperial forces led by Henry IV at the Elster River...

[ˈfalkŋ̍ˌbɛʁk] ) is a town in the Elbe-Elster district, in southwestern Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated near the river Schwarze Elster, 16 km east of Torgau...

and the Swedish Army under Lennart Torstensson. It was the last battle of the war featuring more than 20.000 soldiers on each side and one of the rare...

the day after Henry IV and his opponent Rudolf of Rheinfelden had clashed in Saxony near Hohenmölsen at the Battle on the Elster. Bernold states the bishops'...

met at the White Elster River during the Battle of Elster in the plain of Leipzig and Henry's forces again suffered a military defeat; however, the strategic...

The Battle of the Caribbean refers to a naval campaign waged during World War II that was part of the Battle of the Atlantic, from 1941 to 1945. German...

The Battle of Bowmanville was a 1942 revolt in the Bowmanville prisoner of war camp (Camp 30) in Ontario, Canada. The prisoners, most of whom were higher-ranking...

Operation Elster ("Magpie" in English) was a German espionage mission intended to gather intelligence on U.S. military and technology facilities during...

The Battle on the Elster, the third and last battle between the Salian king Henry IV of Germany and anti-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden, was fought on October...

the Road to Canossa, to salvage his kingship. Battle on the Elster Concordat of Worms I. S. Robinson, The Papacy 1073-1198 (1990) p. 402. Robinson, p....

Henning Elster surrendered with 18,850 men and 754 officers at the Loire bridge of Beaugency. The movement into Luxembourg was completed on 25 September...

only to discover that the Japanese had withdrawn from the island on 29 July. The campaign is known as the "Forgotten Battle" because it has been overshadowed...

The battle of the Mons pocket was an engagement fought between Allied and German forces during late August and early September 1944. It formed part of...

excommunicated Henry and all his supporters. While Rudolf was killed in the Battle on the Elster, Benno and several bishops met in a synod at Brixen, where Gregory...

The Battle of the St. Lawrence involved marine and anti-submarine actions throughout the lower St. Lawrence River and the entire Gulf of Saint Lawrence...

toward Berlin to protect against the activities of Bülow. On 27 May, after the two forces clashed along the Black Elster River at Hoyerswerda, Bülow's corps...

to: Mühlberg, Brandenburg, a town in the Elbe-Elster district, Brandenburg Mühlberg, Thuringia, a village in the Gotha district, Thuringia Mühlberg (Neustadt...

town centre in the Lower Lusatian Heath Nature Park on the banks of the Black Elster River. According to tradition, Harigsburg Castle, in the vicinity of...