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DUPPEL , a See also:

village of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein, opposite the See also:town of See also:Sonderburg (on the See also:island of See also:Alsen). (Pop. 600.) The position of Duppel, forming as it does a See also:bridge-See also:head for the defenders of the island of Alsen, played a conspicuous See also:part in the See also:wars between See also:Denmark and the Germans. On the 28th of May 1848 the See also:German federal troops were there defeated by the Danes under See also:General Hedemann, and a second See also:battle was fought on the 6th of See also:June 1848. On the r3th of See also:April 1849 an indecisive battle was fought between the federal troops under von Prittwitz and the Danes under von Billow. The most important event in the military See also:history of Duppel was, however, the See also:siege by the Prussians of the Danish position in 1864. The flanks of the defenders' See also:line rested upon the Alsen Sund and the See also:sea, and it was strengthened by ten redoubts. A second line of trenches with lunettes at intervals was constructed behind the front attacked, and a small reduit opposite Sonderburg to See also:cover the See also:bridges between Alsen and themainland. The Prussian siege See also:corps was commanded by See also:Prince See also:Frederick See also:Charles (headquarters, Duppel village), and after three See also:weeks' skirmishing a See also:regular siege was begun, the batteries being opened on the 15th of See also:March. The first parallel was completed fifteen days later, the front of attack being redoubts II. to VI., forming the centre of the Danish entrenchments on the road Duppel-Sonderburg. The siege was pushed rapidly from the first parallel and the See also:assault delivered on the 18th of April, against the redoubts I. to VI., each See also:redoubt being attacked by a See also:separate See also:column. The whole line was carried after a brief but severe conflict, and the Prussians had penetrated to and captured the reduit opposite Sonderburg by 2 P.M.

The loss of the Danes, See also:

half of whose forces were not engaged, included 1800 killed and wounded and 3400 prisoners. This operation was followed by the daring passage of the Alsen Sund, effected by the Prussians in boats almost under the guns of the Danish warships, and resulting in the See also:capture of the whole island of Alsen (June 29th, 1864). After being still further strengthened and linked with similar defences at Sonderburg, the Duppel entrenchments were abandoned in 1881 in favour of landward fortifications around See also:Kiel. See R. See also:Neumann, Uber den Angriff der Diippeler Schanzen in der Zeit vom 15. Marz bis 18. April 1864 (See also:Berlin, 1865) ; and Der deutschdanische Krieg 1864, published by the Prussian General See also:Staff (Berlin, 1887). DU PRAT, See also:ANTOINE (1463-1535), See also:chancellor of See also:France and See also:cardinal, was See also:born at See also:Issoire on the 17th of See also:January 1463. He began See also:life as a lawyer, and See also:rose rapidly in the legal See also:hierarchy owing to the See also:influence of his See also:cousin Antoine Bohier, cardinal See also:archbishop of See also:Bourges. The first See also:office which he held was that of See also:lieutenant-general in the bailliage of Montferrand; in 1507 he became first See also:president of the See also:parlement of See also:Paris. See also:Louise of See also:Savoy had employed him as her adviser in her affairs, and had made him See also:tutor to her son. When See also:Francis I. ascended the See also:throne he made Du Prat chancellor of France, in which capacity he played an important part in the See also:government.

It was he who negotiated with See also:

Leo X. concerning the abolition of the Pragmatic See also:Sanction and the See also:establishment of a See also:concordat. After the See also:meeting of the See also:Field of the See also:Cloth of See also:Gold (1520) he was engaged in unsuccessful negotiations with See also:Wolsey. During the regency of Louise of Savoy he, together with Florimond Robertet, was at the head of affairs. He took an active part in the suit brought by Louise of Savoy against the See also:Constable de See also:Bourbon, and in 1532 completed the See also:work of uniting See also:Brittany to France. After the See also:death of his wife in 1507 Du Prat had taken orders; he received the bishoprics of See also:Valence, See also:Die, See also:Meaux and See also:Albi, and the archbishopric of See also:Sens (1525); in 1527 he became cardinal, and in 1530 papal See also:legate. He was a determined adversary of the See also:Reformation. He died on the 9th of See also:July 1535. See the See also:marquis Du Prat, See also:Vie d'Antoine Du Prat (Paris, 1857).

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