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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 401 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PHILIPPSBURG , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, in the See also:

GRAND

grand duchy of See also:

Baden, situated on a sluggish See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm of the See also:

RHINE (Lat. Rhenus, Ger. Rhein, Fr. Rhin, Dutch Rhyn, or Rijn)

Rhine, 15 M. N. of See also:

KARLSRUHE, or CARLSRUHE

Karlsruhe, on the railway See also:

BRUCHSAL

Bruchsal-See also:

GERMERSHEIM

Germersheim. Pop. (1905) 2625. It has manufactures of See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco. and cigars, and some See also:

trade in See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle and hops. Philippsburg, formerly an important fortress, originally belonged to the ecclesiastical principality of See also:

SPIRES (Ger. Speyer or Speier)

Spires, and was named Udenheim. In 1338 it was surrounded with walls by See also:

bishop See also:

Gerhard. A later bishop of Spires, Philipp Christoph von Sotern, made the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place his See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence See also:

early in the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, strengthened the fortifications, and renamed it Philippsburg after himself. At the See also:

peace of See also:

Westphalia in 1648 the See also:

French remained in See also:

possession of the town, but in 1679 it was restored to Germany, and though again captured by the French in 1688 it was once more restored in 1697. In 1734 the dilapidated fortress See also:

fell an easy See also:

PREY (0. Fr. preie, mod. proie, Lat. praeda, booty, from prae and the root hed—seen in prehendere, prendere, to grasp)

prey to the French under See also:

MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

Marshal See also:

BERWICK, JAMES FITZJAMES

Berwick, who, however. lost his See also:

LIFE

life beneath its walls. It was restored to Germany in 1735, and was again besieged by the French in 1799. The town was assigned to Baden in 1803.

See Nopp, Geschichte der Stadt Philippsburg (Philippsburg, 1881).

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