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  • Foot Soldier of Napoleon Settled in Millburn Area
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 19, 2004
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    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...coronation as Emperor of France was marked Dec. 2. Napoleon...more than a decade (1800-1815), his legacy is still...fought in Napoleons army in Europe. Specht and his wife purchased...Italy, Poland, Germany and France. These men, mostly conscripts...inherited from the French Revolution of 1789-1799, were deeply rooted in...of in pre-Revolutionary France and Europe where armies...Illinois: An Illustrated History" is the collections coordinator...
     
  • The Battle That Made Our Nation, Incontestably, the Strongest on Earth; BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR BICENTENARY - A SIX-PAGE COMMEMORATIVE SPECIAL,As the 200th Anniversary of Nelson's Victory at Trafalgar Draws near, a Leading Historian Explains How That One Day Changed Britain's Future.Review
    Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 26, 2005
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    ...most famous naval battle in history. On October 21, 1805...close blockade, adopted in 1799, had sharply limited their...naval warfare, although France throughout the 18th century...private contractors. In France these gun foundries tended...no such market existed in France. Naval administration was...into which they fell in 1789, when financial crisis led to the French Revolution. In 18th Century Britain...destroyed the resources of Europe, the economy and population...Netherlands and Denmark. By 1815, when her main commercial...
     
  • Here's to George, Etc
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 11, 1999
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    ...marking trees to be cut on a brutally cold, Dec. 13, 1799, George Washington, 67, former commanding general of...beloved Mount Vernon to serve as Americas first president in 1789. He took the oath of office in New York City on April...men. But without Gen. George Washington, the American Revolution might not have succeeded; without President Washington...fledging Republic could easily have imploded, as happened in France. The nation owes this man an incalculable debt. He was...during the past 40 years. So whats going on? "Look at the history of Mars," Howard McCurdy of American University told...
     
  • HEAVEN AND HELL ON EARTH; John Martin's Visions of the End of the World Provide a Triumphant Climax for a Thoroughly Cinematic Show EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 22, 2011
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    ...and was still engulfing Europe, its character theatrical...Martin was born in July 1789, the thirteenth child of...a little Greek. As, in 1815, he was appointed Drawing...the most modern city in Europe) instructing the gentry...universal appeal) and spread to France and America, where they...the day, the Counter-Revolution against the Enlightenment...borne diseases belong to the history of this metropolis -- and...now -- rather than the history of art, but they should...
     


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  • French Revolution
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    ...Lefebvre ; the diplomatic history by Albert Sorel ; the socialist...P. Gaxotte, The French Revolution (1928), a royalist account...N. Hampson, A Social History of the French Revolution...Revolution, see P. Farmer, France Reviews Its Revolutionary...1963); D. Sutherland, France, 1789 1815: Revolution and Counterrevolution...
     
  • France
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    ...France supported the American Revolution (1775 83). Financially...began the upheaval that shook Europe from 1789 to 1815 (see French Revolution...into the National Assembly (1789); a constitutional monarchy...1791); war with much of Europe began, accompanied by violence...growth of radical factions in France (1792); the king and queen...
     
  • Belgrade
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    ...land and river routes between Central Europe and the Balkans, Belgrade has been the target of numerous conquerors throughout history. The city grew around fortresses built...Belgrade their chief strategic fortress in Europe. Although the Austrians stormed it in 1688, 1717, and 1789, they were able to hold onto it only...1813. The Turks largely left Serbia in 1815 but kept a garrison in the Belgrade fortress...
     
  • Washington, George
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    ...President of the United States (1789 97), commander in chief...Continental army in the American Revolution , called the Father of His...Forge . Seldom in military history has any general faced such...took office (Apr. 30, 1789) in New York City. He was...1778 military alliance with France, and he took measures against...Vernon, but when war with France seemed imminent (1798...averted. He died on Dec. 14, 1799, and was buried on his estate...
     
  • Paris , City, France
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    ...transportation centers of western Europe. The Paris metro (subway...the Museum of the Art and History of Judaism, the Place...departments of the Ile-de-France administrative region...the state. Immigrants to France now constitute nearly 20...Paris, became king of France. The Capetians firmly...stormed the Bastille (July, 1789) and hauled the royal...turbulent period of the Revolution the city played a central...by enemy armies (1814, 1815). In the first half of...1861, 1,696,000. The revolutions of July, 1830, and Feb...
     

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