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    Orient was a powerful Océan-class 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, famous for her role as flagship of the French fleet at the Battle of the...
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  • ships of the French Navy have borne the name Orient. Among them: The 80-gun ship of the line Orient (1756) The 118-gun ship of the line Orient (1791)...
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  • not launched until 1853 Ships of the French Navy named Dauphin Royal Aft of Dauphin Royal (1668) Orient, ex-Dauphin Royal (1791), exploding during the...
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    until surpassed in sheer size by the new type French 120-gun ships such as Océan (1790) and Orient (1791). In 1795, her forecastle was joined to her quarterdeck...
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    miniature ship: HMS Victory. Upon the ship is the Flag Staff Truck (part of the mast) of the French ship Orient (1791), flagship of the French fleet, sunk...
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  • part of the municipality of Le Chenit in Vaud, Switzerland French ship L'Orient (1791), a French warship, sunk at the Battle of the Nile Raid on Lorient...
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    is a list of French ships of the line of the period 1621–1870 (plus some from the period before 1621). Battlefleet units in the French Navy (Marine Royale...
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  • Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Sans-Culotte in honour of the Sans-culottes: Orient, an Océan-class 118-gun ship of the line of the...
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    same. The French began to abandon ship as the fire spread, and a number were brought aboard the British ships, Swiftsure taking on Orient′s first lieutenant...
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    The Océan-class ships of the line were a series of 118-gun three-decker ships of the line of the French Navy, designed by engineer Jacques-Noël Sané....
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    HMS Bellerophon (1786) (category 1786 ships)
    Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786. Bellerophon served during the French Revolutionary...
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    Liberté, égalité, fraternité (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    fraternité (French pronunciation: [libɛʁte eɡalite fʁatɛʁnite]), French for 'liberty, equality, fraternity', is the national motto of France and the Republic...
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    Armand Louis de Gontaut (category French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    French Revolutionary Wars. In 1773, he was Grand second warden of Grand Orient de France. Born in Paris to Charles Antoine Armand de Gontaut-Biron, duke de...
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  • Antoine Le Picard de Phélippeaux (category French counter-revolutionaries)
    emigrated to Great Britain in 1791 during the French Revolution. He served in the Army of Condé and fought against the French Republic. Fighting against...
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    Napoleon moved to mainland France in 1779 and was commissioned as an officer in the French Royal Army in 1785. He supported the French Revolution in 1789, and...
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    In his 1791 writing Panopticon, or The Inspection House, Bentham reasoned that those working fixed hours needed to be overseen. Also, in 1791, Jean Philippe...
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    Undoing of French Indochina (2010). Kang, Mathilde (2018). "II The affirmation of the French presence in Asia". Francophonie and the Orient: French-Asian Transcultural...
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    Cutty Sark (redirect from Cutty Sark (ship))
    : 155–157  The ship was named after Cutty-sark, the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns's 1791 poem Tam o' Shanter. The ship's figurehead, the...
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    the Reciprocal Guarantee of Two Nations (1791). In the preamble of the Reciprocal Guarantee of Two Nations (1791) the dualistic nature of the state was...
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    series of three frigates built to a 1791 design by John Henslow, which served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The...
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    side of the French line, capturing all five ships of the vanguard and engaging his 120-gun flagship Orient in the centre. At 21:00, Orient caught fire...
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    Company's Service" or "Honourable Company's Ship", such as HCS Vestal (1809) and HCS Intrepid (1780). During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the...
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    The French Third Republic (French: Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4...
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    Tahitian [taˈhiti]; French pronunciation: [ta.iˈti]) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It is located...
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    Malta 1    The French invasion of Egypt and Syria was a military campaign in and occupation of Ottoman territories in Egypt and Syria by French forces under...
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    Charles René Magon de Médine (category French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    battle of Trafalgar whilst commanding the ship-of-the-line Algésiras - his conduct in the battle is seen by French historians as one of the few redeeming...
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    The military of New France consisted of a mix of regular forces from the French Royal Army (Carignan-Salières Regiment) and French Navy (Troupes de la...
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  • Frode Haltli Looking on Darkness ECM New Series ECM 1795 2002 Arvo Pärt Orient & Occident ECM New Series ECM 1796 2002 John Surman / Jack DeJohnette Invisible...
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    Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (category French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    Pailleterie (French: [tɔmɑ alɛksɑ̃dʁ dymɑ davi də la pajət(ə)ʁi]; known as Thomas-Alexandre Dumas; 25 March 1762 – 26 February 1806) was a French general,...
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    Alsace (redirect from Alsace, France)
    mortgages in Alsace. Official tolerance grew during the French Revolution, with full emancipation in 1791. However, local antisemitism also increased and Napoleon...
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