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    Filippo Antonio Pasquale de' Paoli FRS (Italian pronunciation: [fiˈlippo anˈtɔːnjo paˈskwaːle de ˈpaːoli]; Corsican: Pasquale or Pasquali Paoli; French:...
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    annexed it. The most renowned was Petru Giovacchini, who considered Pasquale Paoli (the hero of Corsica) as the precursor of Corsican irredentism in favor...
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  • University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli (Corsican: Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli; French: Université de Corse Pascal Paoli) is a university, based...
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    Kingdom of France under Comte de Vaux, against Corsican forces under Pasquale Paoli of the Corsican Republic. The expedition was launched in May 1768, in...
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    It was proclaimed in July 1755 by Pasquale Paoli, who was seeking independence from the Republic of Genoa. Paoli created the Corsican Constitution, which...
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    last stepped forward from the ranks of Corsicans in exile in Italy, Pasquale Paoli, a general and patriot who struggled against Genoa and then France,...
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    Genoa began, first led by Luiggi Giafferi and Giacinto Paoli, and later by Paoli's son, Pasquale Paoli. After 26 years of struggle against the Republic of...
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    The flag of Corsica was adopted by General of the Nation Pasquale Paoli in 1755 and was based on a traditional flag used previously. It portrays a Moor's...
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  • Italian footballer Pasquale Paoli (1725–1807), a Corsican patriot and leader Pasquale del Pezzo (1859–1936), an Italian mathematician Pasquale Rizzoli (1871–1953)...
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  • Paoli may refer to: Antonio Paoli, a tenor singer from Puerto Rico Amalia Paoli, a soprano singer from Puerto Rico Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and...
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    over control of the town of Borgo on 8 October 1768. In October 1768, Pasquale Paoli tried to recapture U Borgu (Borgo), where a French force of 700 men...
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    near the current site of the Paoli Post Office. Evans named his inn after General Pasquale Paoli, a Corsican, after Paoli had received the 45th and final...
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    Buonaparte served briefly as a personal assistant to revolutionary leader Pasquale Paoli, fighting with the Corsican forces against the Genoese republic and...
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    had been a part of France for just two decades. The Corsican leader Pasquale Paoli, who had been exiled under the monarchy, became something of an idol...
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    department of France on the island of Corsica. It was founded in 1758 by Pasquale Paoli to create a port that would not be in the hands of the Genoese (such...
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    elite culture and people in Corsica at the time. It was drafted by Pasquale Paoli, and inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who, commissioned by the Corsicans...
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    population was 3,677 at the 2010 census. Paoli was laid out and platted in 1816. It was named for Pasquale Paoli Ash, the son of North Carolina governor...
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    Paoli is a Statutory Town in Phillips County, Colorado, United States. The population was 51 according to the 2020 census. A post office called Paoli...
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  • M. Bartoli, Pasquale Paoli, père de la patrie corse, Albatros, 1974, p. 29. "There is one area where the pioneering nature of Paoli's institutions is...
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    subsequent befriending of the Corsican independence movement leader, General Pasquale Paoli. The British involvement in the issues of Corsica included the Corsican...
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    in his island; Paoli wanted the Italian language to be the official language of the newly founded Corsican Republic. Pasquale Paoli's appeal in 1768 against...
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  • M. Bartoli, Pasquale Paoli, père de la patrie corse, Albatros, 1974, p. 29. "There is one area where the pioneering nature of Paoli's institutions is...
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    strong enough to keep Corsica until 1755, the year Pasquale Paoli proclaimed the Corsican Republic. Paoli took most of the island for the republic, but he...
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    annexation by France the following year. The Corsican commander-in-chief, Pasquale Paoli, was trying to raise troops in the vicinity but was not present in person...
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    increasingly reactionary nationalist leader, Pasquale Paoli, and was forced to flee to the French mainland. Paoli's followers looted and burned much of the...
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    the capital of the Corsican independent state during the period of Pasquale Paoli. During World War I, German prisoners of war were kept in the Citadel...
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    alongside Pasquale Paoli during the Corsican war of independence against France. After the Corsican defeat at the Battle of Ponte Novu in 1769 and Paoli's exile...
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    was fought over by the Genoese Republic and the Kingdom of France. Pasquale Paoli led a rebellion by Corsicans against the various foreign powers contesting...
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  • Pau and the Adour Clermont-Ferrand Clermont Auvergne Corsica Corsica Pasquale Paoli Créteil Gustave Eiffel Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis Paris-East Créteil...
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    1789 had stirred their ambitions for independence, and their leader Pasquale Paoli appealed to Hood for support. Hood was initially distracted by the Siege...
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