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    Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve (31 December 1763 – 22 April 1806) was a French Navy officer who served during the French Revolutionary...
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  • canoeist Noble Villeneuve (born 1938–2018), Canadian politician Pierre Devilleneuve, French canoeist Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (né Pierre-Charles-Silvestre...
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    passage. The allied fleet, under the command of the French admiral, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, sailed from the port of Cádiz in the south of Spain on 18 October...
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  • From 1805-1807, he temporarily served in the French Navy under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve. He fought in numerous land engagements during his career, including...
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    passage. The allied fleet, under the command of the French admiral, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, sailed from the port of Cádiz in the south of Spain on 18 October...
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    ensure a safe passage for the Grande Armée. Commanded by Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, the allied navy went down to Cape Trafalgar, where they encountered...
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    who died on board on 18 August 1804, and later of Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve as the flagship of the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar...
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    January 1805, the French fleet, under the command of Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, escaped Toulon and eluded the blockading British. Nelson set...
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    British fleet attacked the French rear, forcing Contre-amiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve to pull away for the mouth of the bay. Four French ships were...
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    Western Approaches. The Toulon and Brest fleets (under Admirals Pierre-Charles Villeneuve and Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume respectively) could then rendezvous...
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    under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve had escaped from Toulon. While Nelson made for Sicily to see if the French were heading for Egypt, Villeneuve was entering...
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    (1722 – 11 March 1806), the daughter of Pierre Loubières and his wife Jeanne Viellescazes. Murat's father, Pierre Murat-Jordy, was the son of Guillaume...
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  • 2016-2017 Drunk History: UK Royal Society Lecturer / Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve / Edward Wilson Comedy Central 3 episodes 2016-2018 Upstart Crow...
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    place so they could keep up with him. Hortense bore Louis's sons Napoléon Charles Bonaparte and Napoléon Louis Bonaparte in Paris, while Louis was in Holland...
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  • Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve (French: [ʒil vil.nœv]; 18 January 1950 – 8 May 1982) was a Canadian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1977...
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    Gottfried August Bürger, German poet and academic (d. 1794) 1763 – Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806) 1776 – Johann Spurzheim, German-American...
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    Alexander I: Tsar of War and Peace (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974) Rey, Marie-Pierre. Alexander I.: the Tsar who defeated Napoleon (2012) Troyat, Henri. Alexander...
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    – John Molson, Canadian entrepreneur (d. 1836) December 31 – Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806) Date unknown – Huang Pilie, Chinese...
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    (1747–1792) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain (1745–1792), daughter of Charles III of Spain. Francis was born in Florence, the capital of Tuscany, where...
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    passed to his brother, Charles X. Louis XVIII was the last king or emperor of France to die a reigning monarch: his successor, Charles X (r.  1824–1830) abdicated;...
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    illness before he had a chance to use it. Under his successor Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, the fleet he had refurbished was annihilated at the Battle of...
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    and park by Hanoverian Jäger and the 1/2nd Nassau. The initial attack by Pierre François Bauduin's brigade emptied the wood and park, but was driven back...
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    including the Bucentaure's captain, Jean-Jacques Magendie. Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve survived, and although he was not captured for three hours, the...
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    with fine artillery crewed by experienced professional soldiers. Archduke Charles, brother of the Austrian Emperor, had started to reform the Austrian army...
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    the Italian throne and then, after Joseph's refusal, his nephew Napoléon Charles, the son of Louis Bonaparte and Eugène's sister, Hortense. However, both...
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    Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Laurentius of Austria, Duke of Teschen (German: Erzherzog Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz von Österreich, Herzog von...
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    Villeneuve OQ (French: [ʒɑk vilnœv]; born 9 April 1971) is a Canadian former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1996 to 2006. Villeneuve...
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    there, plunged in gloomy meditation on having seen his friend, General Pierre Charles Pouzet, decapitated mid-conversation by a cannonball, a second cannonball...
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    the United States at Mortefontaine, Oise, alongside Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu, and Pierre Louis Roederer. In 1795 Bonaparte was a member of the...
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    of Italy), and by evening they had again expelled the Russians. Armand Charles Guilleminot was the first who entered the city. During the course of the...
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