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    Porta Ligny or Porta Ligne was the main city gate of the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily. It was constructed in 1673 and demolished in 1893. Porta...
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    of provincial capital. In the late 19th century, the walls (including Porta Ligny) were demolished and a bridge connecting the mainland to Ortygia island...
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  • Lucia alla Badia [it]. 1633 – Palazzo del Vermexio [it] built. 1673 – Porta Ligny (gate) built.[citation needed] 1693 – 1693 Sicily earthquake. 1710 –...
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    Christendom, in the year 1681.) Porta Ligny, a similar gate in Syracuse which was demolished "La Porta Spagnola – detta anche "Porta di Terra"". Monumenti Framacano...
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    grenadier guard regiment to be raised. Created on 9 May 1815, it saw action at Ligny and Waterloo. It was disbanded on 24 September 1815. Being the second in...
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    Garderegiment. He fought under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher at the Battles of Ligny and Waterloo. In 1817, he accompanied his sister Charlotte to Saint Petersburg...
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  • September 1346 – 3 August 1347 – English forces capture the city. Battle of Porta San Lorenzo (Rome) – November – The people of Rome defeat the baronial troops...
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    Hanoverian HH Rebozo – 2000, Bay, Stallion, Mexican Sport Horse HH Palouchin de Ligny – 2000, Chestnut, Gelding, (SF) HH Let's Fly – 1999, Bay, Gelding, Hanoverian...
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    walls provided with four gates: Porta Palermo (afterwards called Porta Saccari), at the end of the present via Rossotti; Porta Corleone, at the end of the...
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    private collection. Fortifications of Augusta (including Porta Spagnola), Sicily (1671-1690s) Ligny Tower, Trapani, Sicily (1671) Fortifications of Siracusa...
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    of their army in and around Ligny. The Prussians forced the Armée du Nord to fight all the day of the 15th to reach Ligny in a delaying action by the...
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    Tiburce, viscount Sébastiani de La Porta, was a French general and politician. He was born on 21 March 1786 in La Porta (Haute-Corse) and died on 16 September...
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  • Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-283-4. Libert, Alfons (2004). "The Battle of Ligny". The Napoleon Series. Retrieved 15 September 2013. Maude, Frederic Natusch...
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  • de Gimel de Tudeils (général de division) Jean-Baptiste Girard, duc de Ligny (général de division) Jean-Pierre Girard (général de brigade) Pierre Louis...
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    Trilport bridge. His subordinate Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta was unable to move because Sacken had broken the La Ferté-sous-Jouarre bridge...
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  • (1515–1533), Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1533–1553) Franziska of Luxembourg-Ligny, Regent? (1536–1554) Philibert I, Margrave (1554–1569) Albert V, Duke of...
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