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    Claude, comte de Forbin-Gardanne (6 August 1656 – 4 March 1733) was a French Navy officer, nobleman and diplomat. From 1685 to 1688, he led a diplomatic...
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  • (1625–1713), called the cardinal de Janson, bishop Claude de Forbin (1656-1733), French naval commander Count de Forbin, officer of the French Navy who...
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    Duguay-Trouin and Claude de Forbin and an English convoy protected by a squadron under Commodore Richard Edwards. Duguay-Trouin and Forbin were two of the...
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    of Great Britain. Using a fleet of fast privateers, its commander Claude de Forbin reached Scotland. However, with the Royal Navy in close pursuit, the...
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    aircraft. Forbin is the sixth vessel of the French Navy named after the 17th century admiral Claude Forbin-Gardanne. Construction of Forbin began in Lorient...
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  • later that year retires to Acadie (Southeast Canada). Jean Bart and Claude de Forbin are captured by the Royal Navy and taken to Plymouth. Three days later...
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    shown in French maps during the reign of Narai (1656–88), drew by Claude de Forbin and de Lamare.: 2–3  Wat Makok The temple was renamed Wat Chaeng by Taksin...
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  • Trincomalee. Forbin was born to the family of Claude de Forbin. He was also a parent to Suffren, as Suffren's great-grand-mother was from the Forbin family...
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    beginning of the war, he was captured by an English warship, together with Claude de Forbin, and they were taken as prisoners-of-war to Plymouth. However, three...
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    – Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar, Swedish officer (b. 1683) March 4 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656) April 14 – Ippolito Desideri, Italian...
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  • wearing lomphok and Khrui, 1686 Claude de Forbin wearing Ayutthayan mandarin dress The French ambassador Chevalier de Chaumont presents a letter from...
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    François-Timoléon de Choisy Father Guy Tachard, French Jesuit writer and Siamese Ambassador to France (1688) Louis Laneau, Apostolic Vicar of Siam Claude de Forbin, French...
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    the War of the Spanish Succession in which a French squadron under Claude de Forbin intercepted a large British convoy escorted by three ships of the line...
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    include the French accounts of the Chevalier de Chaumont, the Abbé de Choisy, Fr. Tachard, Claude de Forbin, de la Loubere and the Persian account of Muhammad...
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    being accompanied by Jesuit Guy Tachard and French naval commander Claude de Forbin, who would remain to serve King Narai as Governor of Bangkok, as well...
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    Ceremony and royal funeral processions. Kosa Pan wearing lomphok, 1686 Claude de Forbin wearing Ayutthayan mandarin dress with lomphok Ayutthayan diplomats...
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    de Billy named governor of the island, and received the territory of Songkla in the south. When Chaumont returned to France, Count Claude de Forbin,...
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    cannon. She was also fitted with a helipad to carry a Lynx WG13 helicopter. Forbin had her forward 57 mm turret removed, and her aft 127 mm turret was replaced...
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    HMS Elizabeth and HMS Coventry. On 21 October 1707, together with Claude de Forbin, he defeated a Royal Navy squadron commanded by Richard Edwards at...
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    entertain at his house the French ambassador and musketeer, Count Claude de Forbin, drinking to the health of the royal families of England and France...
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    educator (b. 1552) 1710 – Louis III, duke of Bourbon (b. 1668) 1733 – Claude de Forbin, French admiral and politician (b. 1656) 1744 – John Anstis, English...
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    Austrian architect (d. 1723) August 6 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733) August 12 – Claude de Visdelou, French missionary (d. 1737) August...
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    officer, Claude de Forbin was imprisoned for three weeks in 1691 for shooting at a Mr. Fervaquet, who owed Forbin 500 books and who insulted Forbin in the...
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    the command of Chevalier Claude de Forbin. In July 1686, when the fort was attacked by a band of pirates from Makassar, de Beauregard's belly was slit...
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    Jean de Fontaney, on a first French embassy to Siam led by Chevalier de Chaumont and François-Timoléon de Choisy, and accompanied by Claude de Forbin. The...
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    Indians from the Middle East and the Malay Peninsula. The records of Claude de Forbin, a French naval admiral who lived in Ayutthaya at the time, states...
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    fleet actions with great success under such captains as Jean Bart, Claude de Forbin and René Duguay-Trouin. Until what the British called the Annus Mirabilis...
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    the Venus to the king for the Louvre and the comte de Forbin, the curator of the Louvre, reimbursed de Rivière for the cost of the sculpture. The name has...
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    September Hardy's ships sighted the French squadron of Rear-Admiral Claude de Forbin as it made a circuitous return from capturing British and Dutch merchant...
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    1651 – François Fénelon, French archbishop and poet (d. 1715) 1656 – Claude de Forbin, French general (d. 1733) 1666 – Maria Sophia of Neuburg (d. 1699)...
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