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    The Vine and Olive Colony was an effort by a group of French Bonapartists who, fearing for their lives after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Bourbon...
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    to the United States and spent the next few years farming in the Vine and Olive Colony, beginning in 1817. His frequent appeals to Louis XVIII eventually...
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    20 French Bonapartist veterans of the Napoleonic Wars from the Vine and Olive Colony. The party was led by General Charles Lallemand. Land was offered...
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    Demopolis, Alabama (category Vine and Olive Colony)
    River, at the present site of Demopolis, founding the Vine and Olive Colony. Among the wealthiest and most prominent of the group was Count Lefebvre Desnouettes...
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    Arcola, Alabama (category Vine and Olive Colony)
    Bonapartists as part of their Vine and Olive Colony, after they were forced to abandon their first town at Demopolis and many found Aigleville unsuitable...
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    develop a Vine and Olive Colony. Other ethnic French who settled here were refugees from the colony of Saint-Domingue, where enslaved Africans and "free people...
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    Aigleville, Alabama (category Vine and Olive Colony)
    late 1818 by former French Bonapartists and refugees from Saint-Domingue, as a part of their Vine and Olive Colony. It was named in honor of the French Imperial...
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    were early settlers and planters in Prairieville and owned large land tracts in the original French grants of the Vine and Olive Colony. In 1845, William...
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    site where French Bonapartist refugees landed in 1817 and established their Vine and Olive Colony. White Bluff is the site for the main event of the annual...
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    refugees with their Vine and Olive Colony, was named in honour of this battle. Since then, numerous settlements were named Marengo in Canada and the United States...
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    President James Madison, and the United States Congress gave him a grant of 500 acres (2.0 km2) in the Vine and Olive Colony in Alabama. He then later...
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    on land first settled by Frederic Ravesies, in what was once the Vine and Olive Colony town of Arcola, founded by French immigrants in the early 19th century...
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    restored government and fled to the United States, where he was condemned to death in absentia. He settled in the Vine and Olive Colony in Alabama, later...
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    capital city of Cahaba, and then meet with members of the French Vine and Olive Colony near Demopolis, then makes an overnight visit to Claiborne, where...
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    Colonel Jean-Jerome Cluis, a Napoleonic refugee and member of the ill-fated Vine and Olive Colony. Dominique Louis Dolive, an early French settler....
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    Linden, Alabama (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    the Vine and Olive Colony. The name commemorated the battle in 1800 at Hohenlinden, Bavaria, where the French defeated the armies of both Austria and Bavaria...
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    Demopolis Town Square (category United Daughters of the Confederacy monuments and memorials)
    with the Vine and Olive Colony, and the park was established in 1819. The park covers one city block, bounded by Main, Capitol, Walnut, and Washington...
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    from the failed Vine and Olive Colony in Marengo County, Alabama. With Alabama statehood in 1819, during the 1820s, the city of Mobile and private developers...
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    that gained a grant of four townships in what is now Alabama for a Vine and Olive Colony. There were rumors that Lallemands would try to rescue Napoleon...
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  • Story of the Vine and Olive Colony in Alabama. W. B. Drake, 1967. p. 114 (see also). Retrieved from Google Books on August 27, 2012. "Simon and Melanie Chaudron...
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  • Fort Montgomery (Alabama) (category Buildings and structures in Baldwin County, Alabama)
    Colonel William A. Trimble. In May 1817, an advance party of the Vine and Olive Colony stopped at Fort Stoddert, then arrived at Fort Montgomery to meet...
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    Demopolis Historic Business District (category Buildings and structures in Demopolis, Alabama)
    the Vine and Olive Colony. The historic district is a ten block area, roughly bounded by Capitol Street, Franklin Street, Desnouettes Street, and Cedar...
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    Indies and the mainland of Spanish America. Chassériau was one of the French exiles at the origin of the city of Aigleville and the Vine and Olive Colony. In...
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  • the United States, where he joined the Vine and Olive Colony of Bonapartists. In January 1817, when the colony moved to Marengo County, Alabama, on a...
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    except when lingering around their nesting colony. The song of the olive oropendola is a liquid, gurgling and "expanding" stek-ek-ek-ek-eh-eh-eh-o'o 'GLOOP...
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    tour of France and Switzerland to study "the whole practice of the culture of the vine and the olive, and the making of the wine and the oil." By May...
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    after his arrival in the colony. This estate covered most of the area south from Terry Road to Victoria Road and Tramway Street, and east from Brush Road...
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    grazed in pasturelands along the river, and the soil supported the cultivation of wheat, vegetables, grape vines, and fruit trees. This mission survived only...
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    battleground in the Peloponnesian War. Their country was rich in figs, vines and olive trees; the silver mines in the mountain range of Dysorum brought in...
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  • commands and sacrificed itself to destroy the colony. At the end of the war, the Creature Commandos and J.A.K.E. 2 (and both its robot dog C.A.P. and C.A.P...
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