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    Historical Commission. The French founded the fort in 1717, naming it for Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse. In order to counter the growing influence...
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    Mission de Saint-Joseph in the 1680s. Allouez ministered to the local Native Americans, who were primarily Odawa and Ojibwe. The French built the fort in 1691...
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    contains a town wall, four forts (including the Fort des Trois-Têtes and Fort du Randouillet), the Redoute des Salettes, the ouvrage de la communication Y, as...
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    of the historic and cultural region of Franche-Comté, Besançon is home to the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regional council headquarters, and is an important...
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    Comte de Frontenac appointed Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, who began visiting Kekionga in 1702, and would later build the original Fort Miami...
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    "Angola under the Portuguese: The Myth and the Reality" by Gerald J. Bender where Bender, a Professor in the School of International Relations at the University...
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    [citation needed] Several places are named after de Coligny: Coligny, South Africa Fort Coligny, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Châtillon-Coligny, in France Coligny...
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    is again similar with our fleurs-de-lis, that is to say exclusively the one from the river Luts whose white petals bend down too when the flower blooms...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    several islands and sandbanks in a bend of the Seine. Of those, two remain today: Île Saint-Louis and the Île de la Cité. A third one is the 1827 artificially...
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    Miami people (section Forts)
    and, in 1704, establishing a trading post and fort at Kekionga, present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, the de facto Miami capital which controlled an important...
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    relieving pressure on Catalonia and in Franche-Comté. En route, the Spanish troops, under Francisco de Melo, laid siege to the fortified town of Rocroi...
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  • Viscount Dupplin Duquesne, Pennsylvania – Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville (indirectly, via Fort Duquesne) Durand, Michigan – George H. Durand (U.S. Representative)...
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  • a label, bend, bordure, etc. A common case of augmentations of honour are French cities having in their arms a chief Azure, three fleurs de lys or, also...
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    Darcy DeGray Lake ("sandstone") De Roche (of the rock) Deberrie Decatur Delaplaine (Of-the-plains, surname) Departee Devue Des Arc ("At the bend") Dumas...
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  • Kaavi Turkansaari, Oulu Musée de plein air des maisons comtoises, Nancray, Doubs, Franche-Comté Musée de plein air de Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Villeneuve-d'Ascq...
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    under the command of Paul Marin de la Malgue was building a road between Fort Presque Isle, Fort Le Boeuf, and Fort Machault.: 156  The deserters had...
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  • during the Great Northern War. Skirmish at Bender 1 February - Ottomans kick out Swedes from Moldavia Battle of Fort Neoheroka 20–23 March - Major Tuscarora...
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    Cockpit Point January 11 Battle of Lucas Bend – First deployment of Union ironclads February 6 Battle of Fort Henry February 10 Battle of Elizabeth City...
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    Fortress of Luxembourg (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    five times in the 18th century Rue Bender, after Blasius Columban von Bender, governor from 1785 to 1795 Rue du Fort Wedell On the Kirchberg plateau: Rue...
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    pp. 23–190 Jean Baerten (1962). "Le comté de Haspinga et l'avouerie de Hesbaye (IXe-XIIe siècles)". Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire. 40 (4): 1149–1167...
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    Courmes, priest, "Bénéficier en l'Église Catédralle de Grasse" received arms in 1696. « Vert, a bend or » Boulevard Courmes, 06530 Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne...
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    Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle built Fort Miami at present-day St. Joseph. In 1691, the French established a trading post and Fort St. Joseph along the...
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    Horseshoe Bend. Despite those successes, the British continued to repel American attempts to invade Canada, and a British force captured Fort Niagara and...
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  • Holmes Road, There is a right hand bend about 300 metres (yards) north of Whistlepipe Ct, then a gradual left hand bend. The location is between these two...
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    Hallstatt culture (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    western Hallstatt zone includes: northeastern France: Burgundy, Franche-Comté, Champagne-Ardenne, Lorraine, Alsace northern Switzerland: Swiss plateau...
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    Jean Delville (category Prix de Rome (Belgium) winners)
    near Porte de Hal. The Delville family later moved to St Gilles where Delville began his schooling at the Ecole Communale in rue du Fort. Delville took...
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    (South Lancashire Regiment) 1917-02-2525 February 1917 Alqayat-al-Gaharbigah Bend, Mesopotamia Ivor Rees South Wales Borderers 1917-07-3131 July 1917 Pilkem...
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    Battle of Krasnoi (category Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe)
    Antoine Fort | La Division Ricard au combat de Krasnoe le 18 novembre 1812, 9 h. du matin | Images d'Art". D. Buturlin (1824) Histoire militaire de la campagne...
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    Lamar, for French heroes Napoleon Bonaparte and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. The family had connections with other families throughout Georgia...
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  • November 17 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594) 1643 – Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, French general (b. 1602) 1648 – Thomas Ford, English viol player...
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