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Eine amerikanische Militärgeneral, trat in die Reihen der Kolonisten unter Washington während des Unabhängigkeitskrieges ein, zeichnete sich in mehreren Gefechten aus, wurde zum Rang eines Generals befoerdert, verhandelte mit dem englischen General Clinton , um eine wichtige Stellung, der ihm anvertraut wurde , aufzugeben, entkam in die Englisch Reihen nach der Entdeckung seiner Raenke, und diente England gegen sein Land; Starb in England im Jahr 1801.
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A duchy of N. Germany, between Holstein and Mecklenburg, was annexed to Prussia in 1876.
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A victim of the Star-Chamber in the time of Charles I., and exposed on the pillory as well as fined and imprisoned; joined the Parliamentary ranks and fought for the Commonwealth, but as an Independent indulged in violent harangues against Cromwell, and was committed to the Tower, but on his release turned Quaker (1618-1657).
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Chief town in the dep. of Haute-Vienne, on the Vienne River, 250 m. S. of Paris; has a Gothic cathedral; is one of the chief manufacturing towns of France. Its porcelain and woollen cloths are widely famed; it has a large transit trade; it gives name to a fine kind of surface enamel, which was brought to perfection there.
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Title given to certain counts of the old German empire who had the rank of princes.
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A deacon of the Church at Rome, who suffered martyrdom in the time of Valerian, 258, by being broiled on a gridiron, which he is represented in Christian art as holding in his hand.
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Proclaimed Charlemagne emperor of the West in 800; driven in 799 from the papal chair by a conspiracy, he was reinstated by Charlemagne, who next year visited the city and was crowned by him emperor.
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A village 13 m. from Charleroi, where Napoleon defeated Blucher two days before the battle of Waterloo while Wellington and Marshal Ney were engaged at Quatre Bras.
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Brilliant French mathematician, contemporary of Lagrange and Laplace, born at Toulouse; obtained the professorship of Mathematics in the Military School at Paris, and was elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1783; he was one of the commissioners to determine the length of the metre, and held many posts under the Republic and the Empire; among many works his best known is the "Elements of Geometry" (1794), translated into English by Carlyle (1752-1833).
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Educationist, born in Southwark, and founder of the Monitorial System; had a chequered career, died in poverty (1778-1838).
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