Cape St Vincent, Battle of
Cape St Vincent, Battle of (14 February 1797) A naval battle off the south-west coast of Portugal in which
NELSON and
JERVIS defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet of 27 ships. The British were outnumbered almost two to one, but the disorder of the Spanish fleet cancelled out its advantage in numbers. After this victory the British fleet was able to continue its blockade of Cadiz and to re-enter the Mediterranean in pursuit of Napoleon in Egypt.
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Federalism or force: a sixteenth-century project for Eastern and Central Europe.
Magazine article from: Sarmatian Review; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...aspiring powers in the region: the Grand Duchy of Moscow on the one hand, and Sweden on...Lithuania brought conflict with Moscow as part of its "dowry." Indeed...in their protracted rivalry with Moscow, and a permanent union with Poland...
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Current U.S. policy of provoking Russia is fundamentally flawed.(INSIGHTS)
Magazine article from: Military Review; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Gradually, resistance to the Khan centered around the Grand Duchy of Moscow. In the 15th century, after many battles and...15th century to the beginning of the 18th, the Grand Duchy of Moscow expanded its power base until Russia became a recognized...
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Ukraine's Independent Spirit
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/5/2004; 585 words
; ...eastern powers: the Ottoman Empire, the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Crimean Tatar Khanate and the grand duchy of Moscow. By the 19th century, after joining the Swedes in a disastrous war with Russia, most of the country had been...
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The conquest of a continent; Siberia and the Russians.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2008; 470 words
; ...the Russian conquest of Siberia. He begins his story with the Mongol invasion and its role in the rise of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and continues through to an assessment of the Soviet legacy in Siberia. Much of the tale concerns infrastructure...
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 "The Moscow Times (Russia)")
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Clean Living In Finland's Seaside Capital, THE MOSCOW TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Moscow Times (Russia); 12/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; Catherine Santore The Moscow Times (Russia) 12-30-2003 The...world away from Smolensky Passazh in Moscow is the mammoth Stockmann on 52 Aleksanterinkatu...who made the country an autonomous grand duchy after taking it over in 1809. The...
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Nordic roots distinguish state from Slavic neighbors.(World)(Briefing/Eastern Europe)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 4/2/1996; ; 522 words
; ...the other Baltic states, came under its control. But that just led to closer relations with the Grand Duchy of Finland, which also was run by Moscow for 100 years through the 19th century. After the collapse of the Russian czarist empire in World...
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Russian brutality leaves EU facing a diplomatic dilemma
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 12/8/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...bloc needs Moscow more than Moscow needs Brussels. In concrete...already being flouted since Moscow imposed taxes on exported...Russia and was once a Russian Grand Duchy, there are no plans for any trips to Moscow and even the Finns appear...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Saviour Stewart; Marcus grabs late winner to spare blushes for Burley men.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/16/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...i t arrived on a sultry evening in the Grand Duchy. Last year George Burley's side triumphed in Moscow and Helsingborg in a wide- eyed mystery...goalless draw in Russia against Spartak Moscow in 1992. Eventually, though, the pressure...
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From White Ruthenians to Belarusians: the sources of Belarusian national idea/Od Rusinow Bialych do Bialorusinow: U erodel bialoruskiej idei narodowej.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Sarmatian Review; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...the right bank of the Dnieper were ceded to Moscow), the population of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which included today's Belarus...the eighteenth century. It was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that included Lithuanian, Belarusian...
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Poland: Where the West met the East.(Polish art will be exhibited in the US)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Europe with borders stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea and from Silesia almost to Moscow. It was composed of the crown (Poland) and the grand duchy (Lithuania), and its diverse population - a result of its geography and shifting political...
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grand duchy of Moscow
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
grand duchy of Moscow state existing in W central Russia from...mid-16th cent., with the city of Moscow as its nucleus. Its formation and eventual...other princes. According to tradition, Moscow was founded on a strategic site on the...
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Moscow, Grand Duchy of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Moscow, Grand Duchy of Historic Russian state. Centred on the trading centre of Moscow , in the late 15th century it emerged from Mongol and Tatar rule as the centre of a unified Russian state, defeating the principality of Novgorod and absorbing part of Lithuania.
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Moscow
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...mentioned in the Russian chronicles in 1147. Moscow became (c.1271) the seat of the grand dukes of Vladimir-Suzdal, who later assumed the title of grand dukes of Moscow (see Moscow, grand duchy of ). During the rule of Dmitri Donskoi...
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Lithuania and Lithuanians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...successors were known as Grand Dukes. When Tatars overran...the East, the Grand Duchy expanded into the territory...challenged the Grand Duchy of Moscow as the "collector of...Russian lands." Faced by Moscow's growing strength...Lithuania since 1926, and Moscow directed ...
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Suzdal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...central European Russia, NE Moscow. Its major industry is tourism...as an important city of the grand duchy of Vladimir-Suzdal (see Vladimir...In 1451, Suzdal passed to the grand duchy of Moscow. Landmarks include an ancient...
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